This week I’ve been speaking so much about profession momentum.
Not concept.
Not inspiration.
Momentum.
And being the particular person I’m, I’m not going to simply speak about it.
I’m constructing it.
So I’m formally reopening Saturday Movie Faculty at Raindance, and this time, I’ve added one thing I’ve by no means supplied earlier than.
Right here’s what you have to know:
Saturday Movie Faculty consists of hands-on, step-by-step coaching designed that will help you cease “planning your movie profession” and truly begin constructing one.
Whether or not you’re a author, director, producer, or actor — that is about studying easy methods to:
- Develop concepts which are truly producible
- Make movies on the funds degree you’re realistically working at
- Construct repeatable story engines (not one-off ardour tasks)
- Flow into your work as a substitute of ready for permission
You do not want an agent.
You do not want £1 million.
and: You do not want to “break in.”
You want a system.
Inside Saturday Movie Faculty, we deal with precisely that — easy methods to transfer from thought → execution → viewers → revenue with out ready 5 years between tasks.
My aim is straightforward.
By the top, you’ll know:
- What sort of movie you have to be making proper now
- What funds degree is smart for you
- The best way to construction it so it’s finishable
- And easy methods to place it to festivals, platforms, or audiences
This isn’t movie concept. It’s movie follow.
And this time I’m including one thing new.
When you be a part of by Sunday at midnight, I’ll personally evaluation your movie idea earlier than you progress into growth.
You ship me:
- Your logline
- Your tough funds degree
- Your meant format (function, quick, vertical, sequence)
And I’ll inform you actually:
- If it’s viable
- How I’d reposition it
- What I’d minimize
- What I’d lean into
And the place it realistically sits in as we speak’s market
Most filmmakers don’t fail as a result of they will’t create.
They fail as a result of they construct the fallacious factor.
I’m eradicating that guesswork.
There are solely a handful of those private evaluation spots obtainable. As soon as Sunday midnight hits, they’re gone.
And that is the bottom worth Saturday Movie Faculty will ever be supplied at. After April nineteenth, the worth will increase.
When you’re severe about stopping the “in the future” cycle and truly making one thing this yr, be a part of us under:
[Join Saturday Film School and get your project personally reviewed]
That’s my pitch.
I’d like to see you inside, and extra importantly, I’d like to see your movie completed.
Cease ready.
Begin circulating.
— Elliot
P.S. That is for you if:
You’ve been “growing” for too lengthy
You’ve made one mission and stalled
Or, you’re uncertain what funds degree you need to truly function at
You need readability earlier than you make investments months of your life
P.P.S. The non-public mission evaluation disappears Sunday at midnight. After that, it’s normal enrolment solely.

Photograph Credit score: Bertie Watson
I based Raindance Movie Competition in 1993 as a result of the British movie trade was closed, well mannered, and congratulating itself whereas shutting new filmmakers out.
I co-founded the British Unbiased Movie Awards in 1998 as a result of British indie movie deserved greater than a shrug, a pat on the pinnacle, and a Tuesday evening screening.
Raindance didn’t begin as a model.It began as a riot — movie coaching with out gatekeepers, a competition with out permission, and a group constructed by filmmakers who weren’t ready to be invited in.
Later, we took it international — Toronto, Vancouver, New York, LA, Berlin, Brussels — as a result of impartial movie doesn’t belong to at least one metropolis, one class, or one accent.
I’ve produced 700+ quick movies and 7 options, together with Lethal Virtues (2014) and ALICE, which received the SXSW Grand Jury Prize (2019) not as a result of somebody “found” us, however as a result of the work earned its place.
I’ve written three books utilized by filmmakers worldwide as a result of too many programs taught compliance as a substitute of survival.
In 2009, I used to be awarded a PhD for providers to movie training, ironic, given that the majority of my profession has been about tearing down the foundations that training insisted you comply with.
I don’t imagine in ready for permission.I imagine in making work, constructing programs, and forcing the trade to catch up.
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