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Recommended Reading: Mynette Louie’s “Innovate Or Die”

It took me a week but I finally caught up with Mynette Louie’s IFP Blog Post “Innovate Or Die“.  She does an excellent job at capturing the Indie Producer’s life at this point in our cultural era.  More importantly, she makes a fantastic and necessary plea to us all:

“let’s put our  heads together and figure out how to sustain not only ourselves, but ultimately, the art that we love so dearly, and the diversity of artistic voices that make it. There is a better way, and we’ve got to find it soon.”

Read the whole post here.

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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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