Writing an email to a potential investor takes about ten minutes of your time. Being ready for the reply can take months. That gap catches a lot of first-time filmmakers and even some seasoned ones.
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 ...
See which AI tools hold a character's voice consistent across a full microdrama season, including cloned multilingual voice ...
Nina Romain talks to two Brit zombie-meisters who chose to have their heroes taking on the undead in UK shopping centres.
When filmmakers commission a poster from us at COLONFILM, one recurring problem arrives before the design begins: the stills are too small. Someone is investing in artwork for their film, yet the ...
January 2005: Hot Aussie summer. I was scrolling through my emails and came across one requesting volunteers to help out on a music video. It was to be produced in Sydney and starred N’Fa, who, at the ...