Over a 35-year career, Ted’s been a producer on over 70 films, studio executive on over 60, CEO of a start-up streamer, co-head of 3 production companies, executive director of a film society and festival, a Professor Of Practice at 2 universities, and founder of a post-production facility, 2 websites, 2 think tanks, and an app. As a producer, his films have received 25 Oscar nominations, with 6 wins. He is one of two producers to have three of their films win the Sundance Grand Jury Award. Ted’s memoir Hope For Film, as well as his newsletter of the same name, are both must reads for all ilmmakers or those wanting to be.
Ted’s eye for directorial talent has helped launch the feature film careers of Ang Lee, Nicole Holofcener, Hal Hartley, and many others. His most recent films include three documentaries concerning democracy in this era of authoritarian power: Evgeny Afineevsky’s Ukraine War documentary Freedom On Fire, Marina Zenovich’s Jerry Brown: The Disrupter, and Vanessa Hope’s Invisible Nation on Taiwan, as well as the first narrative from Oscar-winning documentary director, Roger Ross Williams, Cassandro– which premiered at Sundance 2023 and currently enjoys a Rotten Tomato score of 100. Did we mention Ted launched Amazon’s foray into feature film production, co-running it for much of his tenure, leading them to 19 Oscar nominations and 5 wins?
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