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

Old School: A Universal Greeting

Yesterday, Wired pointed out one of the more simple inventions of Thomas Edison.  And it occurred yesterday 131 years ago.  Sure, Alexander Grahm Bell invented the telephone, but the wizard of Menlo Park came up with what we needed to really get the conversation started.   

Who gets the credit the for today’s variations (“Yo”, “‘s Up?”)?  Simple good ideas to put people at ease.

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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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