“Subtitles” used to mean one file. Now a festival or distributor may ask for closed captions, open captions, SDH and audio description as well, each a separate deliverable. Here is what each one is, who asks for it, and a checklist you can work through before your film goes out. You lock picture, finish the […]
Everyone loves a good Halloween-themed horror, preferably set in the dead of night in a haunted house, midnight graveyard or similar deserted location. But what about horror films set mainly in summer, in broad daylight or crowded situations? Nina Romain looks into the true nightmare of Halloween horror Sick of cliched festive films and glow […]
“Slow motion can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, revealing layers of meaning.” Stanley Kubrick I’m a specialist slow-motion cinematographer and own a Freefly Ember 5K, a camera designed specifically for capturing super slow-motion footage for film and television. It can shoot at up to 1,000fps in 4K, with even higher frame rates available in […]
I’m a child of the 80s. I grew up watching Tom and Jerry reruns, and later became massively inspired by Aardman, particularly Wallace and Gromit’s A Grand Day Out. At home, we had the mighty Acorn Electron computer with all 16kb of power, complete with a cassette tape player for saving code. I was a […]
A lot of films reach a festival without a trailer, or with one cut in the last week from whatever was left on the drive. Then it goes up on YouTube, Instagram and the festival page, and most people watch a few seconds and keep scrolling. A trailer has one job: get the viewer to […]
CineLog is a film pre-production tool that keeps the script, breakdown, shot list, storyboards, shooting schedule, and call sheets in one project, on every device the crew carries. It’s the newest name in a category that has mostly been built around per-seat pricing and apps that only run in a browser. We built it around […]
Most indie post-production schedules are built around work: assembly, rough cut, fine cut, picture lock, sound, colour, deliverables. Very few are built around decisions. Yet that is where the weeks disappear. The cut that sat with an executive producer for ten days. The composer waiting on a temp-music conversation nobody had. The “locked” picture that […]
A few years ago, I met a filmmaker carrying roughly $250,000 in student loans from USC. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. How do you launch a creative career with that kind of weight on your back? I’m not anti-education. I have a master’s degree in communication studies. But I’ve learned that having a degree […]
Fifteen films make the 2026 longlist, from a Sundance-winning protest documentary to a Victorian found-footage horror shot in a circular frame Raindance today announces the fifteen-film longlist for the Raindance Maverick Award at the 2026 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA). Raindance, the UK’s largest independent film festival, founded BIFA in 1998 and created the Maverick […]
I’ve met plenty of filmmakers with a first feature script they can’t afford to shoot. Too many locations. Too many characters. Extreme waiting for someone else to say yes. Why would you do that to your career/ Contained horror is nothing new. I compare it to the Blair Witch guy back in the ’90’s.We had […]
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