Have the film industry demystified in one weekend. Learn how to shoot, edit and direct your first feature cost-effectively and develop a plan for submitting to film festivals and distributors.

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Tutor:	Elliot Grove	Venue:	TBA
Date:	TBA	Duration:	2 day weekend
Time:	9:30am - 6:00pm	Price:	TBA

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Want to make a movie and don't know where to start? There has never been a better time to break into the film industry.

This intensive weekend seminar shows you how to shoot a 35mm colour quality feature film, ninety minutes long with a Dolby stereo soundtrack for as little as $10 000. We did it at Raindance. We made the 35mm feature film Table 5 for just £278.38. Share our first-hand experience in making movies that look great on a minimal budget.

All formats, including film, HDV and HD, and even mobile phones are discussed

Elliot Grove has developed a clear process that will assist you in producing, directing and selling your first feature film. This is the step-by-step method which launches successful careers. Movies like Pi, The Blair Witch Project, Chuck and Buck, Clerks and El Mariachi were all made using the principles that are demonstrated through lecture and video clips on this course. The writers, directors or producers of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Waking Ned, Sliding Doors, Slumdog Millionare and Memento have all attended this intensive seminar before making their first films.

If you do not learn enough low budget tips to cover the cost of this course, we will refund you the difference.

This course is part lecture and part group discussion.

Day 1: Make The Movie

Learn a step-by-step process using proven cost-effective, lo-to-no budget filmmaking techniques by considering the best and most efficient ways to produce, direct, shoot and edit a saleable feature film.

Pre-Production: getting organised for an efficient shoot
Budgets from $500 to $1,000,000 are discussed in detail
Proven lo-budget short cuts and faking a million pound budget
Using sound and music to enhance production values
Getting professional actors
The essentials of the art and craft of film directing
More than fifty lo-budget shooting tips
Avoiding the three big filmmaking mistakes

Day 2: Sell The Movie

Discover the secrets and real facts behind marketing, selling and distributing your finished film throughout the world and the pre-planning you need to turn your movie into this year's cult classic, and yourself into a hot filmmaker.

NEW: Self distribution and the internet explained for filmmakers.

The movie game: presenting your first project to investors.
Distribution and marketing
Publicity: the essential ingredient to selling your film
PR kit: creating an effective package
Film buyers and film markets
Plotting the film festival route
Film financing: executing a strategy for a $50,000- $3,000,000 budget
Honing a workable pitch for your film.
The distribution deal


Writers looking for insider knowledge of how films are made and marketed, directors and producers seeking valuable information on how films and film careers are made, and anyone interested in the filmmaking process.



Elliot Grove has worked intensively with writers at Raindance since 1992. He explains the tricks of the trade from practical experience and reveals some of the latest paradigms through lecture, exercises and video clips.

Elliot Grove founded Raindance Film Festival in 1993, the British Independent Film Awards in 1998, and Raindance.TV in 2007.

He has produced over 150 short films, and 5 feature films. He has written eight scripts, one of which is currently in pre-production. His first feature film, TABLE 5 was shot on 35mm and completed for a total of £278.38. He teaches writers and producers in the UK, Europe, Japan and America.

He has written three books which have become industry standards: RAINDANCE WRITERS LAB 2nd Edition (Focal Press 2008),  RAINDANCE PRODUCERS LAB (2004) and 130 Projects to Get You Into Filmmaking (2009).

Open University awarded Elliot and Honourary Doctorate for services to film education in 2009.


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“It was great. A wealth of both information and inspiration. Well worth the money, and one of the best things I’ve done in the last 10 years.”- Ross Jackson

“The Lo-To-No Budget course is a must. Since taking it I have done three short films and a commercial. These were as an actress but I also met great people, have a greater understanding of the industry and I am writing my first script. I know how to write, market and distribute it. All hail Elliot Grove!” - Catherine Hall

"I just want to say thanks. I was on your course for lo-no budget filmmaking this weekend, and it was great. Really cleared some of the uncertainty in my head about the process of making a film, getting it distributed, etc. I'm going to go back to your book again now.. and I'll be back in touch pretty soon with news of my debut feature" - Daniel Johnson

"Thanks for an excellent course this weekend.  It was so full of demystified information, and 'how to', bringing us right into the world of film-making.  I particularly liked the last point about karma. Within that point, you see, there is a big link between doctoring and making films (Boy, have I got a build-up of good karma to take to the check-out!). Thanks a lot," - Jenny

"I attended the Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking course with Elliot Grove this weekend and would like to thank you and him, I came away feeling as though I had been in the trenches learning from the GURU, I'm proud to say that Elliot has given me a great foundation of information to draw from. Thank you - Sharleen Tutton

“The course gave me the confidence to go ahead with making my debut short film, which I'd already got in pre-production but was unsure of. Elliot gave me the confidence to go ahead with it and we shot it in Chester - on an almost non-existent budget, using many of his hints and tips - in January this year.” - Chris Smith

"Just to say a million thank yous for the course last weekend. It was absolutely fab! I totally enjoyed it and you inspired me to go forwards instead of staying still." - Louise Berne

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