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

Introduction

I have been blasting a handful of you about the things I encounter at the intersection of Intellectual Property Rights, Content Creation, The Law, Liberty, and General Net Surfing.  After getting a couple of requests to open up the circle, I migrating the blast to this blog.  I definitely could use some help stocking this blog, so let me know if you have some ideas.  

It is my sincere hope to be able to retire this blog within the year.  There are many sites covering similar ground AND doing it much better.  I will do my best to advise you of them as I come by them.  I see this as sort of a mutual education action: if we all become sufficiently knowledgeable about the issues in a reasonable time,  we will take action, results will occur, and we can all direct our attention elsewhere.  Until then, thanks for coming by.

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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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Now you can learn hands on with Ted at the new entertainment program at ASU Thunderbird.

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