by Raindance | 21 September, 2018 | In Our Opinion, Raindance Film Festival
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...
by Elliot Grove | 26 December, 2017 | Filmmaking, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
Don’t we all hate painful filmmaking lessons? I do. I’ve had plenty of them. It’s been 25 years since this whole Raindance thing started, and it’s painful to remember all the naive and often stupid lessons I had to be taught. We’re...
by Elliot Grove | 20 December, 2017 | Directing, Documentary, Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion
No one thought Raindance would survive when I plunged and took the leap, way back when Princess Diana was still alive. It was in fact on April 3rd and 4th 1992 that the very first Raindance event took place – the legendary 2-Day Film School with Dov Simens. I...
by McKinleigh Lair | 14 November, 2017 | Directing, Filmmaking, Producing, Screenwriting
You have an idea for a film – now what? Reflecting on these five questions will help you begin production and put you in a better position to pitch your film to investors. 1. What will it add to the conversation? Ideally, your film should be meaningful, entertaining,...
by Natalia Bolek | 26 June, 2017 | Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion
Living in London, England makes Canada seem a long way away. There is precious little news of Canada here, unless it’s about Justin Trudeau. How I wish we had a leader like Trudeau in my native Poland. There is, however, a lot of news about Candaian filmmakers....
