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Cinema's Secret Formulas: How to win Sundance.
Another excerpt from my book, Hope For Film.
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Ted Hope
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Anthony Kaufman
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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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Cinema's Secret Formulas: How our industry thinks to pick the project and then market it well (enough).
You might say it is the secret to Producers & Execs staying employed, but...
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Ted Hope
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Cinema's Secret Formulas: Why Non-corporate Cinema Has Tremendous Power
The 11th Secret Formula we've revealed!
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Ted Hope
Cinema's Secret Formulas: How to work with "The Best"... And....The5: 02.09.25 edition
Some weekend nudges and considerations
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Ted Hope
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Cinema's Secret Formulas: The Differential
#9: Our sales system is need of a major repair -- and the 01.26.25 Edition of The5
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Ted Hope
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Cinema's Secret Formulas: Why We Don't Think Clearly
We are onto the 8th in the series... And, of course, the latest edition of HFF's The Five
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Ted Hope
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Cinema's Secret Formulas: Why Artists/Entrepreneurs Need Better Routines
#7 in the series -- And the lastest edition of The Five
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Ted Hope
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Cinema's Secret Formulas: Why We Deliberately Don't Offer True Choice
AKA "The Consumer's Trap" (#6 in The Series)
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Ted Hope
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Cinema's Secret Formulas: When To Sell
#5 in the series, and another edition of LP&W of course!
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Ted Hope
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Cinema's Secret Formulas: Why We Do Not Improve Things In Our Cinema Ecosystem
#4 in the series, and again with a new set of LP&W's
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Cinema's Secret Formulas: Why Change Is Slow
#3 in a series.. and the return of LP&W's
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