The blog for aspiring & established filmmakers of independent films. by ted hope.

Recommended Reading: This Guy Can Draw!

David Weisner is one of the top children book writers EVER!  Or should I say “draw-er”.  His books have very few words, but his imagination soars.  They often start quite simply, but then they take you to a completely other place.  You can be very young when you first read them, but even once you get all tall and grey, they will keep you young when you read them.

Flotsam is my current fave, as it features the picture-within-a-picture-within-a-picture principal that I am a 100% sucker for.  That said Sector 7 is pretty rocking too, what with it’s tale of the clouds total revolution over the bland regime.  And it’s gonna make a heck of a movie too (cuz I’m making it!  — that is, with quite a bit of help from my friends…)

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Hope offers his unique perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art while staying true to yourself.

Meet Ted

Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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