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Greetings!
Festival tickets on sale for 48 hours and 3 programmes have already sold out.
Get yourself a Raindance Festival Screening Pass.
It's the best way to guarantee a seat at our Opening Night Gala Humpday, or Closing Night Gala The Girlfriend Experience.
Then there are the parties and special events!
What about this coup! Now Confirmed! Billy Childish live at Raindance!
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And more! Read on...
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Films You Might Not Have Heard About
MY SUICIDE
A teen coming-of-age romantic dramedy about a media-obsessed geek and the most beautiful and twisted girl in school.
EASIER WITH PRACTICE
On a desperate road trip to promote his as yet unpublished novel, Davy Mitchell's life takes a surprising turn when he is seduced into a phone sex relationship with a mysterious woman named Nicole.
THE PHILOSOPHER KINGS
A journey through the halls of the most prestigious universities in America
to learn from the staff members who see it all - the janitors.
THE PANDA CANDY
A kind of Chinese Nine Songs, mapping a new generation of rebellious youth
and the story of lesbian love. Banned in China
Full Festival Lineup Here
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Chic Desires
We all want to be beautiful in our own way. One way people try to
obtain this beauty is through the clothes they wear. Another method is
to imitate the glamorous movie stars dancing across the silver screen.
So doesn't it seem natural that we often crave the fashions worn by our
favorite stars?
High fashion and "it" trends have always been a dominant concern in
society throughout all civilizations. For centuries, people have molded
and re-formed their natural body to fit the popular image of the time.
Fashion, whether it be the haute couture designs or the affordable
trendy styles, has been directly influenced by the trend-setting film
industry.
Read Chic Desires
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Script Secrets: The Big Idea will William C. Martell
Start with a story idea or a character, and Bill Martell will take you
step-by-step, finding the perfect supporting characters, amazing
dramatic scenes, dialogue that works on more than one level, actions
that show emotional conflict, and more.
Discover how to use your story's
theme to generate the other elements of the story, creating the
template for a tightly focused character and theme based screenplay.
This is not a machine or a formula, but a unique way to look at writing
your screenplay.
Refocused for 2009! SCRIPT SECRETS: THE BIG IDEA - For 2009 we'll be
using the movie GHOST as our primary example, with clips from that film
as well as NORTH BY NORTHWEST, THE MATRIX, AIRPLANE, THE BIG SLEEP and
DILLINGER.
What? Script Secrets - the Big Idea
When? Saturday/Sunday 10/11 October 10am - 5pm
Where? 10 Craven Street Rehearsal Rooms, London, next to Charing Cross Train Station
How Much? £250 + VAT/£125 + VAT for Festival Passholders
Raindance Premium Members get a 15% discount. Join Here
Call 0207 287 3833 or Book Online Here
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 In Praise of Film Festival Volunteers
Raindance has an office in Toronto, and James Cooper is one of the tireless workers for Raindance in Toronto. He is attending the Toronto International Film Festival which is on this week
He sent this report late last night
Read: In Praise of Film Festival Volunteers.
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Some new stuff on Raindance.tv
New promo/trailer area for the festival. More content added daily!
Molly's great account of the night of the Big Lunch party for those of you who missed it (or left early)
Johan Neethling's next installment of his video production diary.
Enjoy!
The Raindance.tv Team
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POP QUIZ
Which hurts more: hitting your elbow on a door frame or
getting blasted by a laser?
The obvious answer is the laser blast, but
it isn't the correct answer. If I were to show you a film clip where a
man hit his elbow on a door frame, you'd go "ouch". You'd understand
the pain and empathize with the man. But if I showed you a "Star Trek"
clip where a laser dissolves a man, it wouldn't effect you. You've
never been hit by a laser blast, you have no idea what it feels like.
Read Bill Martell's Personal Injury
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Premium Members - Save £7.99
Raindance Producer's Lab
Reg Price £27.99
Our Price: £20.00
Including postage and shipping
Everything a budding independent filmmaker needs to know in order to
navigate the film industry. This book consistently wins plaudits from
readers.
When Elliot Grove started writing this book, he had in mind a thin
volume with the tips and tricks he had picked up over 25 years working
as a scenic artist, set designer and founder of the Raindance Film
Festival. "It just grew and grew" says Elliot of the 200,000 word book.'Indispensible,' says Dov S-S Simens.,'and Elliots voice and personality shine throughout this wonderful book.'
