"The Biggest Challenge Facing Producers and the Film Industry at Large Is an Unhealthy Relationship to Labor": Producer Jesse Hope on A Love Song

Max Walker-Silverman’s A Love Song pits a pair of reconnected childhood sweethearts--both now widowed--against the backdrop of an intimate American West. Shot in rural Colorado in the midst of the COVID pandemic, the film required precautions in excess of what was stipulated in then-new union guidelines, necessitating everyone involved to enter and form a “bubble” for the duration of production. First-time producer Jesse Hope discusses the difficulties and rewards of such an approach and h...