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Short Courses
Take a look at our range of world-renowned
evening and weekend film training courses.
Raindance Film Festival
The biggest indie film festival in the UK, showcasing
shorts, features, web series, music videos and VR.
Raindance
The Home of Independent Film
Raindance is dedicated to fostering and promoting independent film around the world. Founded in 1992, it combines Raindance Film Festival, film training courses, and Raindance Higher Education.
Raindance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in the UK and it has been recognised by Variety as “one of the world’s top 50 unmissable film festivals”. Raindance showcases the boldest, freshest content from British and international filmmakers. Industry and the public attend cutting-edge panels, talks and workshops. Raindance is a qualifying festival for Oscars®, BAFTA and BIFA.
Our training courses are at the heart of the Raindance structure, aiming to give individuals the tools to start shooting their film, and covering screenwriting, production, directing, and virtual reality. Moreover, Raindance has developed three fully accredited Higher Education Film Programmes, becoming the only major film festival in the world to offer higher education.
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The 8 Best Disaster Films to Watch in Honour of World Meteorological Day
The disaster movie is one of the oldest genres in cinema. The earliest example can be seen in James Williamson’s 1901 silent short, Fire!, which shows a local fire service rescuing the occupants of a house being engulfed in flames. It shocked viewers from its very...
Interview with Joaquín Cambre, Director of A Trip to the Moon
Ahead of its UK release at the ICA this March, we sat down with Joaquín Cambre, director of Argentinian coming-of-age film A Trip to the Moon, which had its World Premiere at Raindance 2017. A Trip to the Moon is your debute feature film, but you had a long career in...
Making the Leap: From Documentaries to Directing Dramatic Feature Films
Over the course of my career I’ve written, produced and directed dozens of hours of non-fiction content for broadcast and cable television and multiple feature length documentaries, several of which received theatrical release. Non-fiction was my specialty. So, it was...