After Slamming Studios and Streamers at Locarno, a Less Frenetic Ted Hope Reflects on the Strikes, Indie Industry Ways Forward

Locarno can’t get enough of Ted Hope. Five years after receiving the festival’s Raimondo Rezzonico Award, the producer of modern indie classics such as “The Wedding Banquet” and “The Ice Storm” shook things up yesterday at Locarno’s StepIN think tank with an Out of the Box keynote, a sweeping blast on the state of the industry.

Hope began as an independent producer fostering the early careers of such filmmakers as Ang Lee, Todd Soldonz and Hal Hartley. “I arrived at the perfect moment when the international sales market was blossoming and was very U.S.-centric,” he said, with bracing honesty. Hope sees the ongoing strikes as much as an opportunity as a crisis. “When I left Amazon, I had this big dream. How to build a better mousetrap. People would like to believe that the market, the electoral system, and collective bargaining would always lead to the best results, but many, particularly younger people, have come to realize that’s just not the case. We’ve seen the destruction of the environment and the collapse of the social contract.

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