It seems like only a couple of days ago that this year’s Raindance Festival closed but already the team has opened submissions for next year’s festival. This year over 138 short films were featured and films from over 35 countries featured. In my coverage over the past couple of years I’ve tended to focus on the feature films but I’ve been contacted by some short film-makers and have been reassessing my thoughts on short films…
Raindance Award Winners Announced
6 October 2012 by Leave a Comment
As the 20th Raindance Film Festival comes to a close prizes have been awarded to films across a number of categories. Jury members included Sarah Radclyffe – producer and co-founder of Working Title; Oli Harbottle of Dogwoof Distribution; cinematographer Philip Bloom and William C. Martell, writer of 20 produced feature films. The winners were:
Love Tomorrow
3 October 2012 by Leave a Comment
When flicking through the schedule for this year’s Raindance Festival there was one film that really did jump out at me as being possibly the most innovative on the programme and that was Love Tomorrow, a romance set in London which saw Ballet Boyz Michael Nunn and William Trevitt act as Associate Producers and choreographers…
Body Complete
3 October 2012 by Leave a Comment
In the past few years I’ve studied the Holocaust and later genocides and I’ve always wondered how those countries which have seen genocide take place on their soil have been able to move on. Not just legally by ensuring that perpetrators are brought to justice….
Banaz: A Love Story
1 October 2012 by Leave a Comment
Have you heard of a girl called Banaz Mahmod? I hadn’t until I saw the documentary Banaz: A Love Story screening at this year’s Raindance Film Festival. Now I want to tell everyone I meet about Banaz…
Top Ten:Raindance Festival Facts
27 September 2012 by Leave a Comment
The 20th Raindance Film Festival is now well underway and films this weekend to look out for include Banaz: A Love Story, Trashed and Zero Killed. To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of this brilliant festival, here are the top ten things you may not know about Raindance…
Bad Hair Friday
27 September 2012 by Leave a Comment
A couple of years ago my husband and I embarked upon a crazy journey round Europe with a couple of friends. Our aim was to visit all 50 countries of Europe in one year. We didn’t quite make it (although I do still want to finish the tour) and we did manage to visit quite a good number of countries…
City Slacker
25 September 2012 by Leave a Comment
It’s probably not very professional of me to admit this, but I do judge books by their cover and films by their names and posters. If a film has a poster which is all jaunty and has someone (usually Matthew McConaughey or Gerard Butler) leaning onto something I usually feel slightly nauseous and avoid like the plague..
20th Raindance Film Festival Launches
4 September 2012 by Leave a Comment
The 20th Raindance Film Festival was launched this morning with details of 104 feature films being announced including a fascinating Mexican thread, the best of independent British film making and a number of thought-provoking documentaries on the schedule…
The Elusive Perfect Cinema Experience….
11 November 2011 by 1 Comment
One of the best things about attending the Raindance Film Festival was that the whole cinema going experience was a pleasure. The Apollo Piccadilly is a lovely cinema, the seats were comfortable, the staff were pleasant and helpful …