HeyJaredElliot Grove
Rants and raves about independent film from the founder of Raindance Film Festival
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How to Validate Your Screenplay Idea in 30 Minutes (opens the original)
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Film Festival Programmer: How Do They Make Decisions? (opens the original)
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The Size of the Set Changes. The Job Does Not. (opens the original)
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Why Raindance SevenSeven is the number of practical wisdom with enough room for ambition, but not enough room for excuses. Filmmakers often imagine that professional sets operate according to secret rules known only to an elite few. They do not. The equipment becomes more expensive, the names become more famous and the consequences become larger, but the fundamental work remains remarkably familiar.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LXd3!,f
Raindance Strategy Brief: 28 September 2026 (opens the original)
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The World Is Changing. What Are Filmmakers Going to Do About It? (opens the original)
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My dear Raindance colleague, the director Simon Hunter forwarded me an essay by Jeffrey Katzenberg: “The World is Changing: AI For Creativity”. His reflections on the huge technological change and artists’ rights over the past hundred years provided my starting point for this piece. The independent filmmaking perspective and arguments below are my own.Filmmakers are fighting to survive. The entire distribution model is fractured filmmakers are struggling to understand how to monetise their work
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