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The FilmStack Manifesto v1.0 (and some accompanying tactics) perhaps?
Or is this just a recommended “Code Of Collaboration”?
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Ted Hope
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Our Irritation With Hollywood Isn't a Bug In the System...It's a Feature
Can we answer the question "What the hell happened to Hollywood?!" Tune in TODAY to find out.
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Zack Arnold, ACE
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From Taipei to LA: What I'm Bringing Home with Me
A cinematic dispatch on freedom, and finding the future in Taiwan
Published on Dream of a Better World • 
Takeover Smorgasbord
The first 15 HFF Takeovers, all in one handydandy place
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Ted Hope
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The Radical Act of the Artist.
Jennifer Esposito, director of FRESH KILLS takesover HFF for the day!
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Jennifer Esposito
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"The most fun we have ever had doing anything"
The co-directors (and star) of THE BLACK SEA, Crystal Moselle & Derrick B. Harden engage in another Hopeful Conversation about improvised filmmaking
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Ted Hope
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Imagine: the total & utter destruction of everything we have ever loved or admired
The devastation has become entirely possible -- and we need to think about it.
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Ted Hope
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This is the game that moves as you play.
Abandon the present for a new reality
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Ted Hope
Cinema's Secret Formulas: How to advance up the professional ladder
The most obvious thing is often regularly neglected, alas.
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Ted Hope
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Just a note to say...
I haven't eaten any plums
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Ted Hope
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Hello, Sh*tstorm, 2025 — how we make sure the sun shines brightly tomorrow
We may not be through it yet, but there is a new day rising and I have almost 50 techniques to make sure you stay on the sunnyside.
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Ted Hope
What is NonDē for?
Perhaps cinema needs a NonDē Manifesto now?
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Ted Hope
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