Buy Raindance Producer's Lab Online Here
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5 More Films You Might Not Have Heard About
We are really excited about our lineup at this year's festival. Brand new films, hot new talent - all waiting to be discovered!
CARMO - HIT THE ROAD
A Spanish smuggler driving through Brazil is assaulted and has his load stolen.
HUMPDAY
It's been a decade since Ben (Duplass) and Andrew (Leonard) were the bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled down and found a job, wife, and home. Andrew took the alternate route as a vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew shows up unannounced on Ben's doorstep, they easily fall back into their old dynamic of macho one-upmanship.
THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE
The highly anticipated new feature from Stephen Soderbergh (Che, Ocean's Eleven), returning to the style of his breakout hit sex, lies and videotape, with adult film actress Sasha Grey stepping sexily into the lead role.
MODERN LOVE IS AUTOMATIC
A new motion picture about an apathetic nurse who moonlights as a dominatrix, her aspiring model roommate and the sad, strange world they live in.
STUCK
Steve Balderson's homage to film noir women-in-prison films. Faithfully
re-producing the genre with a modern, tongue-in-cheek twist, expect all the hallmarks of a classic prison movie complete with a wrongly accused heroine, hard boiled dames, diabolical alliances, forbidden love, cat-fighting cuties, a sadistic warden, and corrupt prison guards.
Full Lineup Here
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Lo To No Budget Filmmaking
Want to get a movie made? Running short of cash? This information packed weekend shows you how to make a movie [Day 1] and finance, market and sell a movie [Day 2].
Few people know more about filmmaking, or know more filmmakers than Raindance founder, Elliot Grove. Come spend a weekend with the master of low budget independent filmmaking.
What? Lo To No Budget Filmmaking
When? Saturday/Sunday 17/18 October 9:30 - 6pm
Where? 10 Craven Street Rehearsal Rooms, London nr Charing Cross Station
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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Quoted: On Directing - Take Your Pick:
"Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest that an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator."
Laurence Olivier
"The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it."
John Huston
"Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know."
Jonathan Miller
"Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre."
Orson Welles
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Stuff We Really Like
Indiewire.com - cool news and info on indies
Withoutabox.com - submit your films for festivals
Filmfestival.com - great info on international film festivals
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Three Miles North Of Molkam
This film is out right now and we think you should check out Three Miles North Of Molkam
Interview with the co-directors Robert Cannan and Corina MacFarlane
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Coffee Break
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Something to do in that sneaky 5 mins when you are on 'coffee break'
Texts From Last Night
Ranging from the lewd to the bizarre, the messages on Texts From Last Night are almost always hilarious.
The Twitter-esque compactness of a text is the perfect form for a pithy one-liner, and the entries on this website provide strangely addictive reading
See if you can scan TextsFromLastNight before the boss gets back.
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Working The Net
Working the Net
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I will not read your f*cking script
We know you've been working very hard on your screenplay, but
before you go looking for some professional feedback, you might keep in
mind the following piece by A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson.
Read: I will not read your f*cking script
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Renounced
If it is easy for filmmakers to turn a decent novel into a rubbish film (see last week's newsletter), it must be easy to turn a rubbish film into a decent novel, right?
Not so, it would appear. In the crazy world of official novelisations and official prequel novelisations, the books are often worse than mediocre films which spawn them.
Read the rest...
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The Raindance Team
Suzanne Ballantyne
James Burbidge
Frederica Byron
Julian Chappelle
Gabriela Dworecki
Anna-Mi Fredriksson
Elliot Grove
Zuri Goikoetxea
Meredith Hicks
Grace Leong
Rory O'Donnell
Theresa Norton
Will Pearce
Joe Pearshouse
Xavier Rashid
Max Sather
Amelie Thille
Chris Thomas
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Amnesia:
Man With A Movie Camera
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Composed as a meditation on the joys of life in Soviet industrial city, Man With a Movie Camera was a seminal piece of work - a bold step forward for cinema as an independent art-form and the early use of many, now standard, new techniques.
Read more and see where to watch Man With A Movie Camera For Free
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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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Hummus Bros
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Hummus Bros is about feeding you homemade hummus with mouth watering toppings, scooped off your own individual bowl with warm pitta bread, and accompanied by refreshing salads and juices.
hbros.co.uk/menu
88 wardour street, soho w1f 0th | 37-63 southampton row, holborn wc1b 4da
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