Raindance Producers' Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking, 2nd Edition

Preface

 

 

 

 

Just Do It

I started Raindance Film Festival in 1992 with a view to promoting independent filmmaking in London. At that time a pervasive gloom hung over the British film industry, with only six films being made that year. A once thriving British feature film industry had suffered a severe collapse with the advent of TV. At the time, I was considered misguided, and Raindance was expected to collapse quickly.

But the notion of independent filmmaking, and indeed Raindance, has thrived to the extent that we are now one of the leading film festivals in Europe and, together with the British Independent Film Awards, are a force to be reckoned with. Independent film has become one of the buzzwords of the cultural elite. Hollywood studios ...