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Canadian-born film producer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Elliot Grove | |
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| 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]
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.[citation needed]
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]
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.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]
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