Indie Film is Dead: Producer Ted Hope Diagnoses the Business Climate of Independent Film

This article was originally published in our Fall, 1995 issue. It may look easy but sometimes it's pretty hard to keep coming up with the inspirational success stories we usually pack into Filmmaker. Credit card-financed movies leading to three-picture deals; Sundance hits transformed to Fox sitcoms; domestic box-office failures rescued by ticket-buying Parisian cineastes - there are only so many of these tales to go around. That's why we welcomed this opinionated piece by producer Ted Hope lame...