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Welcome to the new Raindance website. This is the hub site for Raindance Toronto Your one stop shop for all things film and Raindance in Toronto. To see what courses and events we have coming up head here For filmmaking tips and articles head here Aaron Cohen

Ditte Haarlov Johnsen is a documentary filmmaker who screened her latest project Days of Hope at Raindance 2014. She recently shared with me how important her work is to her life and how challenging trying to tell hidden stories can be. It was photography that got me into filmmaking. Or maybe it was my interest […]

This week in our Production Tip video we’re talking about the Rule of Thirds. Watch the video below for our 3 minute film school and see if it can help you compose your shots. Th Rule of Thirds is a composition technique, imagine your screen split into thirds- 2 horizontal lines and 2 vertical lines. […]

“As many of our filmmakers are making short films I interviewed producer Julien Féret – producer of one of this years Oscar Nominated Shorts –  Butter Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak) about a photographer and his assistant who photograph the inhabitants of a remote Tibetan village on his best tips for short filmmakers.  Make […]

Raindance Web Fest 2014 presents Why Diversity Works With mainstream broadcasters increasingly announcing new schemes to increase diversity, we look at how the web is already years ahead of traditional media in this field, and how the online space can offer an opportunity for creators from any background to get their voices heard. Moderator: Lisa […]

  By Darren Chadwick-Hussein, creator of The Bloody Mary Show Why make a short film when you can make a web series? With the increasing worldwide recognition, including the Daytime Emmys; interest from the major networks and even the big studios wading into the online TV world, savvy filmmakers are now using the net as […]

I remember making my first short film after high school. It was the first time I had a crew that wasn’t just my buddies from school. I had fancy things like “Actors” and a “Director of Photography”. With my friends I had just randomly pushed through the day, making up what I wanted to shoot […]

Take a look at our video below and our break down of all our useful tips. Tip 1 – Keep It Short  Please pay attention to this one. Especially for those of you who are new to short films. The trick to creating a successful short is to keep it compact. Short films are not […]

We are proud to announce that – for the second year in a row – Raindance will be one of the sponsors of the Western Sahara Film Festival (FiSahara), which will be held in a  refugee camp deep in the Sahara desert from 28 April – 3 May. Why not come along to the 12th edition, one […]

The Raindance Raw Talent‘s feature film, Deadly Virtues: Love. Honour. Obey (2014) has been bought for distribution in Germany, has played at Dublin Horrorthon, Film 4 Frightfest, and the Whistler Film Festival for its North American premiere. It also has been leaked several times to online file and video sharing sites before it has been […]