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

Film Going Is A Necessary & Political Act: Woodstock Trailblazer Acceptance Speech

Last month’s acceptance speech has been up online for a few weeks, but I just discovered it. Check it out, you can play it in the background as you wash the dishes, maybe even do a little dance to it.

But if you are going to just watch/listen to part of it, please check out part three.

Unfortunately, it gets cut off before you get to hear me thank my wife Vanessa, whom I wouldn’t do any of this without her love and support.

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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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