When Maxin Jago of the Creativity Conference asked me to do a keynote speech on why I am creative I thought long and hard.

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 ...

In the TV and film industry press, a PR moment is strategic, timely and impactful and can leverage the full lifecycle of an IP or coproduction to signal movement, momentum, or meaning to the wider ...

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 ...

34TH RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: Some Films Can’t Wait Connor Storrie in April X and authorized doc Eddie Cochran: Don’t Forget Me bookend 10 days of crucial cinema 34th Raindance Film Festival: 17 – 26 ...

For the 34th Raindance Film Festival, the designers at Curse Studio started with a feeling that kept coming back during the process: a filmmaker carrying a story that the world really needs. That ...

Nobody is coming. Stop pretending you can be discovered. There is no exhausted studio executive wandering the streets of London praying to find your unread screenplay in a coffee shop. Nor a ...

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 ...

Characters are not passengers. They are generators of conflict. If your story stops when your plot pauses, your characters are not doing enough work. 4. Constraints create tension Many filmmakers ...

Seven is a useful number. Not because it’s neat—but because it forces choices. Cannes doesn’t reward effort. It rewards clarity. These seven are the difference between “I went to Cannes” and “Cannes ...