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Greetings!

Welcome to this newsletter from the very International Raindance Film Festival.

Raindance offices are now open in New York, Toronto, Berlin, Budapest and Brussels, we've got loads of great events lined up all over the world.

Coming up next month we're launching a series of classes in Raindance Toronto, covering everything from writing your script through to selling the finished product.

Whether you're a filmmaker, director or writer the only way you'll perfect your craft is practise, practise, and yet more practise.

Lisa Bradburn, who is Director of Business Development for Raindance Toronto, has put together a great article to help you do just that.

Get started with her 5 Must-Do's to Get it Done.

Elliot Grove
Founder,
Raindance Film Festival
British Independent Film Awards

In This Issue

Welcome to the Extraordinary

Courses Coming Up

Raindance News

Raindance International

Top 10 Distribution Tools

Welcome to the extraordinary

The extraordinary is a feeling, a destination, a state of mind.

Raindance has teamed up with InterCasino to launch an extraordinary short film competition, and we want you to express what extraordinary means to you in your short film.

Find out more about how your 40-second film could win you a screening at the Raindance Film Festival and a trip to the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 in the Judging and Prizes section.

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Planning an efficient shooting schedule

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If you haven't heard of Ruba Nadda,
you soon will...

You might have heard some tricks of the trade, but you'd still be astonished by director and writer, Ruba Nadda, for shooting TIFF's 2009Best Canadian Feature Film, Cairo Time in only 25 days!

Nadda and her crew set out to Cairo, amidst 25 million people inhabiting the city, they battled the heat, censorship, uncontrollable shooting locations, and perhaps the most problematic of all, poor dry cleaning services - and of course, all the sightseeing they had to do on the film set.

Read: Planning an efficient shooting schedule
Our Fabulous Intern interviews Nada here

A couple of courses

Live!Ammunition!

Pitch your idea to top film industry executives during Raindance's famous pitching event.

This time our panel includes Beau Rogers (Producer), Martin Carr (Producer), Matthew Baker (Acquisitions and Development) and Kate Lawrence (Head of Development).

Your idea heard by the big names in British Film.

Buy Your Ticket Now

What? Live!Ammunition!
When? 21 June, 6:30 - 8:30
Where? Apollo Cinema West End
How Much? £13 (FREE to Raindance Premium Members here)

More info

Book Now

Lo To No Budget Filmmaking

With budgets being slashed, and many film funding schemes a thing of the past, it's more important than ever to be able to use your resources wisely.

In this course, you'll learn how to make a feature film with next to nothing, and then, on Day 2, learn how to market it and make money.

This is the class taken by Christopher Nolan, Guy Ritchie, Matthew Vaughn and the 1st ever Raindance intern - Edgar Wright.

What? Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking
When? Saturday/Sunday 19/20 June, 9:30 - 6:00
Where? Central London
How Much? £250 + VAT = £293.75 (Raindance Premium Members get 15% discount)

More info

Book Now

Raindance News

Raindance has teamed up with Latitude this summer.

We offer you the opportunity to make a film at Latitude this year and if it's good enough, have it screened at this year's Raindance Film Festival in October.

We will also be hosting 2 courses to help you getting started: Shooting With Zero Budget and 60 Minute Film School.

If you want to participate please email latitude@raindance.co.uk

Don't Forget: Only 8 days left to Sumbit to Raindance - Europe's largest independent film festival.

Final Submission Deadline - 18th June

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Hey Elliot!
Our movie 'EXAM' IS OUT TODAY IN THE UK!
It's here on DVD and Blu-Ray, Candidates!
GO BUY at Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury, HMV, etc.!
GO RENT at Blockbuster, Lovefilm, etc.!
Or GO RENT AND BUY for extra brownie points!

Thanks,
Stuart and Gareth

[Nominated Best Film Raindance 2009]
[Nominated British Independent Film Awards 2009]

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One of our Fabulous Interns in Toronto, Ellie Ventura has been invited to submit her award-winning film, Crema Suprema, to an online
competition. Take a look at Ventura's latest work and don't forget to vote!

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Quoted...

This week, with Live! Ammunition! upon us on the 21st, I thought I would look for good quotes on pitching.

Sadly this meant I got a lot of quotes about baseball....but what the hell, some seemed strangely appropriate:

... to make matters more confusing, here's a filmmaker using the metaphor of talking about baseball pitching with regards film pitching
(my head hurts now):

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild.
A few are caught.
Joseph Barbera

Compiled by:
Raindance Course Director Rory O'Donnell

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.
Dennis Eckersley

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
Ferguson Jenkins

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.
Mickey Rivers

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
Sandy Koufax

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.
Whitey Ford

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
Yogi Berra

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