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Clare McCollum, Tim Hamlyn, Elvish Veeramootoo, Rachael
Courtney and everyone at Cineworld, Nick Leese, Junior Foster,
Alex Rowley and everyone at Organic, Rob Andrews, Jon Salmon,
Jody Haskayne, Debbie Roff, Chez Marcher, Stuart Ensor, and Ross
O’Sullivan at Tiscali, Kattarina McGrath at Delta Air Lines, Mark
Zaleski, Digby Lewis, Joanna Burton and everyone at Dailymotion,
Charlotte Ashburner and Shane Wynhoven at Brown-Forman, Elaine
Cole, Jonny Lockwood and Lucy Werner at Eulogy, Sian Evans and
everyone at Brando, Catharina Rijstenbil at Sony Ericsson, Jaia
Lloyd and everyone at Ascent Media, Agata Kacperczyk, Si and Phil
Yates at The Rex Cinema and Bar, Eyndia Gopal, Joe Utichi and
everyone at Rotten Tomatoes, Angi Kuzma, Matthias Postal, Carl
Schoenfeld at SAE Institute, Simon Winter at HMV, Nick Franks and
Juliette Avery at Gibson, Samuel Clark and Anne Guidera at Kodak,
Irina Vorn and Tony Matharu at Grange Hotels, Luigi Mammolini,
Matteo Fazzi and Vita Moltedo at the Italian Cultural Institute, Candi
Perez and Olvido Salazar Alonso at Instituto Cervantes, Fionnuala
Waters at the Sasakawa Foundation, Junko Takekawa at the Japan
Foundation, James Mullighan and Tamsin Wright at Shooting
People, Kate Gardiner and everyone at Fox, Mariayah Kaderbhai at
BAFTA, Brad Day and everyone at New Day Pictures, Cat Crawford
and all at Glacéau Vitaminwater, Claire Geddie at Stellar Network,
David Pope and Becky Bazzard at the NPA, Heydon Prowse at
Don’t Panic, Virginie Guichard at Electric Sheep Magazine, Yoram
Allon at Wallflower Press, Nina Pragasam, Tommaso Campione,
Alison Smith and Stuart Kemp at The Hollywood Reporter, Simone
Pyne and Maria Nicholson at The Hospital Club, Tony Dickie and
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everyone at Crucible Media, Rik Hall and David Howard, Angela
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LIKE film? Then you’ll love the Instituto Cervantes,
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Showcasing the best recent debuts by Spanish
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Film is just part of our
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Tickets £10.00 / £6.50 [before 5pm Mon–Fri] / £6.00 [concs]
REX CINEMA + BAR
21 Rupert Street, London, W1
Box Office Films and events at The Rex are available to purchase
from www.raindance.co.uk or from the Raindance Booth at Cineworld
Concessions available with proof of entitlement to students,
disabled people and senior citizens. Please note that this programme
and prices are correct at the time of going to print. Unforeseen
circumstances may entail alterations. Details posted at box offices
and www.raindance.co.uk
SPICE OF LIFE
Music events at the Spice of Life are free to Festival passholders or
can be paid for on the door
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19:00 Choke
WEDS 1 OCT
THURS 2 OCT
17:00 It’s Only Rock & Roll (But I Like…)
18:30 Heavy Load
20:45 The Blue Tower
16:30 Shorts: Wild Tales
18:30 Nightwatching
21:30 Gardens of the Night
19:00 Sony Ericsson Reception [Invite only]
22:00 Hip Hop Colony
FRI 3 OCT
14:00 The Blue Tower
16:30 Shorts: Reality Checks
18:30 Bonne Année
20:45 PVC-1
14:30 Gardens of the Night [Repeat]
17:00 Obituary for Escobar
21:30 Patti Smith Dream of Life
18:00 Crazy
20:00 Filmmaker’s Party
22:00 Vortex and Others
SAT 4 OCT
12:00 Lay Down Your… + Message to…
14:15 Wellness
16:30 Tagliare le Parti in Grigio
18:45 Production Office
21:00 Watch Out
12:30 Under the Snow
14:45 Shorts: Documentary 2
17:00 A Life in the Death of Joe Meek
19:15 Gunnin’ For that No. 1 Spot
21:30 Senseless
16:00 Final Cut Pro: Redflow
18:00 SAE Masterclass: Film and Sound
19:30 Left Ear
20:00 RD Live: Mark Levin
SUN 5 OCT
12:00 Shorts: Enigma Flicks
14:15 Wetlands Perserved
16:30 Shorts: Rebel Moods
18:45 Wings of Defeat
21:00 Agile, Mobile, Hostile
12:30 Art and Apathy + Karosta
14:45 The Project
17:00 The 4th Man
19:00 Goliath
21:15 No Through Road
14:00 Wings of Defeat [Repeat]
16:00 It’s Hard to Be Nice
