At Raindance, that orchestra is conducted by David Martinez. And if the founder is the thunder, David is the calm.

That might sound dramatic, but look around the film industry and it’s increasingly true. you have about 24 months before your skills expire.

Table reads and self tapes are hard to do alone, but this is somewhere that AI developments can be brought in to help you.

Most Indie Films Don’t Miss Funding Because They’re Bad. They Miss Funding Because They’re Structurally Unfundable.

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We are now at the “early adopters experiment” phase of AI. This is the moment when independent creators still have room to manoeuvre.

When I made The Invention of Chris Marker, I didn’t have a crew, a shooting script, or even a camera in the traditional sense. What I had was a question I couldn’t shake, a laptop, and the freedom to ...

Vertical storytelling has officially crossed from “platform experiment” into “global business model.” But here’s the part nobody on the panels is saying out loud: The vertical microdrama market is ...

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, ...

At Raindance, we teach filmmakers how to avoid these mistakes. Today, we’re doing the opposite. Because the fastest way to understand craft is to understand failure. If you can spot a bad film in ten ...

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 ...