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Hope For Film Speaking Tour

There is a lot to say
There is a lot to say

I have a lot to share with you.  I also have a lot of hope for film — and I am not just talking about copies of my book for you to pick up.  Anyway, you can hear it all directly from me as I will be on the road a lot over these next few months. Hopefully I will be coming to your town. If you happen to teach at a college, and I am coming through already, let me know, and maybe I can make an additional stop. If I am not passing through, and you’d like me to, let me know. Here’s a sampling of where I will be headed as well as the dates:

August 27 – San Francisco, CA,  730 PM at Books, Inc. in San Francisco at 2275 Market Street.

August 31 – Sunday. Telluride, Book signing at the SHOWshop at Brigadoon, 2P MT; Panel 3P MT at The Backlot; 100 West Pacific Ave.

Sept 9 – Toronto “The Role Of The Creative Producer” 11A EDT, 1 hr lecture w/ Q&A. Toronto International Film Festival.

Sept 10  – Toronto. “Festivals, Theatrical, & Digital Platforms” 330P EDT, panel discussion. Toronto International Film Festival. Info here.

Sept 16 – NYC, 10A, Bruno Walter Auditorium – 111 Amsterdam Avenue, IFP Independent Film Week (with Marc Schiller interviewing). Info here.

Sept 17 – NYC, Columbia University & NYU

Sept 20  – Houston, TX 10th ANNUAL BUSINESS OF FILM CONFERENCE Presented by Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP); Rice Media Center, On the campus of Rice University at the corner of University Blvd and Stockton Dr., Entrance 8

Sept 21 -23 – Salt Lake City – Sundance Catalyst Financiers’ Workshop

Oct 4 – Mill Valley,CA, 1230P PDT, Masterclass; Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael. Mill Valley Film Festival

Oct 17 -19 Santa Fe Independent Film Festival

Oct 20- Chicago, Northwestern Univ 1-230P

Oct 20 – Chicago International Film Festival, AMC River East 322 E Illinois St, Chicago, IL 60611, sometime in the evening…

Oct 24 – Los Angeles, Book Soup, 730PM

Oct 25 – Los Angeles Film Independent Filmmaker Forum 4P

Oct 30 – Memphis Independent Film Festival

Nov. 11 -15 – Napa Film Festival

Dec – Austin, TX, International Film Festival Summit

Some of this still needs details, I know.  It takes a lot to put this together and I will be adding to it as it shapes up and I have a spare moment.

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Meet Ted

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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