Hope For Film

Hope For Film

Checking In!... with 2024's The Popcorn List's Films

A great new idea let's you know where it is headed.

Barbara Twist's avatar
Lela Meadow-Conner @mamafilm's avatar
Barbara Twist
and
Lela Meadow-Conner @mamafilm
Feb 08, 2025
∙ Paid

You might recall that last year we revealed the Popcorn List, a great new initiative to solicit from festival programmers some of the best undistributed films; think BlackLst but for completed movies. You might have been wondering what became of the films that made the first edition; I know I was. The cinema gods were no doubt smiling down upon us, beca…

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to Hope For Film to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
Barbara Twist's avatar
A guest post by
Barbara Twist
Currently @FilmFestivalAlliance, always @TwistFilms. These days, I'm thinking about the distribution crisis, anti-trust remedies, and how to get kids into movie theaters.
Subscribe to Barbara
Lela Meadow-Conner @mamafilm's avatar
A guest post by
Lela Meadow-Conner @mamafilm
Lela connects stories to audiences, and storytellers to opportunities. She’s a curator, creative producer and distribution consultant, the CEO of mamafilm, President of Art House Convergence and co-founder of The Popcorn List and rePROFilm.
Subscribe to Lela
© 2025 Ted Hope
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture