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Mesmerised by the moving image from a young age, but unable to watch TV or films until his early teens due to the constraints of his Amish background, Canadian born Elliot Grove followed formal art school training with a series of behind-the-scenes jobs in the film industry.

He worked for 9 years as a scenic artist and set designer on sixty-eight features and over 700 commercials in his native Toronto, where he developed a distaste for the wasted resources on set and union red tape that prevented filmmaker wannabes like himself from getting their own features off the ground.

Elliot moved to London in the late 1980s and in 1992, when the British film industry was drowning in self-pity, launched the Raindance Film Festival, ...

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