Date: 5th September to 6th October
Venue: Vue Piccadilly, London
Not long to go until the Raindance Film Festival – a month of feature length films, shorts and documentaries from more than 50 countries. The festival will now host the UK’s first ever Web Fest – a dedicated web series festival on 28th and 29th of September.
Raindance Film Festival, which takes place in London at Vue Cinema Piccadilly from 25th September – 6th October, is Europe’s largest independent Film Festival. This year, Europe’s largest independent film festival will host over 300 films and 40 events with a line-up that ranges from rom-coms to black comedies, psychological thrillers and sci-fi, to dance and art focused films. Raindance will also exclusively screen the highly anticipated Wayland’s Song, a gritty thriller about an ex-soldier dealing with physical and mental scars on returning from Afghanistan, starring Rob James-Collier and Orla Brady and directed by Richard Jobson. Also showing it the award winning Earthbound starring Rafe Spall as a man who believes he is an alien from another planet hiding from intergalactic bounty hunters. The festival will feature some of the newest and most exciting factual and music films in its Documentary and Raindance Symphony Orchestra strands. The variety of films selected for this strand cover everything from the aftermath of the nuclear meltdown in Fukushuma to the rise and fall of 80s rock band Skum Rocks, and the tale of a six year old skateboarding prodigy and YouTube sensation. The festival will close with The Machine, a sci-fi thriller starring Toby Stephens and written and directed by Caradog W. James.
Web Fest will feature a packed schedule of panel discussions, with subjects covering audience development, lessons from YouTubers, product placement and branding, and future of web TV. There will also be world premiere screenings, including Producing Juliet, the latest from Tina Cesa Ward, whose previous series Anyone But Me captured over 35 million views.
The annual Raindance Awards Ceremony takes place on the 5th October, with films judged by influential figures from the media world including, Jason Flemyng, Julian Assange, Beth Gibbons and Sean Brosnan. One short film will be crowned ‘Film of the Festival’, winning an Academy Award ® shortlist position. Raindance will also be running its expert-hosted Events Series which will cover the entire world of filmmaking, from the old-fashioned basics to the cutting edge advances, including tips on funding movies through crowd funding.
In partnership with Vue, the Festival is launching the Raindance Popcorn Pass which entitles customers to unlimited admissions at Vue Piccadilly during the 10 days of the festival. The pass costs £100 and entitles customers £20 to spend on retail items in the foyer, except alcohol, and an additional 20% off further retail items in the foyer. The Raindance Popcorn Pass is available from 2nd September until 25th September only and can be purchased via a dedicated Raindance ticket line: 08712 240242
All other tickets to the festival will be on sale from 3rd September at www.myvue.com/raindance and 08712 240242, full details can be found at www.raindancefestival.org.
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