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UK Film Review
- Sep 18, 2018
- 2 min
The Odds to close Raindance Film Festival 2018
Film Festivals > Press Releases > Raindance Film Festival The Raindance Film Festival in partnership with Lumix today announced that psychological horror film, The Odds, the debut feature from writer/director, Bob Giordano will be the Closing Night film. The film has received several awards on the festival circuit including Best Horror Feature Film at New York City International Film Festival, Best Actor in a Feature Film at North Hollywood Cinefest, and the Graveyard Shift A
UK Film Review
- Aug 23, 2018
- 14 min
Raindance Film Festival Announces 2018 Line-Up
Film Festivals > Press Releases The Raindance Film Festival in partnership with Lumix today announced its highly-anticipated line-up in full of over 80 feature films, 99 short films, 22 music videos and 33 VR exhibits, including 31 World Premieres, 28 International, 21 European and 81 UK Premieres. Celebrating its 26th year, Raindance Film Festival will take place in London’s West End from Wednesday 26 September until Sunday 7 October, 2018. Elliot Grove, Raindance Founder,
UK Film Review
- Aug 16, 2018
- 2 min
Raindance Film Festival 2018 Trailer and Poster
Film Festivals > Press Releases FIRST LOOK: RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES OFFICIAL TRAILER AND POSTER FOR ITS 26TH EDITION The Raindance Film Festival is quickly approaching and to celebrate, it has launched the Official Trailer & Poster for its 26th edition, which will take place in London’s West End from September 26th – October 7th, 2017. Directed by Hector Valdez, the inspiration behind this year’s trailer are the young ‘buzos’ (scavengers), who make a living by lookin
Chris Olson
- Mar 28, 2018
- 2 min
The 5th Annual Independent Filmmaker’s Ball by Raindance Film Festival
Raindance Film Festival announces the 5th Annual Independent Filmmaker’s Ball, UK’s top indie film party at the Café de Paris, 18th April The Independent Filmmaker’s Ball, the fundraising gala for the Independent Film Trust presented by Raindance Film Festival, will be back in London at the Café de Paris on the night of the 18th April. This year, Raindance rolls out the red carpet for a Tiki Night Special, inspired by 1960’s rock & roll and surf films. Filmmakers and indie fi
UK Film Review
- Sep 9, 2017
- 2 min
Raindance Film Festival 2017
Raindance Film Festival 2017 - The Highlights Film Festival Feature by Chris Olson One of the UK's most celebrated events in the movie calendar, the Raindance Film Festival 2017 promises to live up to its reputation of being a wonderful combination of big hitting movies and indie cinema gems. Last year's event was an awesome spread of filmmaking prowess, and having attended many of the screenings and short film showcases myself, I was eager to take a peak at what was in store
UK Film Review
- Jul 16, 2017
- 2 min
The Best Filmmaking Courses in the UK
Film Feature by Chris Olson Home to tutting in queues, washing up bowls, and a general sense of never knowing how or what to tip, the UK is a wonderful place. Amongst our eccentricities is a bountiful movie industry, with phenomenally creative artists both in front and behind the camera. With so many amazing films emerging in recent years being made here in Britain, as well as a political need to create more economic growth, there has been a push to get more people involved i
UK Film Review
- Feb 19, 2017
- 2 min
The best UK Film Festivals in 2017
Film Feature by Chris Olson As the award season builds to its inevitable crescendo with the Academy Awards next week, filmmakers and film goers will be saturated with phrases like “award-winning” and “notable mention”, and will be looking for something fresh. Here in the UK, we play host to some of the best film festivals in the world, and here is a little snippet of some of the best. Raindance Film Festival 2017 UK Film Review were proud to attend some of last year’s events
UK Film Review
- Oct 29, 2016
- 2 min
Jacked short film
Directed by Rene Pannevis Starring Charley Palmer Rothwell & Thomas Turgoose Short Film Review by Chris Olson Following the seemingly jovial antics of two car thieves (Charley Palmer Rothwell and Thomas Turgoose), Jacked is a surprisingly alert if slightly disjointed short film from director Rene Pannevis, that delves into the victimhood of crime and its most pivotal players. As Russell and Waylen scour the urban streets for a vehicle to steal, their witty banter about liking
UK Film Review
- Oct 14, 2016
- 3 min
Long Forgotten Fields
★★★ Directed by Jon Stanford Starring Tom Campion, Rebecca Birch, Simon Armstrong, France's Ruffelle, Paul Sadot, & Katherine Stevens Indie Film Review by Chris Olson The effect of war on cinema is well documented. Storytellers find an unlimited resource in the nature of conflict and its fallout, so much so that war as a genre has to be divided into its own subcategories. The "post-war assimilation" movie offers compelling and harrowing stories to be told about characters who
UK Film Review
- Oct 12, 2016
- 5 min
A Plastic Ocean documentary
★★★★ Directed by Craig Leeson
Producers: Jo Ruxton and Adam Leipzig
