by Elliot Grove | 23 June, 2017 | Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion, Producing
Two huge civic celebrations of independence are coming up: July 1st is Canada’s 150 birthday – celebrating how they threw off the yoke of the British government, and July 4th – the day all Americans celebrate how a raggle-taggle gang of upstarts...
by Liza Vespi | 20 June, 2017 | Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion, Interviews
My name is Liza Vespi and I’m the Executive Director of Raindance Canada here in Toronto. Elliot Grove is the Toronto-born-and-raised founder of Raindance — the largest independent film festival in Europe. He’s coming to Toronto to present a series...
by Elliot Grove | 20 June, 2017 | Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion
Film festival roles have seen dramatic changes over the past two decades. Filmmakers struggle with distribution despite the power of the internet. Film festivals themselves seem to come and go – the festival attrition rate seems to be higher than ever. So what...
by Elliot Grove | 13 June, 2017 | Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion, Interviews
I’m fascinated to learn what Toronto’s lo-budget filmmakers can learn from Elliot Grove. I managed to catch up with him in between his busy travel schedule. My name is Tiska Wiederman and I run the Raindance Postgraduate Film Degree programme out of my...
by Elliot Grove | 9 June, 2017 | Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion
As creatives we are often bemused with political shenanigans – and hasn’t there been a lot lately? Theresa May called an election. Her decision was ill judged. Last year we’ve seen David Cameron’s political career torpedoed by the BREXIT...
by Raindance | 31 May, 2017 | In Our Opinion
“They don’t make ’em like they used to…” We all get nostalgic about films – and it’s true that a lot has changed over the years with technological advances in filmmaking and changes in the way stories are told. So when you get...
