1+ day, 2+ min ago  (942+ words) (Because it admits it's lying.) Let's get something straight. April Fools' Day is not about jokes. It's about power. And once a year, just once, he entire world drops its guard and says: "Go on then. Trick me." Meanwhile, the…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (10+ words) To Refuse Disappearance: Art as a Path Toward Rehumanisation'raindance.org...

6+ day, 2+ min ago  (581+ words) Have you heard of the new movie/ made for a half million, and in its first two weeks it has taken $15mil. It was shot in the filmmaker's childhood home. Let's take this apart properly'because this isn't just a trailer. It's…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (661+ words) Everyone's being polite about vertical dramas. They shouldn't be. Because this isn't "a new storytelling form." It's a behavioural business model disguised as storytelling. And if you don't understand that, you will fail in this space. Let's stop pretending. Vertical…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1013+ words) Independent horror filmmaking often relies on atmosphere more than spectacle. Limited budgets rarely allow elaborate creature effects or complex visual sequences. What filmmakers do have is creative control over sound. The right tone in the background, a subtle texture beneath…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1046+ words) , Every year at the Raindance Film Festival we receive an avalanche of submissions. Features. Shorts. Documentaries. Experiments. Passion projects. First films made on borrowed cameras. Carefully engineered festival contenders. As co-head of programming, I'm here to answer questions about programming…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (810+ words) 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 coming from borrowed frameworks. Film schools repeat…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (690+ words) At Raindance, the public face is often the films, the festival, and its famously outspoken founder. But behind the scenes sits someone whose job is to make the entire machine run: David Martinez, Executive Director of Raindance. If the founder…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (941+ words) That might sound dramatic, but look around the film industry and it's increasingly true. Your skills could easily expire. Technology cycles used to move slowly. A filmmaker could learn a camera system, an editing workflow, or a distribution model and…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (370+ words) When people hear about AI in the film industry, they almost always think of AI stealing the jobs of screenwriters. As a writer, I tried using AI for writing out of curiosity, but the results it produced did not feel…...