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Last chance to become a Raindance festival benefactor - from as little as £150.00
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Tarantino vs Hitchcock
There's a big difference between showing and telling in the director's chair.
No one displays this better than classic directors Alfred Hitchcock and Quintin Tarantino.
Although these directors are decades apart and seemingly dissimilar, upon closer examination their movies are of like minds.
Enjoy Tarantino vs Hitchcock
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Behind the 8 ball
Thanks to a flood of festival benefactors, Raindance is now able to nearly pay for a much needed HD projector enabling us to screen the ever increasing amount of hi-def films we're sent.
We are looking for another 8 festival benefactors to let our supplier know it is Mission Accomplished.
Become a festival benefactor from just £150.00
Why not adopt a screening?
Each screening costs us £2,000 to organise.
Become a screening sponsor for as little as £500.
Get tickets to the screening. See the list of fantastic confirmed films.
Interested? Call Elliot or Joe at 0207 287 3833.
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22 Steps to Great Storytelling
We are really excited that John Truby has agreed to return to London for his 22 Step Great Screenwriting class next weekend.
Truby's 22-Step Great Screenwriting paradigm is the most modern, exciting approach to storytelling to be developed this generation.
His approach is flexible and dynamic, and enhances stories that have been written for the 21st century.
His tools for writing are considered in America to be the most advanced and the easiest to understand.
John Truby's 22-Step Great Screenwriting class creates the new scripts that are fast-paced, powerful and more exciting than three-act scripts.
Top professionals use fundamentally different tools than amateur writers. Yet most books and courses on screenwriting teach a one-size-fits-all approach, useful only to beginners. Isn't it time you stepped up to the professional ranks? This course will teach you literally hundreds of expert tools and techniques that allow you to compete with the best.
This flagship class has been taken by over 30,000 students worldwide, and wins awards year after year as the best screenwriting course in America. Truby continues to serve as a story consultant to the major studios, including Sony Pictures, HBO, Disney Studios, Alliance Atlantis, Cannell Studios, BBC, MTV Sweden, RAI in Italy, and many others. He recently worked on the BBC/Disney feature-length nature documentary, EARTH, which received high marks for the quality of the story.
No screenwriting instructor works with more established writers.
What? 22 Step Great Storytelling Class with John Truby
When? Saturday/Sunday 11/12 September 9:30 - 6pm
Where? Central London
How Much? £250.00 + VAT
Raindance Premium Members get a 15% discount. Join Here
Call 0207 287 3833 or Book Online Here
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NEW: Raindance Screening Pass
Add more value
£150 / £125 for Raindance Premium Members and Festival friends *
These include:
+ Opening & Closing Night Galas Tickets.
+ All Raindance screenings at The Apollo
+ Access to The Raindance Film Café, The Hospital, the Phoenix Artists Bar
+ Special Events including Live Music Performances
+ Limited edition 17th Festival T-shirt
+ Limited edition 17th Festival Bag
Book Online Now to guarantee your Raindance Pass
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RDTV
This September we're celebrating Jarl Olsen! The prolific commercial director and occasional actor who created the acclaimed Ministry of Information series. You can watch 15 of his films, and learn about his fascination with finding stuff in boxes here
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X Marks The Spot
The entire concept of an independent film is totally strange.
All art is independent. The mere fact of labeling any art form as
independent is redundant. Independence is the only true state of art,
and if cinema is an art form, then surely all films are independent. This is why we don't talk about independent opera companies, or
independent ballerinas. We don't debate whether or not a museum or art
gallery, a writer or sculptor is independent: we just assume that they
are, and if they weren't we'd soon ignore them.
More A-Z of Independent Film
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Premium Members - this week's offer
Save £25.00 on a Raindance Film Festival Screening Pass
Get your screening pass here
Not Raindance Premium Member? Join Here
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RSS
We typed 'indie film uk" into Google - this is what came up:
Shane Meadows embraces television
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Filmmakers Foundation Diploma
The Filmmaker's Foundation Certificate is
designed to provide new and potential filmmakers with the ammunition to
tackle their first short or feature film. This
course equips attendees with the tools and skills to start making their
film career.
Week 1: Writing for Low Budget Films 15 September 6:30 - 9pm
Writing your first movie but have a low
budget? This week we will concentrate on how to get the most out of
your script, locations and actors and how to make sure these elements
will be in line with a low budget.
Week 2: Essentials of Lo-to-No Budget Filmmaking 22 September 6:30 - 9pm
Making movies can be very expensive but
debut films are usually made on miniscule budgets. A successful
filmmaker can make the ordinary seem extraordinary and offer
exceptional production values.
Week 3: Director's Toolkit 13 October 6:30 - 9pm
New directors
need to learn to communicate their vision to their cast and crew in
order to get the best results on screen.
Week 4: Introduction to Production 20 October 6:30 - 9pm
Learn how
to choose the right equipment and maximise its potential for the edit
of your movie.
Week 5: Breaking Into The Film Industry 27 October 6:30 - 9pm
Learn how to identify areas
of interest to you, and how to approach the right people - the people
who can help you, or who can hire you.
