by Katie O'Toole | 15 November, 2018 | In Our Opinion, Screenwriting
The film industry is obsessed with psychopaths. From Alex in A Clockwork Orange and Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs all the way to John Doe in Seven and Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men; audiences can’t get enough of these remorseless killers. However,...
by Sylvie Dumont | 26 October, 2018 | Book Review, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Screenwriting
BOOK REVIEW – The Hollywood Standard (2nd Edition) by Christopher Riley You have a story. It’s compelling. It’s beautiful. It means something. Maybe you wrote it overnight, in a frenzied burst of creativity. Maybe it came to you in a dream. Now, all you need to...
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 Kathryn Butt | 30 July, 2018 | Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion, Screenwriting
Happiest of Mondays filmmakers! The sun is shining and it’s time to make your summer film in time for festival season. Continuing on the Genre Format Series (Working Title) Extraordinaire, Kat and Dušan are back to talk about yet another genre – the...
by Marta de Nitto Personé | 9 July, 2018 | Screenwriting
If screenwriting can be taught (and we at Raindance know it can be), that’s because storytelling is part of human nature. Every child has been told a story by his or her mother before going to bed. Good stories have the power to calm babies’ worries and make them...
