A selection of recent Raindance produced short films by filmmakers of the different Raindance hubs around the world.
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LOVESHOTS
Director: Pauliina Leskinen | UK | 2023 | 1 Minute
1 minute short exploring the ability of experiencing endless love through digital glasses.
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Cast: Amanda Wickham, Nathan Wells
Writer: Pauliina Leskinen | Producer: Pauliina Leskinen | Director of Photography: Pauliina Leskinen | Editor: Pauliina Leskinen | Music: Alexey Chistilin
Are We Doing This?
Director: Harvey Puttock | UK | 2023 | 10 Minutes
A new couple, Jeff and Mia, attend her boss’s party hoping she might get a promotion out of it. Arriving late, they’re surprised to be greeted by a bowl of keys. Their relationship will be put to the test as they explore what their boundaries are but next time maybe Mia should read the invitation.
Cast: Owen Frost, Jessica Lundholm, Claire Johnson, Liam Harkins, Joseph Emms
Writer: Harvey Puttock | Producer: Harvey Puttock, Dusan Mrden, David Deutscher, Claire Johnson | Director of Photography: Ufuk Gokkaya | Editor: Harvey Puttock | Music: Robbie Smith
Nightshift
Director: Charles Dean | UK | 2023 | 16 Minutes
Cast: Cristo Fernández, Jack McGill, Liam McGrath, Olly Roy, Fred Di Rosa
Writer: Charles Dean | Director of Photography: Ufuk Gokkaya
Awake
Director: Raresh DiMofte | Ireland | 2023 | 3 Minutes
In One’s world everything he does is upside down or sideways. Two is watching.
Cast: Raresh DiMofte
Writer: Lucian Petronel Potlog, Raresh DiMofte | Producer: Lucian Petronel Potlog, Nadia DiMofte, Raresh DiMofte, Florin Craciun | Director of Photography: Lucian Petronel Potlog | Editor: Lucian Petronel Potlog | Music: Lucian Petronel Potlog
Portrait of Consumption
Director: Gillian Fortin | Canada/USA | 2023 | 8 Minutes
A day in the life of one woman’s descent into social media madness as seen through her eyes and the eyes of her anonymous followers.
Cast: Gillian Fortin, Dadyar Vakili, Lauren Paige Sivan, Soma Chhaya, Jewell Farshad
Writer: Gillian Fortin | Producer: Ali Mashayekhi | Director of Photography: Ian Macmillan, Fabian Tehrani | Editor: Abanoub Andraous | Music: Walker Grimshaw
One in Two People
Director: Ali Mashayekhi| Canada | 2022 | 8 Minutes
Emily is surrounded by her family and friends as her isolated trauma manifests itself in a physical form.
Cast: Adam Tsekhman, Ashley Leggat, Katie Boland, Matt Murray, Jade Hassouné
Writer: Oswald Mahogany | Producer: Ali Mashayekhi | Director of Photography: Conor Fisher | Editor: James Tracey | Music: Chris Reineck
The Apology of Albert Batch
Director: Luc Chamberland | Canada | 2023 | 25 Minutes
A cabaret puppet play selfcontain in a suitcase. On the planks of that tiny dormant volcano of a life, there is an epic biography of the life of the legendary famous cartoonist, Albert Batch.
Cast: Seth
Writer: Seth, Luc Chamberland | Producer: Dwight Street Book Club, Marcy Page, Luc Chamberland | Director of Photography: John Min Tran | Editor: Thierry Bonnetier, Paul Tom | Music: Luigi Allemano
Pina
Director: Jérémy Depuydt, Giuseppe Accardo | Belgium/France | 2022 | 23 Minutes
At the end of the 19th century, in a sicilian countryside village, the young pina holds the power to regenerate the land. With each harvest, the village is prey to shameless mafia looting. Pina’s encounter with the mafia chief will plunge the hamlet into an era of starvation, endangering the destiny of the whole country.
Cast: Chiara Calandrier, Cesare Biondolillo, Maria Stellino
Writer: Giuseppe Accardo, Jérémy Depuydt | Producer: Maxime Feyers, Lucas Tothe | Director of Photography: Jérémy Depuydt, Giuseppe Accardo | Editor: Jérémy Depuydt, Giuseppe Accardo | Music: David Gana, Laurent Cabrillat
Outpatient
Director: Joe Meyerson | USA | 2022 | 7 Minutes
Two young men attend counseling in the basement of a church to satisfy the conditions of their probation. Bo is a college dropout dealing with the consequences of a DUI; Marcus is a chef whose career was derailed by an assault charge; and Nathan is the recovered addict trying to get started as a drug counselor.
The three of them don’t quite get along.
Cast: Charles Baker, Ethan Darbone, Beau Goodman, Richard C. Jones
Writer: Joe Meyerson | Producers: Jim Flores, Maddie Siedell, Alex Czuleger, The Green Room | Director of Photography: Jim Flores | Editor: Derek Drouin | Music: Skye Emanuel, David Westerhout, Jimmy Howland
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