# Ted Hope

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Ep05 - ‘Getting Out Of Your Own Way’ With Golden Globe Winner & Two Time Oscar Nominee, Ross Katz

From a struggling working class family in Philadelphia to Steven Spielberg reading out his name at the Oscars, we speak to Ross Katz about his upbringing and the struggles he faced after dropping out of school, his dealings with depression and lack of finances, all whilst trying to learn his craft …

Ted Hope, Hope For Film: the rebirth of independent cinema

The Cinematography Podcast Episode 352: Ted Hope Producer Ted Hope has worked in the film business for over 40 years, producing dozens of features with several Academy Awards nominations and wins. After leaving Amazon Studios in 2020, Hope went back to his roots as an independent producer and bega…

What America Loses if WB and Paramount Merge

Special two-part episode of the podcast this week! The big news in Hollywood this week has been the burgeoning effort by Hollywood creatives to fight the purchase of Warner Bros. by Paramount Skydance. Thousands of names—including some of the biggest in the business—have signed an open letter in …

The scrappy, indie production of Hunting Matthew Nichols

Hunting Matthew Nichols is an indie horror film that’s shot as a mockumentary/found-footage movie about a documentary filmmaker investigating her brother's disappearance 20 years earlier on Vancouver Island. Writer/producer Sean Harris Oliver and DP Justin Sebastian shot the horror film in 12 days,…

The Amateur Pornographer with Chris Monger and Ted Hope

Christopher Monger, a Welsh native, was fresh off the Miramax release of his film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain starring Hugh Grant. His next project was to shoot in a small town in Wales, and producer Ted Hope felt it was a sure thing. The Amateur Pornographer was near…

Backlot—The Amateur Pornographer Table Read

It's been over 25 years since Matthew Rhys first read the script of The Amateur Pornographer. This project broke the heart of writer-director Christopher Monger. In this special Backlot episode, actor Matthew Rhys, along with Ian McNiece and Meryn Williams Davies, share and read two scenes from the…

Mistura: "In live screenings, appropriately, we give people a warning before they watch it that this film may—and will—make you hungry."

In this vHopeful Conversations episode, I speak with producer Ivan Orlic about Mistura, his first Spanish-language feature and first film set entirely in his home country of Peru. Together they explore how the 1960s‑set story of Norma, a high‑society woman cast out after her husband leaves her, bec…

Episode 0081 Ted Hope-Producer-CEO, FANDOR

TED HOPE CEO, Fandor “Perhaps no film exec is better qualified to brainstorm ideas for saving indie films than Ted Hope” – Variety, 1/27/21 In June 2020, TED HOPE resigned as Co-Head of Movies at Amazon Studios, where he oversaw the prestige movies produced, developed and acquired by the company…

Business of Film: The New Rules of Film Financing: AI, Gen Z, and Getting Your Movie Made | What we learnt from Cannes and What Movie Distributors Actually Want!

Filmmakers! Welcome back to a very special Business of Film edition of The Filmmakers Podcast. Today, we are cutting through the absolute nonsense and delivering a survival guide for how to fund, produce, and sell an independent film in the current market. Host Giles Alderson is joined by an expe…

The Most Insidious AI Narrative: We Can't Shape the Future

Artificial intelligence is reshaping work, creativity, business, and society faster than ever before, but how worried should we really be? In this episode, we sit down with The AI Doc producers Charlie Tyrell and Ted Tremper to discuss the biggest lessons they learned after spending years investig…