 Elliot Grove worked as a scenic artist on 68 feature films and more than 700 commercials before moving to London in the late 1980s and launching the Raindance Film Festival, a festival devoted to independent filmmaking and its emerging talent. He also lectures on screenwriting and filmmaking throughout the U.K. and Europe, and in 1992 set up the training division of Raindance, which now offers nearly two dozen evening and weekend masterclasses on writing, directing, producing and marketing a feature film. In 1998, Grove founded the prestigious British Independent Film Awards. He wrote, produced and directed the 1997 feature Table 5. His production company operates under the Raindance banner and is currently developing a slate of 10 features. In 2005, he produced The Living in the Home of the Dead, which premiered at the 2006 Rotterdam Film Festival. He is currently producing three more features scheduled to start production in winter 2006. In 2001, he published Raindance Writers Lab: How to Write and Sell the Hot Script. His second book, Raindance Producer’s Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking, was published in 2004. He is writing a children’s novel, which will be published in 2007.
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