by Elliot Grove | 4 July, 2017 | Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion
It’s soon time for painful lessons here at Raindance. Let me explain. On the Labor day weekend in America (Labour Day if you are Canadian like me), we finalise the schedule for the Raindance Film Festival which means that a lot of filmmakers get let down because...
by Elliot Grove | 27 June, 2017 | Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion
One night when I was about 7 years old, I caught my mum sliding a quarter under my pillow. I had just lost a tooth and having caught my mum red-handed, I had to deal with having the Tooth Fairy myths busted. Later, when my daughters were born I always tried to create...
by Elliot Grove | 26 June, 2017 | Directing, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion, Producing
We meet many first time film directors here at Raindance Film Festival HQ. Directing your first movie is always a fantastically challenging experience. The process of getting your first movie onto the big screen can end in tears if you fall foul of the producer or the...
by Elliot Grove | 23 June, 2017 | Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion, Producing
Two huge civic celebrations of independence are coming up: July 1st is Canada’s 150 birthday – celebrating how they threw off the yoke of the British government, and July 4th – the day all Americans celebrate how a raggle-taggle gang of upstarts...
by Elliot Grove | 20 June, 2017 | Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion
Film festival roles have seen dramatic changes over the past two decades. Filmmakers struggle with distribution despite the power of the internet. Film festivals themselves seem to come and go – the festival attrition rate seems to be higher than ever. So what...
