We sat down with Rene Pannevis, director of Raindance Film Festival 2016 Best UK Short nominee and winner of Best British Short at the British Independent Film Awards, Jacked. Jacked was developed and written in less than a month after Pannevis came across Film London’s short film scheme London Calling, which provides funding, training and […]
If you don’t recognise Francesca Fowler by name, you’ll probably recognise her by face, having made fairly regular appearances on British television screens for the past decade, as well as starring alongside the likes of Gillian Anderson and Danny Dyer in various films. But having been passionate about writing since childhood, it was inevitable that […]
After emails back-and-forth for a couple of weeks, we finally manage to catch some time with activist and acclaimed documentary filmmaker Iara Lee in New York following a packed-out screening of her two latest documentaries, as she prepares to head out to Brazil, followed by India and East Timor on the rest of the films’ […]
Sonia Bonspille Boileau made her first feature length film Le Dep in just 10 days. She was in London to see it screened at Raindance 2015 and gave me some of her time for a chat about filmmaking. The main challenge for this film [Le Dep] was that I wanted the main character to be […]
Raindance’s 30th Birthday: Elliot Grove’s FAQ’s | Why I Raindance | Key Raindance Dates | Raindance eco-System Raindance was formed by Elliot Grove in 1992 at a moment of deep crises in the British film industry. In 1992 only six features were made. But Grove and a small band of filmmaker/entrepreneurs that included Edgar Wright […]
With awards season well underway it’s easy to forget about what a great year it’s been for low-budget indie film as the barrage of studio releases hit the multiplexes. So we sat down with one of 2015’s most talented indie film break-outs, a real winner for us – Oliver Nias, director of The Return, nominated for Best […]
Elisa Paloschi took her groundbreaking documentary Driving with Selvi to Raindance this year and in between fundraising spoke to us about why she had to make this film. I felt I could do anything I wanted; I came from the Canadian mentality where if you have a dream you work hard and you can probably achieve […]
Toaday Raindance founder and Nikon Film Festival juror Elliot Grove took a half hour out to answer took a half hour out of his frantic post Moet British Independent Awards day to answer questions on Twitter. We thought you’s like to see what he was able to do in 30 frantic minutes. We here in […]
We love independent film. Hell, we make independent film here. If there’s one thing we love, it’s giving a platform to up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world so that their films will get a broader audience. One of these films was the Bollywood production Peter Gaya Kaam Se, which premiered under the title The Goa Run […]
Showing her first feature film at Raindance 2015 Laura Plancarte took some time out from working on her next project to share some words of wisdom with us. I’m from Mexico and my career comes originally from the visual arts. I’m a performance artist, an installation artist and a video artist. My work has always been […]
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