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

Change Your Shirt

You probably know Michel Gondry from either his Lego videos or solving Rubik’s Cubes with either his feet or nose.  He also is responsible for popularizing “swedes” — the home made lo-fi versions of popular films.  He’s been making movies and videos forever and is always great.  Here he takes a simple idea — a shirt with one pattern on the front and another on the back — and weaves a very complicated dance out of it.  Make sure to stay to the end as it gets close to glorious.

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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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