Career
He, thus, followed up formal art school training at Central Technical School in Toronto with a series of jobs behind the scenes in the film industry. Working as a scenic artist on 68 feature films and over 700 commercials in his native Toronto, he 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. Elliot moved to London in the late 1980s and in 1993 he launched the Film Festival, a festival devoted to independent filmmaking and its emerging talent.
In 2009 he was awarded a doctorate from the Open University at Plymouth College of Artist
Initially, catered mainly to American independent filmmakers, but over the years the participants have become more global. The 2012 festival line-up included 101 independent features and 150 shorts from 52 countries.
Elliot lectures on screenwriting and filmmaking throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Japan. In 1992 he set up the training division of which now offers short masterclasses on writing, directing, producing and marketing films on a budget.
His production company operates under the banner and is currently developing a slate of ten features.
In 2005 he produced The Living and the Dead an arty British chiller, the world premiere which was at the Rotterdam Film Festival in January 2006. Elliot stopped producing features between 2007 and 2012 because of his involvement with In early 2013 he re-launched production with the stylish thriller Love.Honour.Obey which started principal photography in May 2013. lieutenant was written by Mark Rogers and is directed by cult film director Ate de Jong (Drop Dead Fred).
