To Refuse Disappearance: Art as a Path Toward Rehumanisation
I have always believed that art is not there to solely decorate our realities. It can be there to challenge…
Undertone Trailer Breakdown: Why It Works (Beat by Beat)
Have you heard of the new movie made for a half million? Which took $15mil in it’s first two weeks?…
It Takes A Village… The Making Of A Spaghetti Western For The Twenty-First Century
“The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world,…
Vertical Dramas: Here’s What Nobody Wants to Admit
Everyone’s being polite about vertical dramas. They shouldn’t be. Because this isn’t “a new storytelling form.” It’s a behavioural business…
Creating Atmospheric Tension In Indie Horror Films With Horror Sound Effects
Independent horror filmmaking often relies on atmosphere more than spectacle. Limited budgets rarely allow elaborate creature effects or complex visual…
Overcoming Creative Blocks During the Filmmaking Process
Filmmaking is often viewed as a purely creative pursuit, but anyone who has worked on a film project knows that…
Seven Questions with Co-Head of Programming, Raindance
, Every year at the Raindance Film Festival we receive an avalanche of submissions. Features. Shorts. Documentaries. Experiments. Passion projects.…
The Moment Your Writing Stops Working
Creativity is rarely the problem in the moment your writing stops working. The real moment your work dies is far…
The New Hollywood: Why Experience Is Replacing Distribution
Experience is replacing film distribution. For most of film history, distribution was the bottleneck. You made a film. You fought…
