Fifteen Years Is a Long Time in the Film World, and I Never Imagined That We
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Festival Director Elliot Grove Fifteen years is a long time in the film Festival Producer world, and I never imagined that we Jesse Vile Senior Programmer would have grown and developed so Suzanne Ballantyne Programming much. I attribute this to two facts: that Damjan Bogdanovic Jamie Greco Raindance has the most talented team Elliot Grove Andreja Kmetovic of hard-working individuals I know – all James Merchant Ronni Raygun passionate about film and filmmaking; Jasper Sharp Dominic Thackray and, we have had the most wonderful Jesse Vile films submitted by exciting filmmakers Editor Yinka Graves from the four corners of the globe. Designer Dominic Thackray This year sees a cornucopia of bold, Assistant Producer fresh independent international cinema, James Merchant Events Co-ordinator the best lineup we have had in our 15 Joe Pearshouse Sponsorship year history (and we have had some Simon Farley at Sponsorship By Design vintage years). In addition we are graced Print Traffic this year with the presence of Jonathan Tessa Williams Rory O’Donnell Caouette, who is making a documentary Technical Chris Thomas of our 15th anniversary for Canon. Website New this year is Raindance Online Heenesh Patel Festival Assistants in association with Tiscali: festival films Zach Boren Jules Garnett and highlights streamed full screen Raindance Training Will Pearce and hi-res on the internet. We are also Public Relations launching a new venue: The Rex, home to Nick Leese at Organic Marketing advance screenings of award-nominated Official Photographers Isma Arif films and special events. Andreas Tovan Xavier Rashid Added to this mix are a few parties. You Volunteer Co-ordinator can sleep when it’s over. Nour Wazzi Additional Reviews Issac Alexander Elliot Grove Smita Dey www.raindance.co.uk Alan Diment John Ribbins Ramchandra Solanki Alison Wrigley Print National Screen Services Stones the Printers Poster Collage Gee Vaucher GESTALT [FORM FOLLOWS FUN] VENUES, MAP & SCHEDULE 4 JURY PRIZES 7 THE JURY 8 JEAN-LUC GODARD 14 RYUICHI HIROKI 19 JOHN SINCLAIR 24 PENNY RIMBAUD 32 RONNI RAYGUN 40 NOLLYWOOD 45 Opinions expressed in this MASAO ADACHI 46 SHORTS BEFORE FEATURES 49 SPECIAL EVENTS 51 magazine are the sole GODARD RETROSPECTIVE 55 HOMEGROWN CINEMA 57 province of the writer RAINDANCE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 61 UNITED STATES OF EUROPE 65 concerned and therefore do not necessarily reflect WAY OUT EAST 71 GLOBAL CELLULOID 75 NORTH AMERICAN INDIES 79 those of Raindance DOCUMENTARY 85 SHORTS PROGRAMMES 91 INDEX 96 OUR THANKS TO PRINCIPAL SPONSOR Rachael Courtney, Clare McCollum and everyone at Cineworld, Kim Mortimer, Alice Clary and everyone at Diesel, Rob Andrews, Jon Salmon, Jodie Haskayne, Debbie Reynolds, Ross O’Sullivan and everyone at Tiscali, Kattarina McGrath and everyone at Delta Air Lines, Sally Reid and everyone at Ascent Media, Jaia Lloyd, Erin McGookin, Emily Mortimer and everyone at Soho Images, MAJOR SPONSORS Jens Hack, Melanie Dubois, Sasha Naod and everyone at Canon, Jules Stevenson, Claire Walton and everyone at GSP, Paul Logan, Adam MacDonald, David Ramsammy and everyone at National Screen Services, Robin Charney and everyone at Adobe, Agata Kacperczyk and everyone at The Rex, Jessica Turner, Tanya Gerber and everyone at Neil Reading PR, Angi Kuzma, Matthias Postal, Carl Schoenfeld and everyone at SAE Institute, Simon Winter and everyone at HMV, Jess Holliday and everyone at Fossil, Chris Houghton, Everett True and everyone at Plan B Magazine, Adam Barriball, Tinka Bose and everyone at Cobra, Kevin Karlsen, Jeremy Johnson, Patrick Stewart and everyone at Getty Images, Nick Franks, Julian Grace and everyone at Gibson, Anne Guidera and everyone at Kodak, Luigi Mammolini, Vita Moltedo and all at the Italian Cultural Institute, Candi Perez, Olvido Salazar Alonso and everyone at Instituto Cervantes, Jeremy Barraud, Susan Meehan and everyone at the Daiwa Foundation, Fionnuala Waters and everyone at the Sasakawa Foundation, Joe Utichi and all at Rotten Tomatoes, Petra Luckman and everyone at The Independent, MAIN SPONSORS Clare Elliott and everyone at GP London, James Mullighan, Tamsin Wright, Jess Search and everyone at Shooting People, Sian Walker, David Tew and all at Stones the Printers, Mariayah Kaderbhai, Dora Gorman and everyone at BAFTA, Claire Geddie and everyone at Stellar Network, David Pope, Becky Bazzard and everyone at the New Producers’ Alliance, Danny Miller and everyone at Little White Lies, Georgina Wilson-Powell, Laura MacDonald, Charlie Phillips and everyone at FourDocs, Davide Scalenghe and everyone at Current TV, Mark Ross and everyone at the Diorama Arts Centre, Andy Whittaker, Anna Oribe Godas and all at Dogwoof Pictures, Zara Ballantyne-Grove, André Burgess and everyone at Crucible Media, Angela Flintham and everyone at Team Global, Johanna von Fischer, Tessa Collinson, Deena Manley, Issac Alexander, Rebecca O’Brien, Ken Loach, Ann Cattrall, Benitha Vlok, Masha Vasukova, Art Ryzkoff, Lindsay Henderson, Simon Hunter, Patrick Tucker, Jonathan Caouette, Candida Richardson, Shizuka Hata, Basil Khalil, John Tobin at EM Media, Zak Brilliant and everyone at Icon Film International, Annette Jordan, Elisar Cabrera and all at SUPPORTING PARTNERS High Point Media, Edinburgh Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Elia Rulli, Clive Bradley, Désirée Ballantyne-Grove, Julian Richards, Kiyomi Nakazaki, Keiko Funato and all at Unijapan, Metrodome Distribution, Martin Myers, Miracle Communications, Sam Nichols at Momentum Pictures, William Clarke and Danny Perkins at Optimum Releasing, Soda Pictures, Hamish McAlpine, Laura De Casto, Phil Cairns and all at Tartan Films, Hubi and everyone at Vertigo Films, Yume 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