SHORTS PLAYING BEFORE FEATURES - Raindance Film Festival

HDFEST
MONDAY 1 OCTOBER AT 4:30PM / CINEWORLD SHAFTESBURY AVENUE SCREEN 4
We are pleased to welcome back for the fourth year HDFest, a travelling festival that showcases work entirely
shot in HD. On Monday they will present a 2-hour shorts programme followed by the bizarre animated feature We
Are the Strange at 6:30pm. All films will be projected via HD so there will be plenty of eye candy to go around.
LIVE!AMMUNITION!
MONDAY 1 OCTOBER AT 7:30PM / BAFTA, 195 PICCADILLY W1 / THE CLUB, 21 WARWICK STREET W1
Have you got a great idea for a movie? This is your chance to pitch your idea directly to a panel of top film executives.
These are the people who matter. They are the people who buy scripts, who decide what will be made and
what won’t. Live!Ammunition! is one of the Raindance’s most popular events and has a strong record of projects
being picked up on the night, such as Meet the Parents (1994), 51st State (1995), Siamese Cop (1996), and White
Bhaji (2001). To pitch, drop £5 in the hat. The winner takes home all the money. The fun will continue with a networking
party from 9pm at The Club, Warwick Street.
STELLAR NETWORK
TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER AT 6:30PM / CINEWORLD SHAFTESBURY AVENUE SCREEN 4
With online opportunities proliferating rapidly, where do film professionals turn to best showcase and promote
their product? Stellar Network is pleased to welcome a panel of IP TV and digital pioneers to the Raindance
stage, to discuss, and answer questions, on how filmmakers can maximise the potential of their work through the
internet and beyond. Join us after the discussion to network with fellow filmmakers, courtesy of Cobra Beer.
WHAT TV CAN DO FOR YOU: CURRENT TV FOR INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING
TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER AT 6:45PM / THE REX
Since its launch in 2005, Current TV, the channel set up by Al Gore, has opened plenty of new doors for filmmakers
globally. Today’s event grants an interactive and enlightening presentation on Current TV and the opportunities it
offers for independent factual film. We’ll also have a chance to hear from the filmmakers themselves, their experiences
and tips in distributing their films. Current TV commissioners will be on hand to answer any questions.
NPA PRODUCERS MASTERCLASS: TIM BEVAN
WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER AT 6:45PM / THE REX
The New Producers’ Alliance presents a producer’s masterclass with one of the great producers working in the
industry today. David Pope will hold an in-depth interview with Tim Bevan revealing his extraordinary career as a
producer in the film industry. The interview will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
HMV SPECIAL GUEST SCREENING: MICK JONES
WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER AT 9PM / THE REX
Mick Jones of The Clash has chosen one of his all time favourite films to screen at Raindance. Nic Roeg and
Donald Cammell’s ’70s rock and roll gem, Performance (see page 63) will make its way onto the big screen at
The Rex. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Mick Jones.
FOURDOCS DOCUMENTARY MASTERCLASS: PENNY WOOLCOCK
THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER AT 6:45PM / THE REX
Writer/director Penny Woolcock, whose films include the recent Exodus, Mischief, The Principle of Lust and The
Death of Klinghoffer will speak about her career as a documentary filmmaker. The talk will include clips of her
work followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
STRAIGHT8
THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER AT 7PM / CINEWORLD SHAFTESBURY AVENUE SCREEN 7
Straight8 present the films that played best at their Cannes Film Festival and Leicester Square screenings last
summer. Each film is 3 and a half minutes, shot on a single cartridge of super-8mm film with no editing or postproduction
allowed. Raw filmmaking – amazing films. Now in its 8th year, Straight8 attracts entries from all over the
world resulting in fun and off the wall filmmaking. For more info visit www.straight8.net
AN EVENING OF SUPER 8MM + LIVE PERFORMANCE
THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER AT 9PM / THE REX
A screening of Mick Duffield’s super-8mm films Tea Piece (7 mins), made over four decades, and Choosing
Death (25 mins), a humorous savaging of consumerism and the Thatcher government’s laughable plans for
nuclear emergency (originally part of Crass’ Christ – The Movie, and hailed at the time by Rose Rouse in Sounds
as a ‘brutal, abrupt, unnerving account of Western Society’s barbarism’) followed by Hugh Metcalfe’s new film
about the River Roding (50 mins), projected from the super-8mm original with live performance during the
screening from Hugh Metcalfe (guitar/violin/drum/voice) and Penny Rimbaud (hi-hat/cowbell).
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