18:30 Chris and Don
20:45 Today the Same Day Is Different
14:30 No Through Road [Repeat]
17:00 The Milky Way
19:00 Clubbed
21:15 Acolytes
TUES 7 OCT
14:00 Chris and Don [Repeat]
16:30 Mao Tse Tung
18:30 IPTV Panel
20:45 Estómago
14:30 Clubbed [Repeat]
17:00 Blackspot
19:00 Little Ashes
21:15 Tender Throbbing… + Virgin…
19:30 Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo
20:00 Blues Jam
WEDS 8 OCT
14:00 Tender… + Virgin… [Repeat]
16:30 Shorts: Liberating Concepts
18:30 The Fame Game: Confessions…
20:45 Adrift in Tokyo
14:30 Blackspot [Repeat]
17:00 Crawford
19:00 The End
21:15 Permanent Part-Timer + Fujica…
18:00 Producer’s M’class: Rebecca O’Brien
19:30 Dailymotion Reception [Invite only]
22:00 9 to 5 – Days In Porn
20:00 Jazz Night
THURS 9 OCT
14:00 Adrift in Tokyo [Repeat]
16:30 Shorts: Documentary 1
18:30 Kodak Cinematography M’class
20:45 The Rind
14:30 The End [Repeat]
17:00 L… Like Love
19:00 The Daisy Chain
21:15 Fine, Totally Fine
18:00 Delta Reception [Invite only]
21:15 All Together Now
FRI 10 OCT
14:00 The Ears
16:30 Now, I…
18:45 Dummy
21:00 Año Uña
14:30 The Rind [Repeat]
17:00 Shorts: Nova Express
19:15 Electric Apricot
21:30 Who Is KK Downey?
18:00 Indestructible
19:30 RD Live: Evi Vine, Cosmo Jarvis, Alessi
20:15 Ist Faust Schön?
SAT 11 OCT
12:00 One Day Removals
14:15 Dissecting Distribution w. S Parks
16:30 Anatomy of a Reel: Creating…
18:45 This World of Ours
21:00 Wild Blue Yonder
12:30 Shorts: Lucid Chronicles
14:45 Seven Signs + Anatomy of Failure
17:00 Special Guest: Corey Feldman
19:10 Zebra Crossings
21:45 Special Screening: The Birthday
16:00
18:00
20:00
22:00
12:00 Haber + Running With Mum
14:15 The Tour
16:30 Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast…
12:00 Shorts: Vivid Animations
14:00 Fugitive Pieces
17:30 Midnight Madness
MON 6 OCT
SUN 12 OCT
19:15 Flick
SPICE OF LIFE
19:00 RD Live: Zan Lyons
BAFTA
19:00 Live!Ammunition! & Party
SPICE OF LIFE
19:00 Open Mic Night
Final Cut Pro: Graphics and SFX
Japanther in (3-D) + After-Crass
JD Wilkes, Japanther, Penny Rimbaud
The Auteur
CINEWORLD SHAFTESBURY AVE 2
19:00 Hush
Please note that this schedule is correct at the time of going to print. Unforeseen circumstances
may entail cancellations and/or alterations. Details of changes will be posted at the box offices
and full festival listings are available from www.raindance.co.uk
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To recognise the outstanding achievements of the filmmakers showcased at the 16th Raindance Film Festival in
2008, a number of jury prizes will be awarded. The winners will be announced before the screening of the Closing
Night Film Hush at the Cineworld Trocadero on Sunday 12 October at 7pm. The nominees are:
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
Estomago [Brazil]
Fine, Totally Fine [Japan]
Goliath [USA]
The Tour [Serbia]
Watch Out [USA]
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Agile, Mobile, Hostile [USA]
Indestructible [USA]
Today, The Same Day Is Different [Spain]
Wild Blue Yonder [USA]
Wings of Defeat [Japan]
BEST UK FEATURE
The Blue Tower
Dummy
Flick
Senseless
Zebra Crossings
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT
A Juicy Turkey [France]
Cara [USA]
Small Collection [USA]
The Tournament [Italy]
Troubles Sens [France]
BEST DEBUT FEATURE
No Through Road [Australia]
Production Office [Canada]
PVC-1 [Colombia]
The Rind [Uruguay]
This World of Ours [Japan]
Who is KK Downey? [Canada]
BEST UK SHORT sponsored by Delta Air Lines
Broken
Like People Do
Ottica Zero
Player
Red Sands
AUDIENCE AWARD [FEATURE]
New this year to the festival, the Audience Award will be given to the best feature film at the 16th Raindance Film
Festival as selected by you. Make sure you grab a judging slip on your way into the screening and give us your
vote on the way out.
UK SHORT SPONSORED BY DELTA AIR LINES
Delta Air Lines supports the Best UK Short Film Award with a prize of two return tickets to anywhere in the US.
The prize was designed to give UK filmmakers the opportunity to attend screenings of their film in US festivals.
