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Raindance Film Festival
The biggest indie film festival in the UK, showcasingshorts, features, web series, music videos and VR
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5 Confessions Filmmakers Never Admit Even To Themselves
As someone who has been making films and working with screenwriters and filmmakers for over a quarter century my own personal experience is that for most the fear of making or writing a movie is real. In the early years of Raindance my own fear held me back. And it...
Raindance Founder Elliot Grove Selects His Festival Highlights
Elliot Grove is the founder of Raindance Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards. He has produced over 700 hundred short films and also five feature films, including the multi-award-winning The Living and the Dead in 2006, Deadly Virtues in 2013...
12 Types of People Who Attend Film Festivals
In order to get the most out of your film festival experience, it’s important to decide what your goal is before you attend, as how you spend your time will differ depending on what you want to get out of it – be in to meet a load of new people or to find inspiration by watching as many films as you can fit it. Here are the 12 types of people you’ll meet at film festivals – which type are you?