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From new and emerging to industry pros, Raindance connects, trains, supports, and promotes visual storytellers through every step of their career, providing information and advice on all aspects of film, from shorts, features, documentaries, web series and new media.
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Raindance Founder Elliot Grove Selects His Festival Highlights
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...
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12 Types of People Who Attend Film Festivals
In order to get the most out of your film festival experience, it’s important to decide what your goal is before you attend, as how you spend your time will differ depending on what you want to get out of it – be in to meet a load of new people or to find inspiration by watching as many films as you can fit it. Here are the 12 types of people you’ll meet at film festivals – which type are you?
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Filmmaker: Maximise Your Film Festival
You've spent a fortune applying to film festivals. I know this because I do this with my movies. You've had a series of rejections - and do they sting. I've been turned down by dozens of film festivals with my various projects. Now you've finally got accepted to a...
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