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Raindance Film Festival

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The Raindance Film Festival is the UK's largest independent film festival.[1][not in citation given] It was established in 1992 by Elliot Grove to extend the normal film school activities of Raindance and to celebrate and support independent filmmaking. The 2009 Festival will run from September 30 to October 11 2009 in Central London.[2]

Prestigious awards at the festival include Best International Feature and Short, Best UK Feature and Short, Best Documentary Feature, and the Tiscali Short Film Award. In its time the festival has premiered The Blair Witch Project, Capturing the Friedmans, Memento, Oldboy, Steve Balderson's Firecracker, Karosta: Life After the USSR, and Girlfriend in a Kimono.

Jury members have included Lou Reed, actress Dame Judi Dench, Iggy Pop, Dutch photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn, Mick Jones of The Clash, Andrea Arnold, Marky Ramone, and American filmmaker Jonathan Caouette. Patrons of Raindance include Ewan McGregor, Terry Gilliam, Mike Figgis, Ken Loach, and Marky Ramone. The festival attracts key industry figures including notable appearances by Alan Rickman, Mike Figgis, Ken Loach, Don Letts, Marky Ramone, Trudie Styler, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Jessica Parker, Mick Jones, Anton Corbijn and Jonny Lee Miller.

Raindance is also the founder of the British Independent Film Awards.

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2008 Raindance Film Festival
  2. ^ "2009 Festival Info". Raindance Festivals. http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/index.php?aid=4207. Retrieved on 2009-04-28. 

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