by Raindance | 23 November, 2020 | Festivals, News, Raindance Film Festival
LONGLIST OF FILMS REVEALED FOR BIFA’S RAINDANCE DISCOVERY AWARD 2020 Britain’s biggest independent film festival, Raindance is considered a place to discover the work of passionate and pioneering new filmmakers: those whose determination to tell compelling stories...
by Raindance | 20 November, 2020 | Festivals, News, Raindance Film Festival, Virtual Reality
The 28th Raindance Film Festival didn’t let anyone stop us, and now we are here to announce this year’s Festival Immersive Award winners! This year of Immersive VR experiences was astounding! We here at Raindance were thrilled to host our digital experience with folks...
by Marian Felix | 19 November, 2020 | Festivals, Filmmaking, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution, Technical Craft
To have a film win in a film festival would be the highlight of many budding filmmakers’ careers. But the coveted position of even having films screened, let alone winning awards, used to be out of the reach of many filmmakers. And then along came technology. Not only...
by Rebecca Ashton | 12 November, 2020 | Festivals, Filmmaking
2020 marked a first for the Raindance Film Festival, with the event never previously having taken place online. Allowing interested parties to experience the festival remotely, as reported by ScreenDaily.com, it was well-received, leading to the question of whether...
by Raindance | 5 November, 2020 | Festivals, News, Raindance Film Festival
Sally Hawkins and Jude Law have been awarded Raindance Icon Awards for 2020. As well as accepting their awards, they will also both take part in special online ‘In Conversation with’ session as part of Raindance Film Festival 2020. Actors Sally Hawkins and...
by Elliott Hasler | 5 October, 2020 | Directing, Festivals, Film History, Filmmaking
In 2017, aged sixteen years old my debut feature, ‘WWII: The Long Road Home’, premiered at the Brighton and Edinburgh festivals after some three years of quite literal blood toil and sweat spent during production of the zero-budget feature (I was fourteen years old at...
