Dan Speerin was one of the first YouTube Partners in Canada, and the first Canadian host on The Young Turks Network. He’s the co-creator and producer of several successful multiplatform series, from the narrative series Twixters, which aired on television in over 60 countries, to the award-winning digital series Truth Mashup, to the panel discussion-based series on […]
Did You Know? Raindance Film Festival is considered one of the top fifteen film festivals in the world? Raindance Film School London offers HND, BA and MA in Filmmaking and Screenwriting? Let Raindance guide you on your filmmaking pathway. call +44 (0) 207 930 3412 or email filmschool@raindance.ac.uk Raindance members support indie film, and enjoy a range of […]
Sex and eroticism in movies has long been a dirty word. The public stereotype of movie sex is a low-res projection behind a red curtain in a steamy peepshow. Since the advent of moving pictures, filmmakers have grappled with how to show sensuality on the screen. In 1896 the Thomas Edison company created a 20-second […]
Like many film companies and organisations, Raindance interns run the show. A great part of my day is spent with some of the newest and brightest talents in the country, training them and then watching them disappear away from Raindance into the wild wild west, and the process starts over again. This blog, for example, […]
No one thought Raindance would survive when I plunged and took the leap, way back when Princess Diana was still alive. It was in fact on April 3rd and 4th 1992 that the very first Raindance event took place – the legendary 2-Day Film School with Dov Simens. And the25 years of Raindance started. I […]
Forget the perils of COVID. The creative industry is a crowded industry filled with many people all competing for attention. And competing for rewards. Like breathing in the germs from fellow commuters on an overcrowded rush-hour train, it’s easy to breathe in fatal germs. I call these ‘germs’ the silent killers that could be infecting […]
Put down the Christmas cake! Make movies! There’s no reason to delay your movie. Move from amateur to professional. Stop making excuses. Stop blagging the blag. Get off your couch and start doing something meaningful! You don’t need no film school! You’ve got the Christmas Filmmaker’s Toolkit! 1. Know your plan and make it realistic […]
While I also write original screenplays, I decided to adapt a novel I wrote into a screenplay for a film that I will also direct. The following thoughts on adaptation come from my personal experience of adapting the novel The Metal Girl into the film project “Metal Girl”. From Novel to Screenplay Novels and films […]
You have an idea for a film – now what? Reflecting on these five questions will help you begin production and put you in a better position to pitch your film to investors.
Many independent filmmakers break into the industry with horror films. Partly because they’re cheap to produce and have an audience. Let The Right One In (2008) Directed by Tomas Alfredson Romantic horror The Let the Right One In follows a bullied teenage boy in Stockholm whose new neighbour Eli – a girl around his own age – […]
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