by Elliot Grove | 10 January, 2021 | Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Producing, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
You’ve attended new author readings on Zoom and you’ve found a terrific script. And you’ve toured fringe theatre and found a clutch of hot, new undiscovered actors. and you want to direct too. Now all you need is the finance to make your sweet-heart...
by Elliot Grove | 27 June, 2015 | Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
It’s pretty easy to make a film. Get your cell phone out, fool around with a few of the filmmaking apps, get some friends together, go down to the park (or pub) and make something. Do it again until you start getting the hang of it. Financiers and potential...
by Elliot Grove | 15 June, 2015 | Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Producing
My name is Elliot Grove and I run Raindance. Every year we are trolling through hundreds of film submissions from film producers for Raindance Film Festival and it always makes me sad. Here’s why: We end up sending out hundreds and hundreds of rejection letters...
by Elliot Grove | 23 March, 2014 | Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Post-Production, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
I grew up on the farm back in Ontario – an hour or so outside of Toronto and a million miles away from the world of film investors. My mother was horrified when she found out that I was working in the movie business. She was convinced that the devil lived in the...
