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Greetings!
 Mr Bond, I've been expecting you, In the spirit of Raindance's global expansion I felt an appropriate picture was needed. You had the same photo of James for weeks anyway and I'm sure you need a change. Our new office in Berlin has opened in time for the Berlin Film Festival, where we'll be running one of our famed Live!Ammo! pitching panels. But back at home we've started the New Year with a bang, with over 100 people coming to Open House and the 99 Minute Film School each, and the Directing Essentials evening on Tuesday being completely sold out (sorry to those turned away!) The courses term starts in earnest next week with the Filmmaker's, Writer's and Director's Foundation Certificates. Any questions on any courses give me a call in the office, it's usually me who picks up! Have Fun, Rory O'Donnell Course Director |
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Rate the first 10 pages of your script
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Give your script a fighting chance.
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NEW - Let Me Direct!
Want to be a director? Let Hollywood helmer Simon Hunter guide you down an optimal career path; from making your first short films to stepping up to a feature and making a name for yourself.
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Lo-to-No Budget Filmmaking
In 5 evenings we demystify the filmmaking industry, taking you through writing, directing, producing and selling your film. The perfect place to get your start in the film business What? Lo-to-No Budget FilmmakingWhen? 1 weekend, 26/27th February Where? St George's Church, WC1A 2HRHow Much? £249.95 + VAT Members get a 15% discount Call us on 0207 287 3833 or Book Online |
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Raindance partners the Titanic Film Festival
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Raindance has formed a partnership with the Hungary's foremost international film festival: Titanic. We will be sharing a number of British and Hungarian films to showcase over the coming year.
Read more or visit the Raindance Budapest and the Titanic Festival sites.
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What's going on at Raindance
Raindance tutor Col Spector's feature film Honeymooner is released this Friday. Londoners can catch it next week at the Empire Leicester Sq. before it goes on tour around the country. Raindance10 short film Lin has been nominated for a BAFTA. Good luck to all those involved. Raindance09 feature Crying with Laughter is now available on DVD. Do the right thing for indie film, and yourself and buy this wonderfully dark movie. Want to help a Raindance Filmmaker out? Check out Oscar nom'd Frederick Marx's project Boys Become Men, on Kickstarter. |
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Screenwriters Needed
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A UK based Independent Film Production Company is seeking to commission a writer to create a screenplay based on our original premise for adaptation to a full length feature film. The writer should have either a motion picture track record or specific knowledge about North African culture as the movie will sensitively handle the subjects particular to that geographical region and Europe in general.
Please respond with supporting letter an CV to: info@bravig.com
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Short Film Contest
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The 2011 Short Film Contest is open for writers from the UK and internationally to submit short film scripts. The winning script will receive a cash prize of £250 and their film will produced by Impasse Pictures with a budget of up to £25,000. Runners up may also have their film produced. There is no entry fee.
The closing date is currently set at Monday 14 March with winner(s) notified within six weeks and film(s) produced during the summer.
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Artist to EntrepreneurStarts Feb 23rd This course covers everything from initial script idea through to marketing & distribution, from a business and creative perspective.
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Live!Ammunition! at the Berlinale
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Raindance returns to the Berlinale, where we'll be putting on our world famous Live!Ammunition! pitching event on Saturday 12th February, 16:00-18:00
Put 5€ in the hat, pitch to our panel of industry experts and the winning pitch walks off with the money. Impress a development exec enough, and they might just ask for your script.
Live!Ammo! will be happening at the Homebase Lounge which you can find a map to here. The Homebase Lounge has been working with the Berlinale since 2004 and is a social venue, located in the heart of Berlin. They specialize in providing conference, reception, and party space for the tech- and social-media sector. |
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Short Film ProjectStarts Jan 27th Get together with a group of fellow-minded filmmakers and shoot a short film with Raindance!
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The Director's CraftStarts Feb 21st Learn about the cinematic language over the course of 10 evenings
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The Virtual French Film Festival
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The first entirely virtual French film festival is well underway. Watch the films online, then vote and comment on your favourites. Six prizes will be awarded for the shorts and features in competition, which include the Cannes film Les Beaux Gosses.
Rates:
Feature film: 1.99€ / feature films pack: 9.99€
Short film: 0.99€ / shorts pack: 4.99€
full access pack: 13.99€
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Blog of the Week
Listen in on one man's dreams as his wife regularly records his sleeptalking.
Things We Like
Park Chan-Wook's latest film is shot on the iphone 4. Read up on it here.
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The importance of perseverance
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it is going to survive; and if it is not, well, it will not. Sam Mendes "My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker. You have to have passion if you're going to deal with this subject. Patience, because it's going to take a long time to get there. And perseverance: keep at it, keep at it. Robert Wise I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Albert Einstein |
10 Common elements of great films
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Great films have a lot in common
Films as seemingly different as The King's Speech, Let The Right One in and Slumdog Millionaire, all have several things in common. Whether it's a fresh approach to structure, or a firm concept of their genre, truly excellent movies share more traits than you might think. Find out the 10 common elements of great films.
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The London Raindance Festival Team
Suzanne Ballantyne
Christian Bell
James Burbidge
Frederica Byron
Julian Chapelle
Laura Clark
Elliot Grove
Raquel Haber
Liam Heath
Tanya Mokdad
Rory O'Donnell
Margherita Pellegrino
Daniel Polis
Xavier Rashid
Chris Thomas
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