If your 2025 resolution was to invest in your film career, then it’s not too late.
Shop our Black Friday Sale with 20% off selected courses, and an additional 30% off for Raindance Members – use code BLACKFRIDAY25 at checkout.
See below for details on the five courses on sale.
Courses on Sale
The Power of Networking: Work the Room
In the competitive film industry, networking is a crucial skill often overlooked by newcomers. The Power of Networking: Working the Room is an immersive three hour workshop designed to help professionals elevate their networking abilities.
This course emphasises that success in the industry is not just about what you know, but who you know. By mastering the art of networking, you’ll learn how to maximise your connections and opportunities, making it easier to navigate the professional landscape and achieve your career goals.
Saturday Film School with Elliot Grove
The Saturday Film School has launched the careers of hundreds of British independent filmmakers. Used by the likes of Edgar Wright and Christopher Nolan, the tools and techniques taught during this information packed day will give you the foundations to establish yourself as a screenwriter, director, producer or filmmaker.
Divided into four parts, this course starts at the very beginning with Writing the Screenplay before moving on to Directing The Film, Breaking Into the Film Industry, and explaining the processes of actually Making the Movie for whatever budget you can achieve.
Filmmakers Foundation Certificate
The filmmaking process, all in all, is made up of countless different steps and processes. On the Filmmakers’ Foundation Certificate you will learn the fundamental skills and knowledge essential to making films – from the screenplay to the screen.
This five-week evening course is designed to provide new filmmakers with the skills and knowledge required to tackle their first short or feature film and launch their filmmaking careers. The course covers: writing for low-budget films, making movies with no money, the basics of film directing, and breaking into the film industry.
Film Directors Foundation Certificate
A film director is ultimately responsible for every image and sound that appears on the screen.
This five-week film directing course provides a detailed overview of the skills, knowledge and professional requirements for those wishing to direct for the big screen.
Documentary Filmmaking Foundation Certificate
In this five part evening course Tom Webb takes you through the fundamentals of documentary filmmaking. He draws on his extensive knowledge gained creating entertainment, corporate, short form and feature length documentaries.
You will learn not only about the technical aspects for documentary making but also interviewing techniques and stylistic approaches.
Learn how to translate your knowledge from passion projects to paid corporate work. The course starts by looking at documentary as a genre and its relationship to an audience.
From there you will learn about the shooting process, interview techniques and post production workflows. You will learn how to find translatable skills that allow you to leverage your knowledge between passion projects and paid corporate work.
Each class on the course will be taught via lectures, discussion and Q&A sessions.
Raindance promotes and supports independent filmmaking and filmmakers.
From new and emerging to industry pros, Raindance connects, trains, supports, and promotes visual storytellers through every step of their career.
The Raindance Film Festival runs each Summer in London’s Leicester Square.
Raindance has been delivering film training since 1992. A wide range of Open Classes to a 2 year HND Level 5 BTEC in Moving Images to a Postgraduate Film Degree are delivered to students on five continents, both in person and online.
