34TH RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: Some Films Can’t Wait Connor Storrie in April X and authorized doc Eddie Cochran: Don’t Forget Me bookend 10 days of crucial cinema 34th Raindance Film Festival: 17 – 26 ...

Film investors operate on a whole new way today. For decades, filmmakers have been taught that the most important thing is the film itself. Write the best screenplay. Cast the right actors. Shoot ...

The 34th Raindance Film Festival opens on 17 June at Vue West End in Leicester Square with the UK Premiere of Michel K. Parandi’s debut feature APRIL X (dir: Michel K. Parandi, USA). A multi-award ...

How does a filmmaker become hot? Because once heat exists, doors begin opening differently. Emails get answered faster..

Of course, there’s always the opportunity to make a day or night of it, as the city’s restaurants come to life. But with so many restaurants to choose from, and the pain of chasing bookings on a busy ...

Characters are not passengers. They are generators of conflict. If your story stops when your plot pauses, your characters are not doing enough work. 4. Constraints create tension Many filmmakers ...

Let’s get something straight. Cannes Film Festival is not a festival. It’s a marketplace wrapped in glamour, soaked in heat, and fuelled by anxiety. You don’t “attend” Cannes. You survive it—and if ...

April Fools works because the audience consents. That’s the difference. Nobody watching a fake spaghetti harvest on the BBC in 1957 thought they were watching satire. They thought it was real. Until ...

Have you heard of the new movie made for a half million? Which took $15mil in it’s first two weeks? It was shot in the filmmaker’s childhood home. Here is the trailer: Let’s take this apart ...

Creativity is rarely the problem in the moment your writing stops working. The real moment your work dies is far more subtle. It’s when your language stops coming from lived experience and starts ...

Love comes in many different shapes and forms. This Valentine’s Day, we’re looking for original and creative one-minute films that explore the theme of unlikely love – unexpected, accidental, ...

If you have been reading our founder’s Substack, you will here a lot about a new film movement coming out of America, and now in the UK, called “Nondē” Meaning Non-dependent filmmaking. NonDē doesn’t ...