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Lo-to-No Budget Filmmaking and writing course with Elliot Grove

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Want to make a movie and don’t know where to start? There has never been a better time to break into the British film industry. British independent filmmakers are the toast of Hollywood. The 2009 Golden Globe successes of Slumdog Millionaire, In Bruges and Happy Go Lucky have proven that.

This intensive weekend seminar shows you how to shoot a 35mm colour quality feature film, ninety minutes long with a Dolby stereo soundtrack for as little as £10,000. They did it at Raindance. They made the 35mm feature film Table 5 for just £278.38. Share they first-hand experience in making movies that look great on a minimal budget.

All formats, including film, HDV and HD, and even mobile phones are discussed.

Elliot Grove has developed a clear process that will assist you in producing, directing and selling your first feature film. This is the step-by-step method which launches successful careers. Movies like Pi, The Blair Witch Project, Chuck and Buck, Clerks and El Mariachi were all made using the principles that are demonstrated through lecture and video clips on this course. The writers, directors or producers of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Janice Beard 45 wpm, Waking Ned, Sliding Doors, Slumdog Millionare and Memento have all attended this intensive seminar before making their first films.

This course is part lecture and part group discussion.

More info:
- about the course
- about writing

Raindance filmmaking course

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Since 1993 Raindance has been the definitive organization championing and nurturing independent filmmaking. Afer 18 years, the Raindance Film Festival in London is today Europe’s largest independent film festival, and Raindance’s training courses have inspired a new breed of filmmakers. Today the Raindance community has grown to include many thousands of aspiring and seasoned filmmakers.

Raindance offers evening and weekend training courses in writing, directing and producing. They are designed to take independent filmmakers from first principles to post-production and beyond – taught hands-on and honestly. The courses offer a comprehensive overview of the most up to date and inspirational techniques and methods at use in the industry today, taught by working industry professionals at the forefront of the business.

Raindance amumni include, among others, Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes), Christopher Nolan (Batman), Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) and Charles Steel (The Last King of Scotland).

Raindance runs courses in London, New York and Toronto. New bases are currently being set up in Brussels, Berlin, and Budapest, extending the reach and scope of the Raindance community.

Elliot Grove, founder of Raindance, will be in Budapest from November 25-28, to present to the Raindance Budapest filmmaking community his lo-budget filmmaking techniques.

Writing for Low Budget Films, November 25th, evening: http://budapest.raindance.org/english/writing-for-low-budget-films/

Lo-to-No Budget Filmmaking, November 27-28, weekend workshop: http://budapest.raindance.org/english/lo-to-no-budget-filmmaking/

Lo-to-No Budget Filmmaking remains Raindance’s most popular course, and is coming for the first time to Budapest.

Online scriptwriting course on Cineuropa.org

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

From July 2008, Cineuropa.org proposes an online scriptwriting course in English, French, Italian and Spanish. The training formula is based on a direct and personalised contact between the participants and the teacher. Participants will therefore be able to read the lessons at their leisure time and communicate privately with the teacher at any moment. Following the first trial lesson, which is available, free of charge, on the website, the course is structured in eight lessons over sixteen weeks. These lessons’ aim is to offer participants the essential theoretical and practical notions in scriptwriting, while highlighting the differences between cinema scriptwriting and other creative forms. The follow up with the tutor and the practical aspects provided by the exercises are at the core of the project. The course fees amount to 465 euros + VAT. For further information, please visit www.cineuropa.org