[…] Last December, I was fortunate enough to have an in-depth interview with movie producer Ted Hope, who is leading the charge to give the indie film business what he calls a “systems reboot.” If there is a person best suited for this task, it’s Ted. You can go here to read his Wikipedia page for a detailed background, but the highlights include dozens of movies which he has produced including The Ice Storm, Happiness, American Splendor, 21 Grams, The Savages, Adventureland, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and many more, 23 of which have been selected for the Sundance Film …read more […]

[…] Some foreign countries have decent “soft money,”  available in the form of government grants and the like. If you can connect with a producer in one of those countries, you may be able to tap into that as a co-production. Sometimes you can fund your entire budget that way. But you will likely have to shoot most of your project in that country. There is some soft money (grants) in the US, as Ted Hope mentions in The Blacklist blog, Go into the Story5. […]