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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.
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When Marketing Independent Film Starts: Five Tips
Most independent filmmakers wait to start the marketing process after the film is finished. I’d like to propose a different approach to market independent film. One that starts before the film is even written. Let’s back up a bit. You want to sell your...
Planning Disruptive Film Education: London Film Course Search
Most film students I meet tell me they decided to go to film school because they wanted to become a writer or director. They enter a higher education degree in writing or directing. Then they wonder why their skills are so incredibly unmarketable. And I ask them if...
The Tyranny Of The Holdover Meeting
Ask any filmmaker who has had a movie in movie theatres and they will tell you about the angst of the holdover meeting. The holdover meeting is the Monday morning meeting where the cinema owners decide if the film they screened over the weekend has had enough ticket...