Above Estomago, Fine, Totally Fine, Goliath,
The Tour, Watch Out
THE DAILYMOTION SHORT CIRCUIT AWARD
The Short Circuit Award is a new short film competition created by Raindance.tv to search for budding new talent.
Filmmakers upload their 60 second short films to the Dailymotion website, where they will be judged by a panel
of esteemed industry professionals, led by director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, The Road to
Guantanamo). The winner will be announced on Wednesday 8 October at a gala screening of the ten shortlisted
finalists, held at the Rex Cinema in London. Visit www.dailymotion.com for more details
SAE DIGITAL SHORT FILM AWARD
Back for the third year, the winner of the SAE Digital Short Film Award is selected under the following criteria
– the film must have been entirely shot and edited using only digital means of production and must demonstrate
a unique approach to filmmaking utilising new digital technology. The nominations for this year are: Alfie Is Go
[USA], The Eye [Argentina], Fight [UK], Mime and Punishment [USA], Letter to Colleen [USA].
FILM OF THE FESTIVAL [SHORT]
For the fifth year we are excited to announce the Film of the Festival Award. The winner of last year’s award, UK
filmmaker Tom Tagholm (À Bout de Truffle), was selected for his unique and original style of filmmaking as well
as demonstrating a strong passion for his art. Last year’s award was supported by Diesel who supported Tom’s
win by funding his production of the 16th Raindance Festival trailer, which can be seen at www.raindance.co.uk
This year’s award is supported by the Independent Film Trust.
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Rob Andrews is head of entertainment at Tiscali. He is responsible for championing new UK talent through the
Tiscali short film section and is currently sourcing titles for Tiscali’s cinema section.
Craig Armstrong is a BAFTA and Ivor Novello Award winning composer and recording artist who has provided
the orchestral score for a wide range of feature films, notably in the work of Baz Lurhmann. He has also collaborated with such artists as Liz Fraser of the Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack, Madonna, and Mogwai.
Peter Capaldi was the recipient of the 1995 Oscar™ for Best Live Action Short Film for Franz Kafka’s It’s a
Wonderful Life. He is also a respected film and television actor, recently known for his performance as the political spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker in the BBC sitcom The Thick of It. Other notable credits include Stephen Frears’
Dangerous Liaisons, Channel 4’s Peep Show, and E4’s Skins.
Kim Deal is a singer, songwriter, and musician best known for providing the bass in the Pixies. Generating
such albums as Surfer Rosa and Doolittle, widely regarded as cult classics, the band also inspired a generation
of iconic musicians such as Kurt Cobain and Radiohead. Deal is also a member of The Breeders, now hugely
successful in their own right, alongside her twin sister Kelley. They are currently on tour in support of their latest
album Mountain Battles.
Oli Harbottle was the producer of the Raindance Film Festival from 2003 to 2005. He is now the film release
coordinator at Dogwoof Pictures, one of the leading art house distributors of independent film in the UK. His film
credits as producer include Girlfriend in a Kimono and Today A New Haircut – Tomorrow the World.
Digby Lewis is the creative director at Dailymotion, the world’s largest independent video entertainment site,
where he sources and develops unsigned directors though the platform’s Motionmaker programme. Before
Dailymotion, he worked in television as a producer/director at MTV and VH1 and worked for The Rolling Stones,
documenting their ‘A Bigger Bang’ World Tour.
Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction includes Anno Dracula, Life’s Lottery and The Man
From the Diogenes Club. His non-fiction includes Nightmare Movies, Horror: 100 Best Books and BFI Classics
studies of Cat People and Doctor Who. He is a contributing editor to Sight & Sound and Empire. He wrote and
directed a short film Missing Girl, available online at www.johnnyalucard.com/missinggirl.html
Rebecca O’Brien has been an independent film producer for twenty years. She has produced ten feature films
with Ken Loach, including Land and Freedom, Sweet Sixteen and My Name is Joe. In 2006 The Wind that Shakes
the Barley won the Palme d’Or in Cannes. Their latest film Looking for Eric, written by regular collaborator Paul
Laverty, has just finished shooting and will be launched in 2009.
Nicolas Roeg is a world-renowned film director whose career spans four decades. His debut Performance (codirected with Donald Cammell) introduced audiences to his experimental and influential approach to filmmaking,
which was expanded upon in his later works Walkabout, Don’t Look Now and The Man Who Fell To Earth. His
latest film, Puffball, was released in cinemas earlier this year.
Joe Utichi is the editor of Rotten Tomatoes UK, the influential reviews website that brings together critics’ views
from around the world. Before joining Rotten Tomatoes in 2006 he launched and ran his own successful film
website, FilmFocus.
Adam Yauch is a founding member of the influential hip-hop trio the Beastie Boys. Starting life as a hardcore
punk band, they are one of the longest-lived hip hop acts, who continue to enjoy commercial and critical success
in 2008, more than 20 years after the release of their debut album. He is also the director of Gunnin’ For That
No. 1 Spot, a basketball documentary screening at Raindance this year.
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