Anyone close to the organisation of Raindance will wonder; time and time again, year after year, why the tireless staff at the Raindance Film Festival subject themselves to the stress of organising this annual event. The answer is simple. We at Raindance believe strongly in the importance of film festivals. 1. Expose independent cinema to […]
It’s World Day of Human Space Flight and so many of our favourite movies take place up in the final frontier. Hollywood has been taking film-goers into the sky for decades to give us a taste of what life in zero gravity is really like. Whether you’re excited by the infinite expanse or afraid of […]
Ahead of his Steel Country Masterclass on 18th April and of the upcoming release of Steel Country, we sat down with Academy Awards and BAFTA-winning producer Gareth Ellis-Unwin (The King’s Speech). What intrigued you most reading the script of Steel Country? Did the original script undergo any significant changes throughout the production process? When Simon Fellows (the […]
Filmmaking, creativity and innovation tend to take the front seat, driving you towards the creation of your work. While the artistic expression of creation in itself is an abstract method, the procedure once you finish your craft is much less abstract. But mast fail to understand the relevance and importance of IP law. Sharing, selling, […]
My comedy series Relationshit (now on Amazon Prime) was financed out of my own pocket. It has a cast that appeared in Star Wars Rogue One, Mission Impossible, Avengers, and British TV drama. Getting high caliber cast onto your no budget production may not be as difficult as you think – but there are a […]
Getting a foot in the door of Hollywood isn’t for the faint of heart. It takes years of gruntwork, a slew of side hustles, and an unsettling amount of unpaid internships. You also need talent. Instead of waiting around for someone to notice you, it’s becoming more and more common to produce to your first […]
Filmmaking needn’t be expensive. There’s loadsa free filmmaking stuff at Raindance. Screenwriting Christopher Nolan Script Suite Script format and style guide So You Want to be a Screenwriter – learn how to write a screenplay with ease Writing Characters – Go Beyond Stereotypes 3 Formatting Pro Tips for Breaking Down a Screenplay How to Create […]
The most common complaint of an indie filmmaker is money. And to be sure, sometimes you can’t do without it. Historical epics, soaring space operas, massive scale thrillers – these genres, by their very nature, are never cheap. But many indie filmmakers are not trying to make the next El Cid or Star Wars. For […]
In 2008 Malcolm Gladwell published an influential book Outliers in which he unveiled his ten thousand hours rule for the first time. What is an outlier? According to one dictionary definition, an outlier is ‘something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body’. Kind of the definition of an […]
Money is, by definition, always a difficult issue for the low budget filmmaker. The challenge is in getting as much of your meagre budget up on the screen as possible. With that being the case do you really have the money to throw around on overpriced software packages? Luckily, by the wonders of open source […]
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