![[Book Review] Milestones in Cinema, by David Worth](https://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Milestones-in-Cinema-David-Worth.png)
by Baptiste Charles | 5 April, 2021 | Book Review
It is said that those who don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. Open the news, read up on history, and you may well find yourself sadly nodding in agreement. In the filmmaking world, the best storytellers who deal in images are rarely so bold as to...
![[Book Review] Film Production Management 101 (2nd Ed.), by Deborah Patz](https://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Film-production-management-101-deborah-patz.png)
by Baptiste Charles | 3 April, 2021 | Book Review, Producing
Film production management is a gigantic task: at the heart of show business, the business of dreams and glittering images, lies the messy reality of where the sausage is made, a film set. A film production needs to be a tight, well-oiled machine which enables every...
![[Book Review] Romantic Comedies, by Pamela Jaye Smith](https://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Romantic-Comedies-Pamela-Jaye-Smith.png)
by Baptiste Charles | 31 March, 2021 | Book Review
Aren’t romantic comedies cute? People fall in love, fall out love, meet-cutes happen, broken hearts mend, lovers cheat, and partners forgive… This is the genre where things go wrong in all the right ways. This is the magical place where the mysterious powers of love...
![[Book Review] The Power of the Dark Side, by Pamela Jaye Smith](https://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Power-of-the-Dark-Side-Pamela-Jaye-Smith.png)
by Baptiste Charles | 28 March, 2021 | Book Review
Who doesn’t love a good villain? Audiences love a good villain. The best ones can strike a chord in our imagination like few heroes can, resonate with members of the audience individually, and make a mark in the culture at large. If you think of the role of the Joker...
![[Book Review] Producing with Passion, by Dorothy Fadiman and Tony Levelle](https://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Producing-with-Passion.jpg)
by Baptiste Charles | 27 March, 2021 | Book Review
“Movies can change the world” is a sentence so worn-out, it often feels entirely void of its meaning. As soon as it reaches your ears, you want to object that making movies that could, maybe, change the world are beyond your grasp. It takes money, time, resources,...
![[BOOK REVIEW] The Script-Selling Game, by Kathie Fong Yoneda](https://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/The-Script-Selling-Game-Kathie-Fong-Yoneda.png)
by Baptiste Charles | 23 August, 2020 | Book Review
Each screenwriter’s aspiration is for the story to get bought, produced and put on the screen. Yet most of what screenwriters have to learn in school or in their training relates mostly to craft: story, structure, characters… and very little to what...
