by Raindance | 17 September, 2018 | Festivals, Raindance Film Festival
This year Raindance saw 8929 film submissions with over 4,000 hours of film watched! The brave individual who oversaw the entire submission process is none other than Raindance festival senior programmer Martyna Szmytkowska. She selects her top 5 picks you make sure...
by Raindance | 13 September, 2018 | Documentary, Festivals, Raindance Film Festival
The arts transform our lives on a daily basis, being at once pools of inspiration, forebearers of change and vehicles of emotion. Oftentimes however the people striving behind the scenes are barely in profile. 26th Raindance Film Festival brings out through its Arts...
by Raindance | 5 September, 2018 | Festivals, Filmmaking, Raindance Film Festival
Coming of age films explore the slippery slopes of firsts: first crushes, first mistakes, first encounters away from home. On the wobbly path to adulthood, these stories follow the journeys of soul-searching protagonists learning from the world they encounter and...
by Raindance | 3 September, 2018 | Directing, Documentary, Festivals, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Post-Production, Producing, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
The Raindance 15 Second Short Competition returns bigger and better for 2018 as we get ready for Raindance Film Festival. This edition is sponsored by LUMIX cameras. How to Take Part: 1) Shoot a 15-second film around the theme: Discover. Be Discovered. End credits...
by Elliot Grove | 3 September, 2018 | Festivals, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
Your film is nearly finished and now it’s time to get the word out. The traditional way is to prepare and release a film press release. Journalists still respond to a press release despite the way social media has influenced the way news works. Now here’s...
by Raindance | 31 August, 2018 | Documentary, Festivals, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Raindance Film Festival
Films, as we all know, are wonderful means of storytelling, and Raindance comes out this year with another showcase of films exploring all that stories can tell and yield. But what about showing how these stories are told in film? What can we learn from the entire...
