Yesterday I read an excellent essay by Stephanie Tyler in Bad Girl Media called Taste Is the New Intelligence. Her argument stopped me in my tracks because it articulated something I’ve been sensing ...

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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 ...

For 34 years, Raindance Film Festival has existed slightly outside the official map of the film industry. That was never an accident. Independent cinema has always belonged to outsiders. The people ...

The festival this year honours features in 10 categories: Best International Feature, Best Documentary Feature, Discovery Award for Best Debut Feature (the Elisar Cabrera Award), Best Debut Director, ...

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 ...

Great art inspires further art. This inspiration can be found within films, but the criticism and analysis of film can also be viewed as artwork itself. Online Video has allowed talented and ...

Branding used to be a dirty word in indie film. “Real” filmmakers were supposed to focus on the art and leave the branding to those mythical marketing departments that only exist in Hollywood office ...

Horror films rely on a complex combination of visual, auditory, and storytelling elements to evoke visceral emotions like fear, dread, and unease in audiences. Beyond the macabre themes and terrifying ...

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 ...