Hope For Film

Hope For Film

Home
Cinema Ecosystem
Creative Practice
Distribution
Film Festivals
The Five
Hopeful Conversations
How To
Masterclasses
Producing
Secret Formulas
Starting Out
Resources
Takeovers
Archive
About
Can we inspire you with some "Dangerous Ideas"?
I’m curating Slamdance’s Market Monday this year!
17 hrs ago • Ted Hope
Building Your Audience From Multiple Communities
Pt 13 Of The HFF Invisible Nation Distribution / NonDē Exploration Case Study
Jan 19 • Ted Hope
International Films were muchmuchmuch better than American movies in 2025
Someone has to say it.
Jan 18 • Ted Hope
Forgive The Haters
because sometimes, you've just got to share.
Jan 18 • Ted Hope
10 of the Boldest American Non-Corporate Fiction Feature Films, 2025 Edition
You can't be corporate and be truly bold (so I am not including those).
Jan 17 • Ted Hope
When A Movie Becomes A Movement
A HopeForFilm TakeOver post from Eli O. Timoner, the producer of the Oscar Shortlisted Doc Short "All The Walls Came Down"
Jan 16 • Eli Timoner
Invisible Nation: for China to "take (Taiwan), you’d need the largest amphibious invasion in human history...The idea that China can just…
Promoting Facts, Truth and Media Literacy in this age of Information Warfare, a vHopeful Conversation with Chris Horton and Wen Liu from Taiwan
Jan 15 • Vanessa Hope and Ted Hope
Sound of Falling: "this is the “unpitchable” film, because it’s about memory itself and how eruptive, associative, and non‑linear memory…
A vHopeful conversation with Mascha Schilinski, Writer, Director of the Oscar-shortlisted feature film from Germany
Jan 15 • Vanessa Hope and Ted Hope
Extremist: "Sometimes a work of art can reach people more deeply than a news report or a clip on social media because it gets into their…
A vHopeful conversation with Aleksandr (Sasha) Molochnikov, Writer, Director of the Oscar-shortlisted short film
Jan 14 • Vanessa Hope and Ted Hope
Belén:"The movement that freed Belén was collective, just as film is collective. The problem is when powerful people move forward without…
than oil." A vHopeful Conversation with the Oscar-shortlisted film's Writer, Director, Actress Dolores Fonzi
Jan 14 • Ted Hope and Vanessa Hope
Palestine 36: "“Today, you must rise to the challenge. We must rise to the challenge.” I said that every day. Then I got up and went to…
A vHopeful Conversation with the Oscar shortlisted film's writer/director Annemarie Jacir
Jan 13 • Ted Hope and Vanessa Hope
On Healing Lands, Birds Perch: "The film asks: how do children deal with the decisions of the previous generation, of this war? How do they…
A vHopeful Conversation with the Oscar-shortlisted Doc Short director Naja Lockwood
Jan 12 • Ted Hope and Vanessa Hope
© 2026 Ted Hope · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture