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How To Bounce Back From A Bad Experience
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How To Make Sure You Are Ready For The Coming Sh*tstorm
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This List Will Change Your Life
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The Coming Cinema Apocalypse (Is Here)
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Unlock The Power Of Loving What You Do
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It Is Time For Doc & Indie Filmmakers To Abandon The Global VOD Platforms
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Cinema Ecosystem

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The GOOD Things: Some Additional Add-Ons
The initial list only had 29; this is how we got to 54.
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We Have Plenty Left To Improve In Today's Cinema Ecosystem
Our series on all that currently is GOOD & BAD in Cinema, continues with Part Seven-- the final one (before the one that follows that one, and the one…
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We Need To Rebuild -- And Build It Back Better
Part Six in All That Is Good & Bad In The FKAFilmBiz 2024
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There's A Lot We Can Do In The Year To Come
Part Five Of All The Good & Bad In Our Current Cinema Ecosystem
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Piling More Bad On The Pile Of All We Ignore And Then Ignore Some More
Part Four in HFF's All The Good & Bad In 2024 The Cinema Ecosystem
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Distribution

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The HopeForFilm Non-Dependent Distribution Masterclass, 2024 edition
14 deep dives on 2024's most critical subject for the FKATFB
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Cinema’s Secret Formulas: How To Build An Audience
#2 in a series of short riffs on giant concepts
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Cinema’s Secret Formulas: The Closed Triangle Of Audience Elevation
A new series of big ideas in a small bite.
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What Should The Non-Dependent Filmmaker Be Most Concerned About Right Now?
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” ― William Blake
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Non-Dependent Distribution Tactics & Recommendations, 2024
Part 10 on the new model
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Film Financing

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How To Kill Off Private Equity Investment In Independent Film in America
(And Thus One Of The Most Vibrant Sectors Of Our Culture)
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Stop Financing Movies (Unless You Finance Marketing & Operational Improvements Too)!
How To Build The Non-Dependent Film Ecosystem, Pt 3
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How To Attract Financing To Your Film Project
Why is there a magnetic pull to some projects and not others?
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How To Return Investment In First Features To Something Other Than Philanthropy, Pt 2 of 2
Other models and my recommendation for a solution (until I hear better).
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How To Return Investment In First Features To Something Other Than Philanthropy, Pt 1 of 2
Our ecosystem needs a steady flow of new filmmakers, but the industry blocks it.
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Masterclasses

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The HopeForFilm Non-Dependent Distribution Masterclass, 2024 edition
14 deep dives on 2024's most critical subject for the FKATFB
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