About Elliot Grove
Photo Credit Jay Brooks / BIFA 2015
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.
The 10,000 Hour Rule for Filmmakers
In 2008 Malcolm Gladwell published an influential book Outliers in which he unveiled his ten thousand hours rule for the first time. What is an outlier? According to one dictionary definition, an outlier is ‘something that is situated away from or classed...
The Anti-Resolutions of 2019: How Filmmakers Craft Attainable Goals
It’s time of year for resolutions. Each one of us says to our inner self: come on, you can do better. Try making an anti-resolution this year. Let me explain how to craft attainable goals that have a chance of success. My name is Elliot Grove. I’ve witnessed 27...
5 Things Elliot Grove Learned in 2018
New Year’s Eve and things might be quietening down. If you live in the north of England we hear that you’re being battered by the Beast From The East 2. I hope you are safe and sound. A quarter century since starting Raindance I’m still learning big...
