Independent cinema has always been obsessed with the wrong question. People ask how to become successful. How to get representation. How to get into festivals. Or how to get financing. But beneath all of those questions is another one the industry rarely says out loud: How does a filmmaker become hot? Because once heat exists, […]
A Raindance Reality Check What Kind of Filmmaker Are You? Our founder claims to have fumbled and bumbled around for yesrs. stopping, starting, and never finishing anything. Does this hit a not4e with you? We were tidying up the office on Friday ahead of the Spring Bank Holiday and found this Raindance Reality Check: Seven […]
Independent filmmaking has a habit of disguising itself as something manageable. In our case, it began with a play: five women, one location, a church basement, and a story driven almost entirely by dialogue and performance. As Producer and Director, I found myself drawn not just to the apparent simplicity, but to the pressure that […]
YouTube Premiere: On the 7th anniversary of the April 15th Rebellion, Leap Productions and Extinction Rebellion present Conscientious Protectors: A Story of Rebellion Against Extinction, feature documentary from award-winning director Leigh Bloomfield — premiering on YouTube for the first time. What does it take to bring a city to a standstill? Conscientious Protectors takes you […]
This week I’ve been talking a lot about career momentum. Not theory. Not inspiration. Momentum. And being the person I am, I’m not going to just talk about it. I’m building it. So I’m officially reopening Saturday Film School at Raindance, and this time, I’ve added something I’ve never offered before. Here’s what you need […]
Nobody is coming. Not to tap your shoulder. Not to slide you a pass. Not to tell you you’re “ready.” The film business doesn’t open. It leaks. It tilts. It slouches sideways. It’s a busted fire door at the back of a multiplex, and if you’re waiting for an usher with a flashlight you’re going to die […]
I have always believed that art is not there to solely decorate our realities. It can be there to challenge it, to haunt it, to rehumanise it. At its best, art holds memory where institutions fail, gives shape to voices history has tried to erase, and creates spaces where people may once again feel seen […]
“The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.” – Sergio Leone We are making a western, an Italo-Western. Could you call it a ‘Spaghetti-Western’? Perhaps … Could you call […]
Filmmaking is often viewed as a purely creative pursuit, but anyone who has worked on a film project knows that the process can sometimes stall. Even the most passionate directors, writers, and editors can experience creative blocks that make it difficult to move forward. Whether you are struggling with story development, visual direction, or editing […]
, Every year at the Raindance Film Festival we receive an avalanche of submissions. Features. Shorts. Documentaries. Experiments. Passion projects. First films made on borrowed cameras. Carefully engineered festival contenders. As co-head of programming, I’m here to answer questions about programming at Raindance.. This year alone, 11,000 shorts and features arrived in our inbox. Yet […]
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