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Stay Inside Today & Make Yourself Eligible For A Film/Video Grant From Creative Capital

Seriously, so what if it is warm and sunny and you need to wash away your winter blues. An opportunity like this comes around, well, once every three years. That’s not every day, so you better get cracking. The deadline to submit just the “Letter of Inquiry” is March 1st and…

You can learn more about Creative Capital’s Film/Video & Visual Arts grant here. You can access the guidelines here. And you can apply here.

Seriously though, we live in a country where the arts are not recognized as either a cultural necessity or an economic force. That will not change until we demand it. One measure of that demand is the number of applications. Creative Capital is a fabulous organization. I am thankful we have them to help.

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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.

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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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