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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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20 practices to achieve an Optimum Production Mindset
My recommendations for those of you in -- or going into -- film production as a CAREER (or even a stepping stone to something else).
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Ted Hope
5
How To Make Stuff Happen
A HopefulConversation with Joe Lewis on Indie TV & the big picture today on the small screen
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Ted Hope
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Check it out! The Rushfield Lunch with yours truly.
A recording from Ted Hope and Richard Rushfield's live video. Woohoo!
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Ted Hope
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Richard Rushfield
4
53:47
How to get hired on a great 1990's NYC indie
and other tales from those who lived them.
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Ted Hope
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Gretchen McGowan
3
Cinema's Secret Formulas: Why Change Is Slow
#3 in a series.. and the return of LP&W's
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Ted Hope
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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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Ted Hope
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30+ Tactics I’d Use To Succeed If I Was Starting Out As A Cinema Producer Today
It ain’t easy out there on the path to producing!
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Ted Hope
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If I Was Starting Out Today As A Producer…
What the hell would I do???!
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Ted Hope
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Always Be Learning: Is This Our Most Important Practice?
Working hard on the easy things is how you learn to fly.
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Ted Hope
2
Pattern Recognition: How To Find More Of What You Love
And avoid the crap that you know you don’t like
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Ted Hope
3
I Need To Ask Again: "Why Did You Become A Producer, Ted?"
Part 2 of 2
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Ted Hope
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