After Slamming Studios and Streamers at Locarno, a Less Frenetic Ted Hope Reflects on the Strikes, Indie Industry Ways Forward
variety.comJohn Bleasdale Guest Contributor 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.
It resonated hugely with senior European industry executives who are often now battling the very same issues which Hope zeroed in on. “It was an exercise in overload,” the former Amazon exec told Variety the day after he gave the 40-minute talk.
He used 150 bullet points distilled from his Substack, and talked entertainingly at one and the same time. “It’s hard to engage people in this conversation, if you don’t do something like that.
It gives me a lot of ammunition for my Gatling gun.” On Friday, Hope delivered a masterclass. Global media didn’t want to wait that long to capture more of his take on the need for an indie cinema reset.
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