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

So Many Good Ideas (and some not so good ones too!)

Half Bakery is full of them.  You should definitely get a smile out of many.  You could also lose an hour at work surfing through them.  Some would definitely make this world a better place.

The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression.

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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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