Independent film is exploding!
For 24 years Raindance has been bringing the brightest and best independent film to the core of London’s West End.
If you are serious about filmmaking or serious about independent film you won’t be missing this year’s festival celebrating the best in independent film from around the world.
7 Reasons To Attend Raindance Film Festival
1. London’s first Virtual Reality Arcade
With most indie filmmakers moving to creating content for the internet, learn how this new technology platform enables independent filmmakers to make movies and make money.
A series of lectures and debates as well as screenings of a select handful of world premiere experiences makes this a ‘must-attend’ for anyone interested in this new film and distribution frontier.
Saturday/Sunday 1/2 October noon til 7pm at the prestigious Hospital Club
Get your Virtual Arcade Tickets here
2. Want to make a movie?
Take a first timer suffering from a plethora of networking nerves, add in one of Europe’s busiest networking locations, sprinkle on a few quid of cash bar drinks and PRESTO – the opportunity to meet new collaborators of a lifetime.
You can buy individual tickets now but’s a lot cheaper to buy a Raindance Festival Pass. (Join Raindance Here and save 20% on Festival Passes)
3. Amazing Japanese Films
We have a collection of twenty of the top bold, innovative and fresh Japanese films available to screen in western Europe – and it’s probably the most interesting and diverse group of films from Japan screening in Europe this year.
Get the low down on Japanese Cinema at Raindance here
4. Live!Ammunition!
This is it! Your chance to pitch your idea for a movie directly to the people that matter: the people that decide which films get made and which get chosen to screen in cinemas and on TV.
Put a fiver in the hat and you get up to 2 minutes to convince the panel that yours is the next big thing. If you are boring they can and will gong you off. But they have to give you two good reasons why.
A tense and emotionally charged event that has launched many movies in it’s history, including Meet The Parents.
Thursday 29th September 6:00pm Get your tickets here [Free for Raindance members]
5. Shorts Programmes
Raindance takes short films very seriously. There are over 7 shorts programmes comprised of the very best we could find. For every short we are showing we passed over 39 others.
One of our shorts will automatically qualify for the Oscar shortlist.
We also have a stellar collection of Webseries pilots shown for the first time anywhere.
Read all about the Webseries programme here.
Read all about the shorts programme here.
6. Mexican Film Focus
Some of the world’s hottest film directors come from Mexico. We have six hot new Mexican movies never seen before in Europe. Can you afford to miss these? Get the details of Mexican films here.
7. Get Partied Out!
We’ve never had more parties organised than this year. Our Opening Night Gala features the hottest indie film out there followed by a parrty of all patries festuring OMG It’s The Church!
Sin. Be Redeemed and Sin again!
Celebrate independent film on Wednesday September 21st here
There’s 2 ways to attend:
1) with a Raindance Festival Pass
2) buy a Benefactors Package here [get behind the black curtain]
Cheapest way to Raindance
Do the maths: Tickets cost £12.00
Over 200 programmes and events
Raindance Piccadilly Pass costs £125.00
[members of Raindance just £100.00]
Attend all the screenings and events (except Opening and Closing night) for less than £1.00 per screening or event.
Get the lowdown and Book Online Here (Raindance members save £25.00)
Single tickets can be purchased from the box office now
– book online here
– call the festival ticket hotline on 0207 930 3412
– at the Cinema Box Office at VUE Piccadilly, 19 Lower regent Street, nearest tube is Piccadilly Circus.
Raindance promotes and supports independent filmmaking and filmmakers.
From new and emerging to industry pros, Raindance connects, trains, supports, and promotes visual storytellers through every step of their career.
The Raindance Film Festival runs each Summer in London’s Leicester Square.
Raindance has been delivering film training since 1992. A wide range of Open Classes to a 2 year HND Level 5 BTEC in Moving Images to a Postgraduate Film Degree are delivered to students on five continents, both in person and online.
