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You can't just bury your head in the sand, friend.

In fact, I suspect that doing so reveals your secret agenda.

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The Perfect Neighbor: "that street shows the best and worst of us. We’re in a deeply polarized time, and we’ve been polarized on purpose…

A vHopeful Conversation with filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir about Oscar and BAFTA-nominated feature documentary, 'The Perfect Neighbor,' and her…

Feb 10 • Vanessa Hope

The relationship between America’s current political situation and the collapse of Hollywood, Indie, and our cinema ecosystem

– and what you need to do about it now and next.

Feb 9 • Ted Hope

Our Needed Side Hustles: Festival Consultant

Create the jobs we need for the new NonDē Cinema Ecosystem

Feb 8 • Ted Hope

Hope: then, now, and forever?

Can I give you an overload of Tedness?

Feb 7 • Ted Hope

Les Barbares: "I wanted to make a hopeful film... I have a kid and I don’t want him growing up in such a bleak world. There’s so much hate…

a vHopeful conversation with Director, Writer, Actress Julie Delpy about her excellent new comedy and why we feel she is one of the world's best…

Feb 6 • Vanessa Hope

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We've got each other

Feb 5 • Tom Violett

Join me today (in an hour!)... live, virtually, or just in spirit.

let's speak truth about power, be it in TheFKATheFilmBiz, culturally, or in politics.

Feb 4 • Ted Hope

Top posts

Substack’s Cinema Community has arrived!

Jan 29, 2025 • Ted Hope

Resources: Will any of these 200+ companies finance your movie?

Jul 9, 2025 • Ted Hope

Hey Mom, Dad... I am addicted to FilmStack!

Dec 24, 2025 • Ted Hope

In preparation for the coming revolution of The Return Of The Microbudget Film

Jul 13, 2025 • Ted Hope

How To Bounce Back From A Bad Experience

Jun 28, 2023 • Ted Hope

Hope For Film

Hope For Film

We need a vibrant alternative to mainstream culture, especially a non-dependent cinema ecosystem. Let's build it together & examine what got us here in the first place -- including how we can each build our own sustainable & generative creative practices.

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and if you do it right you won't hate yourself

Jan 29 • Sean King O’Grady

Can we inspire you with some "Dangerous Ideas"?

I’m curating Slamdance’s Market Monday this year!

Jan 20 • Ted Hope

Invisible Nation: for China to "take (Taiwan), you’d need the largest amphibious invasion in human history...The idea that China can just…

Promoting Facts, Truth and Media Literacy in this age of Information Warfare, a vHopeful Conversation with Chris Horton and Wen Liu from Taiwan

Jan 15 • Vanessa Hope and Ted Hope

Hey Mom, Dad... I am addicted to FilmStack!

A taxonomy of your latest obsession to help your friends & family get hooked

Dec 24, 2025 • Ted Hope

The best is yet to come... How do we work together to TRULY help each other out?

And at the moment I am JUST talking about cinema & FilmStack, but...

Dec 3, 2025 • Ted Hope

Resources

Who are all the US Theatrical Distributors?

The list has been changing rapidly lately, hasn't it? What's up with that?

Jan 12 • Ted Hope

So what does it really mean to have Filmmaker-Led Distribution? And who can you hire to make it work?

This is that HopeForFilm Field Guide To DaaS Providers -- that's Distribution as a Service, friends!

Dec 15, 2025 • Ted Hope

Jon Reiss' treasure chest of #Resources

Today's Thursday HFF TAKE OVER comes to you on a Friday, as over in these still-United States we had a little holiday pause.

Nov 28, 2025 • Jon Reiss-8Above

Resources: Film Financing, vol 1

What FilmStack has to say about finding money for your movie

Nov 8, 2025 • Ted Hope

Resources: Current Microcinemas & Underground Film Circuits

A WIP list of those that play NonMainstream cinema... in small venues.

Oct 18, 2025 • Ted Hope

Film Financing

The Many Benefits of Staged Fundraising For NonDē Distribution, Marketing, Impact, & Outreach

Chapter 14 Of The HFF INVISIBLE NATION Distribution / NonDē Exploration Case Study

Jan 26 • Ted Hope

Can the common questions filmmakers ask… lead us to a deeper understanding of what we actually need?

Is there a process where we can learn to ask the BETTER questions that help us more?

Dec 17, 2025 • Ted Hope

Resources: Film Financing, vol 1

What FilmStack has to say about finding money for your movie

Nov 8, 2025 • Ted Hope

Resources: Will any of these 200+ companies finance your movie?

And are these the companies that the agencies will submit your project to?

Jul 9, 2025 • Ted Hope

Returning to the scene of the crime

Are we all baby reindeer looking for the approval of those that prey on us?

Jun 4, 2025 • Ted Hope

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