Elliot Grove

Elliot Grove is a Canadian-born film producer who founded both the Raindance Film Festival in 1993 and the British Independent Film Awards in 1998.

Elliot Grove
Born
Canada
Occupation(s)screenwriter, film producer

Grove teaches screenwriting and filmmaking throughout the UK, Europe, North America and Japan.[1]

As of 2012, he has produced over 150 short films, and 5 feature films.[1]

Early life and education

Growing up in a Mennonite household, Grove was unable to watch TV or films. At the age of 16, he watched his first film, Lassie Comes Home, and was subsequently "hooked on cinema forever."[2][3]

He followed up formal art school training at Central Technical School in Toronto with a series of jobs behind the scenes in the film industry.

Career

Working as a scenic artist on 68 feature films and over 700 commercials in his native Toronto, Grove developed a distaste for the wasted resources on set and union bureaucracy that prevented aspiring filmmakers like himself from getting their own features off the ground.[4] In 1992, he founded Raindance Film Festival, a festival devoted to promoting independent filmmaking.[1][5]

Grove established the British Independent Film Awards in 1998 and launched the IPTV platform Raindance TV in 2007.[1] He also founded the Independent Film Trust, a charitable organization that empowers children facing disabilities or disadvantaged circumstances to express themselves through the art of filmmaking.[5]

In July 2009, Grove was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Open University at Plymouth College of Art, in recognition of his contribution to education in independent film.[5]

In December 2021, Grove received the Impact Award at the first ever British Short Film Awards.[6]

Production

Grove's production company operates under the Raindance banner. Upholding the ethos of Raindance, he wrote, produced and directed 1997's feature, Table 5, for just over £200.[7][8]

In 2005 Grove produced The Living and the Dead. He stopped producing features between 2007 and 2012 because of his involvement with Raindance. As of 2012, he had produced over 150 short films, and 5 feature films.[9]

In early 2013, Grove re-launched production with Deadly Virtues: Love.Honour.Obey.

Bibliography
  • Grove, Elliot (2001). Raindance Writers Lab: How to Write and Sell the Hot Script. Focal Press. ISBN 9780240516363.
  • Grove, Elliot (2004). Raindance Producer’s Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking. Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780240516998.

References
  1. "Low-to-No Budget Filmmaking". The Guardian. 29 February 2012. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  2. Robertson, Stephanie (20 January 2016). "Interview with Elliot Grove, founder of Raindance Film Festival". Film Inquiry. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  3. Tassel, Joan Van (10 September 2012). Managing Electronic Media: Making, Moving and Marketing Digital Content. CRC Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-136-03162-5.
  4. "CanadianFilmMaker – Elliot Grove". Archived from the original on 24 April 2008. Retrieved 11 July 2008.
  5. Slawinski, Emma. "Honorary doctorate for Raindance founder Elliot Grove". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  6. Yossman, K. J. (3 December 2021). "'Doctor Who' Star Peter Capaldi, Raindance Founder Elliot Grove Among Winners at First Ever British Short Film Awards". Variety. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  7. "howies Little Big Voice: who spoke? Elliot Grove". Archived from the original on 15 April 2008. Retrieved 11 July 2008.
  8. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286191
  9. "Low-to-No Budget Filmmaking". The Guardian. 29 February 2012. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
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