Ted Hope

Ted Hope born 1962 is an American independent film producer based in New York City He is best known for cofounding the productionsales company Good Machine where he produced the first films of such filmmakers as Ang Lee Nicole Holofcener Todd Field Michel Gondry Moisés Kaufman and Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini Hope then cofounded This is That with several associates from Good Machine He later worked at the San Francisco Film Society and Amazon Studios Among Hopes twentythree Sundance entries are three Grand Jury Prize winners American Splendor 2003 The Brothers McMullen 1995 and What Happened Was 1994 American Splendor also won the FIPRESCI Award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival the Critics prize at the 2003 Deauville Film Festival and was nominated for five Spirit Awards and one Academy Award Hope has also produced two Sundance Opening Night selections Nicole Holofceners Friends with Money 2006 and Moises Kaufmans The Laramie Project 2002 which was nominated for five Emmys In 2013 IndieWire named Hope to its inaugural list of Influencers The Hollywood Reporter cited Hope and his partners at This is That among the twentyfive most powerful people in the Independent Film business Description above from the Wikipedia article Ted Hope licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia