Raindance Film Festival 2010 - Ones to Watch!

Below I've selected some films and events which I recommend seeing at this years Raindance Film Festival 29th Sept - 10 Oct 2010.
All information is taken from the Raindance Website

Best of British Strand

Five Daughters - British - Philippa Lowthorpe
Five women, all working as street prostitutes to fund drug habits, were murdered in the British town of Ipswich in 2006. This is their story.
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Wed 6 Oct - 7pm

Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World - British - Viv Fongenie
A darkly comic tale of a young man’s battle with madness.
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Thurs 30 Sept - 8.30pm

Documentary Films

American Grindhouse - USA - Elijah Drenner
American Grindhouse explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment.
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Screening date and time to be announced

Stolen - Australian - Violeta Ayala, Dan Fallshaw
A controversial documentary following the family reunion of a refugee which spirals out of control.
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Sat 9 Oct - 4.45pm

There Once Was An Island - New Zealand/Papa New Guinea - Briar March
There Once Was an Island follows the small community that inhabits the tiny Polynesian island of Takuu, which is slowly succumbing to rising sea levels.
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Sun 3 Oct - 5.45pm

This Way Of Life - New Zealand - Thomas Burstyn
A film about a family. Mum, dad, six kids and 50 wild horses; a beach, a mountain and a burnt down house.
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Fri 1 Oct - 6.15pm

Japanese Films

Lost & Found - Japanese - Nobuyuki Miyake
This is a portrait of various people that come across a Lost and Found office. Something that is once lost but is found again.
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Wed 6 Oct - 5.15pm

Symbol - Japanese - Hitoshi Matsumoto
A man wakes up and mysteriously finds himself trapped in an empty, white rectangular room, wearing clownish bright yellow polka dot pyjamas.
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Sat 2 Oct - 9.00pm

North American Indies

The Lake Effect - USA - Tara Miele
Rob Lawson’s perpetual quest for success is interrupted when his estranged daughter shows up pregnant, challenging him to be a father before he becomes a grandfather.
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Tues 5 Oct - 10.00pm

On Holiday - USA - Brian McGuire
A young man moves to Los Angeles looking for adventure. He finds drugs, sex, and electronic blues music. What next?
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Thur 30th Sept - 6.30pm

Treasure of The Black Jaguar - USA - Mike Bruce
Two boys discover easy money is just a mirage when this desert-based caper takes a murderous turn.
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Sat 2 October - 8.00pm
Sat 9 Oct - 7.00pm - The Mayfair

We Are The Mods - USA - E. E. Cassidy
An original and authentic coming of age drama about teen identity and emerging sexuality.
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Wed 6 Oct - 9.30 pm. Q&A after the screening

Raindance Symphony Orchestra

A Serbian Film - Serbian - Srdjan Spasojevic
A shocking horror about sex, violence, and the depth of human corruption.
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Fri 8 Oct - 10.45pm

Sounds like a Revolution - Canadian - Summer Love
A documentary about the uprising of politically motivated protest music throughout the USA.
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Wed 6 Oct - 7.15pm

Advance Press Screenings

Son of Babylon - British/Iraqi - Mohamed Al-Daradji
Two weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Ahmed, a 12-year-old boy begrudgingly follows in the shadow of his grandmother deep into Iraq in seach of his missing father.
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Screening date and time to be announced

99 Minute Film Classes
These short classes are taught by industry practitioners at a very low price, well worth going if you're after inside knowledge in the film-making world.

Sound School - 10am Sat 2nd October
Film Scoring School - Noon Sat 2nd October
Directing School - 2pm Sat 2nd October
DSLR School - 10am Sunday 3rd October
Survival for Independent Filmmakers School - Noon Sunday 3rd October
Funding School - 5pm Tuesday 5th October
Casting School - 10am Sat 9th October
Special FX School - Noon Sat 9th October
Muvizu Animation School - 1.45pm Sat 9th October
Editing School - 10am Sunday 10th October
Visual FX School - Noon Sunday 10th October

Raindance Tour 2010
Three selected films will tour at four Apollo Cinemas around the country in September.

My Suicide - USA - David Lee Miller
A teen coming-of-age romantic dramedy about a media-obsessed geek and the most beautiful and twisted girl in school.
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Redditch/Burnley/Torbay/Leamington Spa on 6th September 18.30

It Came From Kuchar - USA - Jennifer M. Kroot
It Came From Kuchar is a hilarious and touching story of artistic obsession, compulsion and inspiration.
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Burnley/Redditch/Torbay on Mon 13th September at 18.30

25 Carats - Spanish - Patxi Amézcua
A tense thriller set in Barcelona’s criminal underworld.
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Redditch/Burnley/Torbay/Leamington Spa on Mon 20th September at 18.30

Alexander Mackendrick Lecture - Tues 5th October - 6pm
Mike Newell comes to Raindance for this year’s Alexander Mackendrick Memorial Interview. Fred Hogge looks back at his work.
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