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

Some Movies TRULY Improve The World

Two days before THE INVISIBLE WAR got an Oscar Nomination for Best Documentary (i.e. today), Congress announced it would hold a hearing on sexual abuse in the Military.

When it becomes more and more difficult for our mainstream media to examine complex issues in depth and with true soul, it is left to independent filmmakers to dig in and expose what our world is.  When done well,the world can not help but listen.  When it is done really well, the world begins to act.  It does get better.

The invisible becomes visible to us all.  Movies show us how to see the truth (as well as much much more).

Every Aspiring Filmmakers new best friend.

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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