Veteran indie producer Ted Hope opened Locarno’s industry symposium Thursday afternoon with a provocative keynote where he declared: “The indie film system is fucked.” The talk, titled Indie Films:…
Hope has made similar assessments in the past. In 1995, the producer, best known for launching the careers of indie filmmakers such as Ang Lee, Nicole Holofcener, Todd Field, and Michel Gondry, published the seminal essay Indie Film is Dead. Today, however, Hope said his past thesis wasn’t quite right. At the time, he said he hadn’t realized that there has never been “such thing as a stable indie film system.
“The goal is to delight the customers, and people want to see themselves and their issues portrayed,” he said. “You cannot rely on what has worked before. But when you sit down with any buyer of a corporation that is still 100% what they’re thinking. I think that is a recipe for failure.”The Wedding Banquet
Later during the session, Hope turned his attention to the two current strikes in Hollywood against the studios, one by the WGA and one by SAG-AFTRA. The producer said one of the most significant battle lines between the studios and striking workers is around the transparency of data from streamers and the studios.
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