About Elliot Grove
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 and AMBER in 2017. He teaches screenwriting and producing in the UK, Europe, Asia and America.
Elliot has written three books which have become industry standards: Raindance Writers’ Lab: Write + Sell the Hot Screenplay, now in its second edition, Raindance Producers’ Lab: Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking and Beginning Filmmaking: 100 Easy Steps from Script to Screen (Professional Media Practice).
In 2009 he was awarded a PhD for services to film education.
7 Things Filmmakers Should Eat For Breakfast
Have you ever had a serious case of the blahs about 3:00pm? Have you ever watched the typing swim on the page? Have you missed a deadline because you crumpled with fatigue at the last barrier to completing a crucial project? Have you analysed your filmmakers...
How Filmmakers Avert These 5 Crowdfunding Disasters
Crowdfunding is as old as the hills. Collection plates at places of worship, street buskers with hats, iconic public edifices life London’s Albert Hall and New York’s Statue of Liberty were crowdfunded. Crowdfunding today is hitched to social media....
New Social Impact Webseries From NYC
I got this fascinating press release from a fellow Brit now living in New York. I was so impressed by her journey, and by the quality of her work I thought i’d print it here as a case study about a social impact web series, and also as a little Raindance plug to...
