Steve Rainbow’s Film Biography in brief 

Steve’s first attempt at film-making won the Best Short Drama Award at the 8th Birmingham Film Festival in 1992.

The following year he gained a place at the London Film School but couldn't afford to attend, so instead he put his time and energy into learning the process of film making by working on other peoples films as a runner, camera assistant, boom operator and first AD. He then returned to creating his own work and also helped establish The Universal Language of Film; a training scheme designed to teach socially excluded people the skills and techniques of film-making.

Since then he has developed a career as a film writer, director and producer, and worked on projects with artists both in the UK and abroad. Of his 10 short films to date, 7 have been screened at international film festivals, 3 have been short listed for various awards, and 4 have gone on to win first place.
In 2009, Steve’s style of ‘total film-making’, meant that he was recognised as an Auteur Film Maker at the London Short Film Festival.

He is currently developing 2 feature length films as well as The Gemini Project, which supports businesses and charities with promotional films.

 Steve Rainbow’s Film Biography in more detail  

Steve first thought about film making whilst studied Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic in 1988. His first film entitled PROFILE OF AN ARTIST, won the Best Short film award at the 8th Birmingham Film & Television Festival in 1992.
In 1993 he was offered a place at the London Film School but couldn't afford to attend. He moved to London regardless and in 1994 attended a 2 week film course run by Panico. This was his first and only official training in film making. The next 4 years saw Steve working on other people's short and feature films in various roles such as set designer, camera assistant, boom operator, lighting camera man, actor and first assistant director.
In 1998 he made his second film called PIG IN A POKE, which won critical acclaim and wad short listed for several awards. This film was to set the comedic theme for Steve's work over the next 10 years.
He followed this in 1999 with DEAR SANTA.
Steve then started to write the first of his feature film scripts and supplemented his income by working with homeless people. This led to the creation of THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF FILM, which was a training course designed to help socially excluded people express themselves through the medium of film.
He then shot BLACK & WHITE, the short film about three guys ordering three pints of Guinness, which screened across Europe and brought a new word into the lexicon. The film was shot in 3 hours on a micro budget.
Whilst attending the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Steve devised a rough first version of what is now the 'Virtual Backpack', by emailing personal information to himself (such as flight and hotel details, contact names and film screening times). He found it very useful when his bag didn’t arrive at Nice International airport. Four years later Steve’s idea was submitted to the Microsoft IT design award 2008, on behalf of the charity St Basils and it subsequently won. In this year he started an intensive writing course funded by ScreenWM and run by The Script Factory, which lead to the start of him writing more seriously, and produced his second feature film script DEATH DUTY.
In 2005 he moved from London to Birmingham and secured funding from ScreenWM for his black & white comedy AUTO DA FE, which went on to win the Best Comedy Film at the International Sci-Fi and Horror Film Festival in Phoenix, USA.
In 2006 Steve won the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival pitch for his eye watering short about the hottest curry in the world, which incidentally is a NAGA. It screened on Channel Five at prime time on Christmas Day of that same year and was short listed for several awards. He also stared writing the feature length script called JACK IN THE BOX, which is an adaptation of his previous short Pig in a Poke.
In 2008 Steve completed the incredibly low budget film A SMALL SILENT FILM ABOUT DEATH which has also screened across Europe and America.
In February 2009 he wrote the feature script N.F.A. and in March he started The Gemini Project. He currently has 2 feature film ideas in development.