Writing an email to a potential investor takes about ten minutes of your time. Being ready for the reply can take months. That gap catches a lot of first-time filmmakers and even some seasoned ones.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Nina Romain talks to two Brit zombie-meisters who chose to have their heroes taking on the undead in UK shopping centres.

Ben Tan is an exciting new director marked by Bresson and Haneke; he discusses his powerful short Dog, inventive video for Sophie Thatcher and the artistic solutions he came upon. Tan has been making ...

AI filmmaking has moved from experimental to standard practice in under two years. AI-generated footage has appeared in major commercial campaigns and screened at real festivals, and productions with ...

The quickest way to lose a cinematic point of view on a branded film is to treat the brief as a shot list. The client needs the facility, the product, the team, an interview and the logo. You can ...

Today Elliot Grove & Suzanne Ballantyne received their British Citizen Award Medal of Honour for Services to the Arts, their daughter Désirée Ballantyne-Grove collected on behalf of Suzanne Ballantyne ...