What is my film worth? This is the most common question I hear year after year at the Raindance Film Festival. I meet many filmmakers at various stages of the fimmaking process, all of whom have varying approaches to the tricky question of valuing their films. It’s also taken on a strangely surreal meaning too […]
Amazon.co.uk Widgets Bill Martell’s screenwriting classes are on of the highlights of every Raindance Film Festival he attends. With nearly two dozen of his scripts produced, Bill has developed a real knack of telling screenwriters how it actually is in the industry. Here he discusses how we show pain in the movies: POP QUIZ. Which […]
As cinematographer it’s my duty and most and above all my pleasure to create the look of a film. My role is to turn the director’s vision into reality. Often, I’m challenged by directors but let’s face it that’s one of the reasons I love my job. Recently we shot a film called Madison Cruz […]
While film has always been a huge passion of mine, I chose to study History of Art at University. To my absolute delight, I came to find that the two disciplines are in constant conversation with each other. Art inspires film. Film inspires art. Hell, film is art. Like the two-dimensional art (paintings, drawings, photographs, […]
Film and Theatre may walk hand-in-hand down the lane of audiovisual entertainment, but that does not mean they are similar: each is a different discipline with different – written and unwritten – rules and difficulties, and each has the ability to be extremely powerful – both as a vessel for meaning and as a tool […]
Independent film is on the rise, with 12 Years A Slave alone grossing almost $38 million in 2013. This detailed infographic made by Mutinee looks back over the last year to show us exactly what kind of films were made independently but also shows that they can made just as much, if not more, than […]
Here is an exchange we had with Naveen Medaram, a director who trained up on Raindance courses, directed two movies and is now in line to direct an LA-based $500,000 feature film. As a budding director, Naveen was wondering what sort of fee he could expect from his producers. Naveen: From: Naveen Medaram To: […]
There are three stages to film-making: pre-production, production and post-production. Many filmmakers are in a perpetual pre-production stage. Pre-production is the stage where you try and convince everyone that your film is about to start shooting. It’s the nerve wracking stage where you wait for financial commitments to materialise in your bank, and for cast […]
5. Amy Sherman-Palladino DOB: 1966 (Age 47/48) First TV break: 1990 (Age 24) Amy Sherman-Palladino is a Emmy award winning screenwriter, producer and director, best known for the show Gilmore Girls. She was a trained dancer since the age of four and well into her teens, so much so that in her early twenties she was […]
4. Aaron Sorkin DOB: June 9th 1961 (Age 52) First TV break: 1988 (Age 27) Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an Academy and Emmy award winning screenwriter, producer, and playwright. Sorkin graduated from Syracuse University in 1983 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Musical Theatre. After graduating, Sorkin moved to New York where he worked as an actor through the 1980’s. […]
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