Upcoming courses and career events for late October and November 2026. January is a wonderful hiding place. You can put your screenplay there. Your first short. Your plan to become a director. That ...

Can a film tell its story without a single line of dialogue? That was one of the questions I wanted to explore when I began making Persian Gulf (2026). The film is a 4-minute-31-second, dialogue-free ...

Everybody loves a good twist. Our horror challenge is back, and we’re ready to shake things up with “An Unexpected Twist”. We want to see your original and creative one-minute films that spook and ...

I’m delighted to say that two debut features from our June 2026 Raindance programme have secured UK theatrical releases: April X and Child.

Japanese can be a difficult language for automated video translation. Meaning often depends heavily on context, subjects are frequently omitted when they are understood from the conversation, and the ...

Meet the Raindance Teams Raindance Film Festival Elliot GroveFounder Suzanne BallantyneCo-Founder Ed HubbardCo-Head of Programming Zygmunt BannockCo-Head of Programming Nina MenonHead of Marketing ...

You already know how to meet deadlines, solve problems and work with people. Here is how to bring those skills into filmmaking.

Beverly Hills, CA—November 17, 2013—Syd Field, long considered by the global film community as “the guru of screenwriting,” died on Sunday, November 17 of hemolytic anemia at his home in Beverly Hills ...

A stereotype can be useful for about ten seconds. And here are the principles professional use. What are you going to do ...

See which AI tools hold a character's voice consistent across a full microdrama season, including cloned multilingual voice ...

The combination Artificial Intelligence and Filmmaking presents the most intense development since the advent of sound. In the dynamic world of filmmaking, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as ...

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 ...