5 things filmmakers can learn from Lost
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Love it or loathe it, Lost worked
Lost pulled in huge audiences for 6 seasons and made the majority of them rabid fans. Even if you can't stand its mystery-a-minute style, you have to admit that it was a successful TV show by any or all means of measurement. So, what can we as screenwriters learn from Lost? Find out...
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Documentary Foundation Certificate
You can't just point your camera at anyone and call it a documentary. This course will teach both the practicalities of shooting a documentary and the skill of creating a strong emotional story.
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Maverick Screenwriting
Maverick screenwriting will help you create that 'old story with a new twist' that every exec is looking for. Launch your career with scripts that don't need big names to entice and enthrall. What? Maverick ScreenwritingWhen? Weekend 27/28th November Where? St George's Church, WC1A 2HRHow Much? Members get a 15% discount Call us on 0207 287 3833 or Book Online |
| Raindance Success Story
BIFA nominated Debs Garnder-Paterson got in touch with us recently to remind us about her start in the industry - as an intern and photographer during the 2002 Raindance Festival!
It was there she met a casting director who gave her a job as a casting assistant and the rest is (and will continue to become) history.
Debs' film, Africa United, went on general release on the 22nd October this year.
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Charity Rave - Nostalgia
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Take a trip down memory lane this Xmas as Nostalgia join forces with Genre for a huge one-off warehouse party with some of the biggest names in dance music history playing classic tunes in 2 rooms. Put on your raving shoes and get down to Electrowerkz in London, EC1 on Friday 3rd December for a night like they used to be....
Tickets are £10 and all profits go to the breast cancer charity Too Many Women.
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Imagem Production Music
With over 100,000 tracks, from an expanding roster of catalogues, ImagemPM is the largest independent Production Music publisher in the UK.
Based in central London, we work with a host of exceptional and award-winning composers and producers from across the globe that can create custom/bespoke music to brief within 48 hours. We know searching for music can be a bit daunting, which is why we offer free searches. We are also on hand to help with all your licensing questions.
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| Raindance around the world |
New York
Does Your Trailer Work? November 15th
Toronto
The Art of Documentary starts November 18th
Brussels
Certificat du Scénariste Starts 16 November
Budapest
Writing For Low-Budget Films November 25 |
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Blog of the Week
You need to be reading Raindance tutor William Martell's coverage of the American Film Market.
Things We Like
Pretty pictures from an aggregator of Google news.
newsmap
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| Mavericks
"Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive."
Alan Rickman
"Ya know, we're gonna take every aspect of the crisis and look at it, and then we're gonna ask ourselves, 'What would a maverick do in this situation?' And then, ya know, we'll do that."
Sarah Palin, played by Tina Fey on 'SNL'
"Each movie had to embody the rock spirit of artful defiance."
Criteria for Rolling Stone's 100 Maverick Movies
"That's right! Ice... Man. I am dangerous."
Maverick, played by Tom Cruise in 'Top Gun'
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Our homegrown version of the Black List
Please find enclosed the hottest 35 unproduced film scripts in the UK. These have been voted on by agents, producers and execs and you'll be seeing many of them on the big screen in the next 5 years. We've got the Brit List broken down by votes, with loglines and .pdfs of the full scripts we could find. The Brit List
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The London Raindance Festival Team
Alaina Antonelli
Suzanne Ballantyne
Christian Bell
James Burbidge
Frederica Byron
Julian Chapelle
Laura Clark
Elliot Grove
Rebecca Hall
Lauren Mahomes
Justin McGoldrick
Rory O'Donnell
Margherita Pellegrino
Chris Presswell
Xavier Rashid
Chris Thomas
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