Current MA student Miles Crossman, based in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, has just won a film pitch prize at the Gimli festival. Miles and his partner Nicola Baldwin, pitched If it Ain’t Got, a swing dance short film about community and inclusion. If it Ain’t Got will chronicle the experience of a 21-year-old Nigerian man’s discovery of swing […]
Media and entertainment are the two biggest global industries today, that’s a fact, and technology in film is forever evolving with the likes of streaming sites (think Netflix) making it easier than ever to watch your new favourite series from the comfort of your own home. Even if revenue has declined in the movie industry, […]
“I didn’t go to film school, I went to films.” Quentin Tarantino has been repeating that sentence to bewildered film journalist since the beginning of his career. That may sound like an arrogant statement from the new kid on the block, but Tarantino has consistently delivered in each outing for the past twenty-five years. Not attending […]
Living in London, England makes Canada seem a long way away. There is precious little news of Canada here, unless it’s about Justin Trudeau. How I wish we had a leader like Trudeau in my native Poland. There is, however, a lot of news about Candaian filmmakers. I know that there are Raindance hubs in […]
I’m fascinated to learn what Toronto’s lo-budget filmmakers can learn from Elliot Grove. I managed to catch up with him in between his busy travel schedule. My name is Tiska Wiederman and I run the Raindance Postgraduate Film Degree programme out of my loft here in Toronto. I’ve known Elliot Grove since 2011. Few people […]
As creatives we are often bemused with political shenanigans – and hasn’t there been a lot lately? Theresa May called an election. Her decision was ill judged. Last year we’ve seen David Cameron’s political career torpedoed by the BREXIT decision, we’ve endured Trumpian nonsense from America, the brouhaha in Quater and of course the continuing […]
There’s never been a better time to make a film. That’s what we believe at Raindance and what we’re encouraging with all the budding filmmakers coming through our doors all over the world, and that’s what we’ve been seeing for a quarter of a century at the Raindance Film Festival. Once upon a time, the […]
The budget is one of the most important and one of the most difficult components in filmmaking. Many have struggled on working within the limitations of the budget they have and in result, have produced poor films by being overly ambitious and unwilling to compromise. The fact of the matter is that not every production […]
It took me eight years after graduating film school to finally direct my first feature film and I often wonder why? I read every book on the subject, attended Vogler and McKee’s seminars, studied the greats like Hitchcock, Fellini and Kurosawa, analyzed Citizen Kane, Rumble Fish and Bonnie and Clyde, earned my BFA and MFA, […]
As a Canadian filmmaker one of the hardest parts of developing a film is getting it seen by the right audiences. There are many festivals within Canada that are excellent but keep in mind that a film can thrive outside of its own country. These 6 Independent Film Festivals are some of the best stops […]
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