Upcoming courses and career events for late October and November 2026. January is a wonderful hiding place. You can put your screenplay there. Your first short. Your plan to become a director. That ...

Can a film tell its story without a single line of dialogue? That was one of the questions I wanted to explore when I began making Persian Gulf (2026). The film is a 4-minute-31-second, dialogue-free ...

Everybody loves a good twist. Our horror challenge is back, and we’re ready to shake things up with “An Unexpected Twist”. We want to see your original and creative one-minute films that spook and ...

I’m delighted to say that two debut features from our June 2026 Raindance programme have secured UK theatrical releases: April X and Child.

Japanese can be a difficult language for automated video translation. Meaning often depends heavily on context, subjects are frequently omitted when they are understood from the conversation, and the ...

You already know how to meet deadlines, solve problems and work with people. Here is how to bring those skills into filmmaking.

A stereotype can be useful for about ten seconds. And here are the principles professional use. What are you going to do ...

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 ...

The combination Artificial Intelligence and Filmmaking presents the most intense development since the advent of sound. In the dynamic world of filmmaking, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as ...

See which AI tools hold a character's voice consistent across a full microdrama season, including cloned multilingual voice ...

Remember sitting in the cinema as a kid, and gripping the seat in terror? Or laughing until the tears ran down your face? Cinema is often described as an art form that engages multiple senses to ...

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, ...