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.
Why Screenwriters Should Attend Film Festivals
Let’s suppose you are the type of screenwriter who sits in your sweat pants at home every night eating pizza. You know. The screenwriter who writes and writes blissfully unaware of the brimming humanity swirling at your doorstep. And let’s suppose you are...
Film Festivals: Five Types
You have finished your film and now you want to get it out there under the noses of acquisition executives, right? But which film festivals do you send it to? There’s over five types of film festival, and with over 5,000 film festivals around the world,...
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...
