You already know how to meet deadlines, solve problems and work with people. Here is how to bring those skills into filmmaking.

I’m delighted to say that two debut features from our June 2026 Raindance programme have secured UK theatrical releases: April X and Child.

See which AI tools hold a character's voice consistent across a full microdrama season, including cloned multilingual voice ...

A stereotype can be useful for about ten seconds. And here are the principles professional use. What are you going to do ...

Nina Romain talks to two Brit zombie-meisters who chose to have their heroes taking on the undead in UK shopping centres.

With live-action adaptations like “Lilo and Stitch 2” and “Tangled” in production, the conversation about whether these films are doing their animated counterparts justice continues. Everyone is ...

Ben Tan is an exciting new director marked by Bresson and Haneke; he discusses his powerful short Dog, inventive video for Sophie Thatcher and the artistic solutions he came upon. Tan has been making ...

VR and AR have been “the future” for a long time. Long enough that the phrase no longer helps much. The first wave was easy to recognize. A headset at the booth. An AR filter tied to a launch. A ...

Everyone likes to say Netflix revolutionised film distribution. It didn’t. It digitised it. The pyramid stayed exactly the same — theatrical, then DVD, then cable, then whatever comes next — Netflix ...

This is not Cannes with yachts and sunglasses pretending to be cinema. Your first time at Raindance 2026 is going to be a lot different. This is where filmmakers, screenwriters, actors, producers, ...

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 ...

Have you heard of the new movie made for a half million? Which took $15mil in it’s first two weeks? It was shot in the filmmaker’s childhood home. Here is the trailer: Let’s take this apart ...