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The MOST Useful HopeForFilm Post Ever

Is it? I am not sure how to measure this.  But not only do I find myself frequently going back to it, every time I see a movie I love or one that is lacking I go back to this post for contemplation.  I really should call it in the plural too because I did write an extension of it.

What transforms mediocre into good? Isn’t that one of the core questions for any creative person? Isn’t it how we evaluate the work before us?  Today I will be speaking in Amsterdam on ”  ” and then afterwards I will be hosting the second discussion on “ReInvent Hollywood”.  This one is the current state of being a filmmaker and the specific changes we all face.  They dovetail together pretty well, but damn, I am going to be exhausted come nightfall. The question of survival and sustainability are key to creation, but in the end it still always come down to the work and how do you make it better.

These lists are my attempt to answer those questions:

 32 Qualities Of Better Film: http://bit.ly/1bwmr6c

+ 5 more: http://bit.ly/1gjyJmd

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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.

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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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