Film Review by Andrew Moore Showing at the 24th London Raindance Film Festival, Journalist and Filmmaker Craig Leeson, free diver and environmental activist Tanja Streeter and a collection of colleagues, researchers and notable scientists reveal in A Plastic Ocean the shocking truth about the levels of pollution in our oceans and the equally alarming wider ramifications of this. What starts as an idyllic oc
UK Film Review
- Oct 11, 2016
- 2 min
Balcony short film
Directed by Toby Fell-Holden Starring Charlotte Beaumont & Genevieve Dunne Short Film Review by Chris Olson Cross-cultural urban drama Balcony has a huge amount of gritty prowess and fearless filmmaking. Seen as part of the Raindance Film Festival's UK Shorts Programme, it is was a standout film and something which leaves a startling aftertaste. Told on a London council estate, teenager Tina (Charlotte Beaumont) seems fascinated with Dana (Genevieve Dunne), an Afghani girl wh
UK Film Review
- Oct 10, 2016
- 2 min
Shortwave indie film
★★★★ Directed by Ryan Gregory Phillips Starring Juanita Ringeling, Cristobal Tapia Montt, & Kyle Davis Indie Film Review by Chris Olson Psychological thriller, Shortwave, is a particularly strong example of aesthetic filmmaking, with a lot in common with a towering movie like Ex Machina. Fans of that genre, containment horror, will thoroughly enjoy the uncensored violence and intrigue, which is balanced with a good deal of emotional depth. Isabel (Juanita Ringeling) and her h
UK Film Review
- Oct 9, 2016
- 2 min
Dunroamin short film
Directed by Oliver S. Milburn Starring Sarah Parish & Robert Emms Short Film Review by Chris Olson Dark comedy Dunroamin is an offbeat and well written piece about a young man called Steven (Robert Emms) attending a house viewing that seems to get weirder and weirder as the seller, Joanna (Sarah Parish) is subjected to increasingly baffling and intimate questions. Opening with a rather splendid use of Canon,director Oliver S. Milburn's film is a movie full of quirky contrasts
UK Film Review
- Oct 8, 2016
- 2 min
Healey's House short film
Directed by Rob Savage Starring Julie McLellan, Michelle Donnelly & Ben Tavassoli Short Film Review by Chris Olson All is not as it seems in this emotionally gripping drama from director Rob Savage, who delivers a harrowing and haunting tale of revenge set in the highlands. Julie McLellan and Ben Tavassoli play a young couple on a road trip to Scotland with a seemingly disturbing purpose. Stopping for petrol along the way, the intimacies of this relationship seem dubious to s
UK Film Review
- Oct 4, 2016
- 3 min
For Grace indie film
★★★★ Directed by Sebastian Armesto
Starring Andrew Keatley, Jacob Casselden, David Acton, Carolyn Pertwee and Sophie Roberts
Indie Film Review by Jack Bottomley “Graceful” Truth is stranger than fiction it is often said but the nature of truth is not always so easy to accept. In various documentary features and factual short films directors seek out people or subjects that – whether big or small – stand as evidence of just how beautiful, complex and indeed bewildering truth
UK Film Review
- Oct 2, 2016
- 2 min
Candy Floss short film
Directed by Jed Hart
Starring Barry Keoghan, Grace Hogg-Robinson, & Dean Christie
Short Film Review by Chris Olson What could be more romantic than young love at a fairground? Well, a lot of things really. This tragic and affecting short film from Jed Hart operates in the bleak department of teenage romance stories, where the two characters are bingeing so much on freedom that their undoing is surely only one more poor decision away.
Set in a travelling amusement fair, Sha
UK Film Review
- Oct 1, 2016
- 2 min
The Future of Work and Death documentary
★★★★ Directed by Sean Blacknell and Wayne Walsh Starring Gray Scott, Aubrey de Grey, Zoltan Istvan, Rudy Tanzi, Vivek Wadhwa, & Will Self Documentary Film Review by Chris Olson Battling a dialogue that is as exponentially terrifying as it is increasingly utopian, documentary film The Future of Work and Death is, as you might guess, a film of two halves. Not only do filmmakers Sean Blacknell and Wayne Walsh have to traverse a complicated narrative concerning the implications o
UK Film Review
- Sep 30, 2016
- 4 min
China Industry Forum Raindance 2016
A Quest of Discovery That Must Never End: Reflections on the China Industry Forum (22nd September 2016) Film Feature by Dean Pettipher “Life is finite, while knowledge is infinite.” These were words declared and recorded in writing by the Chinese philosopher of more ancient times, Zhuang Zhou. Of all the proverbs and sayings of world-renowned wisdom, the aforementioned notion, without a doubt, best encapsulated the most immediate sentiment of this year’s China Industry Forum,
UK Film Review
- Sep 28, 2016
- 5 min
Women Filmmakers Forum Raindance 2016
Forever Fearless: Reflections on The Film in My Mind: Women Filmmakers Forum Film Feature by Dean Pettipher Almost one year since the day Jennifer Lawrence wrote her heartfelt essay regarding gender inequality in Hollywood, focused more specifically on the pay gap tragedy, one wonders what might have changed as a consequence of this stern call for justice. Additionally, the following questions become increasingly less blurred in front of the camera for at least a brief oppor
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