Ted Hope Lambasts Studios, Streamers at Locarno: ‘Two Film Unions Striking Proves the System is Unfair, Built to Be Unfair, & Industry Leaders Only Look Out for Themselves’

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Ted Hope, the veteran U.S. producer who has been in the indie trenches since 1990 when he founded Good Machine, the label behind Ang Lee’s “The Ice Storm” and Todd Solondz’s “Happiness” – but subse…

, the veteran U.S. producer who has been in the indie trenches since 1990 when he founded Good Machine, the label behind Ang Lee’s “The Ice Storm” and Todd Solondz’s “Happiness” – but subsequently leaped to the other side of the fence becoming head of motion picture production in the early days at Amazon Studios – delivered a provocative talk on Wednesday on the most pressing issues in the indie film industry.

– Media CEOs earn 9 figure salaries, while the industry’s creative talent workers need to take Uber gigs. – “The streaming ecosystem may eventually shrink to 4 major platforms. Then we’d have sacrificed cable only to replace it with a broadcast-style monopoly.” – Superhero flicks are mortally wounded and the overlords seem clueless as to what to fill the vacuum with.

Talking to the audience as 150 bullet points flashed up on a screen behind him, Hope also addressed the virtues of indie filmmaking; why an indie filmmaking system should not be dependent on global streamers and studios; indie first principles and tenets; and 19 possibilities to build a better future for the indie sector.

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