When Maxin Jago of the Creativity Conference asked me to do a keynote speech on why I am creative I thought long and hard.

Every independent film is a small business that runs for exactly one production cycle. And like any business, the two questions that determine whether it survives are: how do you reduce costs, and how ...

They are about caffeine, social anxiety, tote bags, existential collapse, and people pretending they “absolutely loved the pacing.” After thirty-plus years of standing in festival foyers, here are the ...

Independent horror is having another moment. Not the polished studio kind built by committee and market research. Not horror diluted into “elevated content” for streaming algorithms. We mean the real ...

Another Raindance. Another back-to-back horror feature marathon. And as horror subgenres continue to multiply, merge, or mutate, we have 17 brilliant horror films categorised for your terrifying ...

For the 34th Raindance Film Festival, the designers at Curse Studio started with a feeling that kept coming back during the process: a filmmaker carrying a story that the world really needs. That ...

Nobody is coming. Stop pretending you can be discovered. There is no exhausted studio executive wandering the streets of London praying to find your unread screenplay in a coffee shop. Nor a ...

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 ...

For 34 years, Raindance Film Festival has existed slightly outside the official map of the film industry. That was never an accident. Independent cinema has always belonged to outsiders. The people ...

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 ...

Seven is a useful number. Not because it’s neat—but because it forces choices. Cannes doesn’t reward effort. It rewards clarity. These seven are the difference between “I went to Cannes” and “Cannes ...