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IFT films get festival screening

Posted on June 4, 2013

Two short films made on the courses that the Independent Film Trust runs for disadvantaged people have been selected for a Cambridge festival! One is ‘My Vie‘, made by adults recovering from mental health problems (run with Portugal Prints, part of the charity Westminster Mind) The other is ‘Bob Marley‘, made on a course run … Read More

Raindance Filmmakers At Cannes 2013

Posted on June 4, 2013

Raindance has run a film school in London since 1992. Our motto is: We even run a revolutionary postgraduate film degree with Staffordshire University and the Independent film Trust. We know Raindance film courses work: At the Cannes Short Film Corner in 2013 there were 176 UK films listed. Of these: - 31  directors have done a … Read More

Latest Articles

How Independent Film Kept Me From Living In My Mother’s Basement

By in Filmmaking Career, Indie Tips

I didn’t go to university, I didn’t graduate from a liberal arts programme like so many of my colleagues and I certainly didn’t go to film school. I went to art school instead and graduated with a single marketable skill: Cire Perdu – lost wax bronze casting, the ancient art of the Greek. Other than … Read More

A 6 Second Movie

By in Filmmaking Tips, Indie Tips

Vine is a cellphone app that allows you to make movies that are only 6 seconds long. They loop and repeat. You can download the Vine app here. We made this Vine movie yesterday with the participants of the Saturday Film School in London. Make sure you click the mute icon to get sound. Welcome … Read More

I Will Find You and I Will Supervise You: Why Liam Neeson in Taken Would Make a Great Line Producer

By in Indie Tips

It’s a job that most people outside the film industry have never heard of, but, hands down, line producing is one of the most crucial, and most gruelling, roles on any film set. The line producer oversees the day-to-day operations on a shoot and is responsible for making sure everything gets done on time and … Read More

Household Items That Could Come in Handy During Film Production

By in Filmmaking Tips, Indie Tips, Producing Tips

When you’re budgeting for your film, regardless of genre or length, saving money is vital and getting that budget down to as little as possible can make or break the decision to get your film made. So we’ve compiled a list of things you can find around your house that may come in handy if … Read More

‘Ethnography Is A Legitmated Pornography’

By in Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion, Indie Tips

In the 1980s writer and film critic Bill Nichols made the provocative claim – that forms of documentary film are comparable to pornography. The camera never lies Nichols’ rather shocking statement refers primarily to ethnographic film, made by social scientists in order to demonstrate their field of research. Over time anthropological disciplines and film have … Read More

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Genderbender Or Genrebender: 10 Top Korean Films

By in Film Facts, In Our Opinion, Indie Tips

During the 1990s youthful Korean cinemagoers started to really delve into foreign film especially genre films. Most of the films Korea had been making at the time were social realist films in response to the censorship and suffering that they had been through up until the 1990s. So when these foreign genre films started getting … Read More

100 Years Of Film

By in Film Facts, In Our Opinion, Indie Tips

Jiroemon Kimura, the oldest man to ever live, has just recently passed away at the age of 116. When I first read about this I thought about how long of a time 116 years really is and how many historic events this man had lived through.  This also got me thinking about historic events that … Read More

The Best Of Bond

By in Film Facts, In Our Opinion, Indie Tips

James Bond has been gracing our screens since 1962, with an impressive twenty three films under his belt to his yellow swimming trunks!). We look at the top five Bond films. 5. The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton’s Bond was a departure from Roger Moore’s sexy, playful Bond. Instead, he depicted a grittier, tougher Bond than … Read More

Greatst Movies Never Made

15 Geeky Film Facts To Impress Your Mates With

By in In Our Opinion, Indie Tips

So you think you’re a film geek do you? Well lets see if you know any these weird, wonderful and downright random facts! 1. The Lunch Meeting To End All Lunch Meetings In 1994, a year before “Toy Story” was released in cinemas, Pixar’s original creative geniuses John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Pete Docter and Andrew … Read More

7 Things Writers Can Learn from Bartending

By in Indie Tips

  Hospitality service jobs, like bartending and serving, unites us all as broke artists. These jobs can both be incredibly fun and horribly humbling in one night. For the more observant individual, bartending can provide more than the ability to pay rent. There are essential creative and business skills that can be enhanced through bartending. … Read More

7 Things Writers Can Learn from Bartending

By in Indie Tips

  Hospitality service jobs, like bartending and serving, unites us all as broke artists. These jobs can both be incredibly fun and horribly humbling in one night. For the more observant individual, bartending can provide more than the ability to pay rent. There are essential creative and business skills that can be enhanced through bartending. … Read More

7 Things Writers Can Learn from Bartending

By in Indie Tips

  Hospitality service jobs, like bartending and serving, unites us all as broke artists. These jobs can both be incredibly fun and horribly humbling in one night. For the more observant individual, bartending can provide more than the ability to pay rent. There are essential creative and business skills that can be enhanced through bartending. … Read More

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