If you're planning your next film, don't wait until it's finished to think about distribution. Start by thinking about your audience.

That’s why rooftops have become the setting for cinema’s most important conversations. Lovers confess their feelings. Friends imagine the future. Heroes make impossible choices, and even villains, for ...

Today Elliot Grove & Suzanne Ballantyne received their British Citizen Award Medal of Honour for Services to the Arts.

A documentary consultant help documentary filmmakers develop their films to be the best it can be. Col shares the mistakes he finds.

And for an independent filmmaker trying to get a film in front of the people who’d actually love it, that distinction matters more than almost anything else in the room. Here’s the part nobody puts on ...

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 ...

Independent cinema does not survive by accident. Every breakthrough filmmaker, every daring first feature, every unforgettable screening experience exists because somewhere, someone decided that new ...

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 ...

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 ...

I founded Raindance Film Festival in 1993 because the British film industry was closed, polite, and congratulating itself while shutting new filmmakers out. I co-founded the British Independent Film ...

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 ...