by Elliot Grove | 6 January, 2021 | Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion
It’s time of year for resolutions. Each one of us says to our inner self: come on, you can do better. Try making an anti-resolution this year. Let me explain how crafting attainable goals means you have a chance of success. My name is Elliot Grove. I’ve...
by Elliot Grove | 13 April, 2020 | Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion
I wrote Hollywood’s 4 Biggest Lies for a Raindance newspetter in 1993 or 94 – I can’t quite remember. It’s based on the teachings of Dov S-S Simens who first came to Raindance and Europe on April 4th 1992. This article has been cloned and...
by Marta de Nitto Personé | 13 August, 2018 | Directing, Film History, Screenwriting
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” It was Thomas Mann to say that, but every good writer knows exactly what he means. A writer’s aim is to create from scratch a parallel world (that should be at least as interesting...
by Li-Wei Chu | 14 June, 2018 | Festivals, Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
One of the many things that we here at Raindance have to do (besides answering your phone calls) is to review submissions that people from around the world enter into the film festival. All of the submitted films are amazing, but only a few can make it into the actual...
by Matt Loggie | 21 March, 2017 | Filmmaking
Cell phone technology has advanced at an unbelievable pace since the 1980’s. In the dark dystopian future of 2017, entire feature length movies are shot on so-called ‘Smart Phones’. What does it all mean? Just how smart are they? Are these ‘Smart...
