Jerry Lewis was an iconic filmmaker. A comedian, writer, director and all around jack-of-all-trades, he remains high in the pantheon of twentieth century filmmaking. Dubbed ‘The King of Comedy’, he was an influential comic whose unique style and boundless creativity made its mark on comedy. Across films such as The Nutty Professor, The Ladies Man, and of […]
This year, Raindance launched its inaugural Screenplay Competition to give more opportunities for independent screenwriters and shine a light on yet undiscovered storytelling talent. As a script reader for the competition, in the past two months, I’ve read over 100 screenplays, shorts, and features, across a number of genres such as drama, action, fantasy, horror, […]
Writing characters is the essential skill for any author. Whatever medium you are writing in- short film, feature film, television, theatre, novel – a compelling, engaging character is the best way to get into the story, both for the audience and for the writer. It may seem that there is always an element of mystery […]
It is said that those who don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. Open the news, read up on history, and you may well find yourself sadly nodding in agreement. In the filmmaking world, the best storytellers who deal in images are rarely so bold as to describe themselves as reinventing the […]
Film production management is a gigantic task: at the heart of show business, the business of dreams and glittering images, lies the messy reality of where the sausage is made, a film set. A film production needs to be a tight, well-oiled machine which enables every member of cast and crew, everyone above and below […]
Who doesn’t love a good villain? Audiences love a good villain. The best ones can strike a chord in our imagination like few heroes can, resonate with members of the audience individually, and make a mark in the culture at large. If you think of the role of the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark […]
“Movies can change the world” is a sentence so worn-out, it often feels entirely void of its meaning. As soon as it reaches your ears, you want to object that making movies that could, maybe, change the world are beyond your grasp. It takes money, time, resources, connections, and so many other elements that the […]
What does it really mean to be an artist? What gives an artist meaning and purpose? How do we strengthen our artistic muscle? Award-winning actress, filmmaker, and Raindance MA graduate and mentor, Louise Salter is hosting an original podcast series called Slowcooked which explores what it means to be an artist. Through philosophical and open […]
Each screenwriter’s aspiration is for the story to get bought, produced and put on the screen. Yet most of what screenwriters have to learn in school or in their training relates mostly to craft: story, structure, characters… and very little to what happens once their script is done. Kathie Fong Yenoda’s terrific The Script-Selling Game endeavours […]
“You talkin’ to me?” is probably one of the best-known lines of dialogue in movie history in the past century. In Taxi Driver, the protagonist Travis Bickle is alone in his room, looking at himself in the mirror, imagines someone else is there, and starts imagining a dialogue. It is also well known that what was […]
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