What? Filmmakers Foundation Certificate
When? Starts Tuesday 15 September 6:30 - 9pm
Where? 10 Craven Street Rehearsal Studios, near Charing Cross station
How Much? £165.00 + VAT
Raindance Premium Members get a 15% discount. Join Here
Call 0207 287 3833 to register or Book Online Here
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Quoted
It's festival time, so why not blow our own trumpet:
"Raindance. I like the name. It sounds dignified."
Michael Madsen
Actor - Reservoir Dogs / Kill Bill: Vol 1 & 2 / Donnie Brasco
Raindance Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards make a unique and very special contribution to independent film in the UK. They should be taken extremely seriously"
Mike Leigh
Director - All or Nothing / Topsy-Turvy / Secrets and Lies / Naked
"Raindance does an indispensable job supporting independent film and provides a distinctive voice in world cinema"
Paul Greengrass
Director - Bloody Sunday / United 93 / The Bourne Supremacy
"I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited."
The great character actor Vincent Schiavelli, who sadly died in 2005, planning a film festival not far off from how Raindance began all those years ago...
Do you have a bedroom or sofa free in Central London? Can you billet an attending filmmaker? If you think you can, email festival@raindance.co.uk
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Stuff We Really Like
Indiewire- winner of a Webby for Best Film Website, and full of news, opinions and useful comment.
Their free daily newsletter is a must.
Co-Founded 12 years ago by Karol Martesko Fenster who now works at Babelgum in New York City. Karol and Raindance have had a mutual love affair since 1997.
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Top Tweets
micro blogging on steroids - 140 characters or less:
+ Star Fucking gets simpler: Top 10 Celebrity Twitter Feeds
+ @TedHope The List of Blogs That Will Cover Unreleased Films just got a whole lot longer | Truly Free Film |
+ A-Z of Independent Film
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Win Reckoning Day on DVD
What happens when a budding filmmaker has no budget, but a script, some actors and bucketloads of blood?
Reckoning Day is the debut feature from Julian Gilbey, who went on to make the BAFTA nominated Rolling With The Nines and Rise of the Footsoldier. It's an all-action shoot-out fest, in the mould of low budget favourites such as El Mariachi and The Evil Dead, and demonstrates how calling cards such as this can lead to bigger and better budgets...
The film is released on September 14th through the following link
We have five DVD's to give away!
To be in with a chance of winning, email james@revolvergroup.com and tell him who runs the Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking course at Raindance...
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Coffee Break
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Something to do in that sneaky 5 mins when you are on 'coffee break'
LivePlasma.com
The ultimate cinephile website that is as visually impressive as it is practical. Find new films that you haven't seen yet, based on the one's that you like already. It's also possible to do it with music, but who listens to music?
See if you can scan LivePlasma.com before the boss gets back.
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Working The Net
Working the Net
Got something? Need something?
Email us at info@raindance.co.uk
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Virtual Strangers are a group of international musicians who create eclectic original music. Fans often describe what we do as 'soundtrack music', so we thought it might be interesting in collaborating with an independent filmmaker. Please contact Guy Pople @ www.virtualstrangers.net , for more info and samples. ****** Riverside StudiosShira and her team put together a fresh, hip and original collection of films every single week.Those who live near Hammersmith are really lucky to have Riverside Studios - to say nothing of their terrace overlooking historic Barnes Bridge. And Raindance Premium members get £1.00 off entry.
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Renounced
Please read out loud the following in the style of Gravelly Voiced Hollywood Trailer Narrator:
One million PR men.
Thousands of movies.
One logline.
Sound familiar? Perhaps that's because this format of logline is now used on one out of every three film posters in the UK. Using the rhetorical power of the triad is taught on the GCSE curriculum. That the syntactic complexity of this logline wouldn't impress a fifteen year-old speaks volumes. Moreover, if a logline is a synecdoche for the entire film, then a lack of originality is the last thing that I'd like to see.
We at Raindance urge you to renounce this logline format in favour of something more original. We appreciate that it is the easy option.
After the tiring process of making a film you don't want to sit up half the night coming up with a new way to write a slogan. And we also appreciate that its popularity only underlines it's effectiveness (at least one culprit is screening at Raindance this year). But please, if we are not to be drowned out of the theatres by lists of three ever-decreasing numbers of people/units of time/chances, then we must make a stand.
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Thumbs Up
The Toronto International Film Festival is taking place from Thursday
September 10th to Saturday September 19th. There are more than 300
extraordinary films screening at this year's festival, as well as some
valuable industry programming.
Please visit here for more information.
We
encourage you to check out some of the films at the festival this year
and support your fellow filmmakers. Help us celebrate the art of Local,
National and International Filmmaking!
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The Raindance Team
Suzanne Ballantyne
Frederica Byron
Julian Chappelle
Gabriela Dworecki
Anna-Mi Fredriksson
Elliot Grove
Zuri Goikoetxea
Grace Leong
Rory O'Donnell
Joe Pearshouse
Xavier Rashid
Amelie Thille
Max Sather
Chris Thomas
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Amnesia: The Kuchar Brothers
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This year, Raindance Film Festival will be screening "It Came From Kuchar", a biopic about sixties filmmaking twins Mike and George Kuchar. Max Sather gives some background to the life and work of these independent heroes.
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Thinking of a film course?
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We are not a film school.
We are a film company that has a training programme.
We won't teach filmmaking
We make filmmakers
For a course catalogue catalogue@raindance.co.uk
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