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Starting Out

"Some job opportunities in Indie Film"
A webinar or podcast from before I knew what those were.
 • Ted Hope
What You Should Know BEFORE You Launch Your Career In The Cinema Industries
A HFF Masterclass on "Starting Out"
 • Ted Hope
The New Era Filmmaker's Guide To Today's Realities
50+ Tactics & Recognitions regarding what we do when NOW is when we are trying to make it all work
 • Ted Hope
When You Can’t Find a Seat at the Table
This Friday's HFF Takeover #19
 • Ellis J. Sutton
Resources: Starting Out
A guide to what others have recommended for those that are now entering the culture industries.
 • Ted Hope
Cinema's Secret Formulas: How to advance up the professional ladder
The most obvious thing is often regularly neglected, alas.
 • Ted Hope
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).
 • Ted Hope
How To Make Stuff Happen
A HopefulConversation with Joe Lewis on Indie TV & the big picture today on the small screen
 • Ted Hope
Check it out! The Rushfield Lunch with yours truly.
A recording from Ted Hope and Richard Rushfield's live video. Woohoo!
 • Ted Hope and Richard Rushfield
53:47
How to get hired on a great 1990's NYC indie
and other tales from those who lived them.
 • Ted Hope and Gretchen McGowan
Cinema's Secret Formulas: Why Change Is Slow
#3 in a series.. and the return of LP&W's
 • Ted Hope
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
 • Ted Hope
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