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

Is So Much Choice Really Any Choice At All?

So many people want to “keep their options open” as opposed to actually committing themselves to something they really believe in. We fill our shelves with 1001 variations and some people think it is freedom, but doesn’t it just obscure the real problem that we haven’t committed to what we really want?

(image via Flavorpill & Brian Ulrich)

Of course having extremely limited choice is far from freedom too.

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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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