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1995: Indie Domination .... 2026: Secede From The Corporate Film Ecosystem

An unseen post from 30 years ago talks to its punk-ass wiseass offspring

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Ted Hope
Feb 04, 2026
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Today you get two posts for the price of one.

In 1995, I wrote this up Post #1 and faxed it off to Filmmaker Magazine for publication. They never got around to it. The fax went into one pile after another… that is until a month or two or three or so ago, Scott Macauley found it as he explored his archives.

Filmmaker published both last month in Scott’s fa…

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