Brace yourself for the most powerful cinema experience ever Apollo Cinema Piccadilly Circus Now with in all screens and Happy to host Raindance 2010 The perfect location at which to host your Corporate Events, Product Launches, Press Shows, Conferences, Private Parties, Preview Screenings, Film Premieres and Presentations. For event information and booking contact [email protected] 0871 220 6000 or www.apollocinemas.com For fi lm info or to book tickets for Raindance or any other fi lm Apollo_RaindanceAd_3.indd 1 09/08/2010 15:18 OUR THANKS TO PRINCIPAL SPONSOR Our jurors: Charles Saatchi, Mark Herbert, Ernie Marsh, Dave McKean, Alison Owen, Derek Malcolm, Julian Barratt, Lemmy and Joe Bateman Our sponsors: Amy Gustin, Ian Powell & all at the Apollo, Sumi Ghose and Asia House, Virginie Guichard & all at Electric Sheep, Neil McCartney, Marcia Degia SUPPORTING PARTNERS & all at the IFT, Helen Cowley, Jo Underhill, Paul Greenwood & all at Lovefilm, Brad Day & NDP, Ian McNaught & Pearl & Dean, Maurice Hugget, Tom Walczak at The Phoenix, Oli Harbottle, Terry Stevens & all at Dogwoof, Zara Ballantyne-Grove, Keith Greenhalgh and all at Raindance.tv, James Mullighan & Helen Jack at Shooting People, everyone at Revolver, Wing Wang and Angela Liu at UK China Association, Candi Perez, Olvido Salazar Alonso and all at the Instituto de Cervantes, Danny Miller, Andy Woodward and all at Little White Lies, Tom Hunter, Charmaine Freeman and all at London Calling, Michael Sheppard and all at Grange Hotels, All at The May Fair Hotel, Rita Rowe, Connie Farr & Pete Lawton at Thinksync Cat Crawford and Diesel, Ruth Elliott and all at Vitamin Water, Rinaldo Quacquarini and all at Moviescope. 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RIO. 3-11-08 18TH RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 3 VENUES & MAP APOLLO CINEMA PHOENIX ARTIST CLUB 19 Lower Regent Steet 104–110 Charing Cross Road London SW1Y 4LR London WC2H 0JN Ticket Prices Full price £12 / Concs £8 Box Office 0871 220 6000 Screenings take place at the Apollo, unless otherwise specified The Phoenix Artist Club is a private members bar underneath the Phoenix Theatre on Charing Cross Road. Festival-goers will have access to this marvelous late-night drinking establishment for the duration of the festival simply by quoting ‘Raindance’ on the door 18TH RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 5 APOLLO CINEMA A WEDS 29 SEPT 19:00 Jackboots on Whitehall APOLLO CINEMA B THURS 30 SEPT 17:30 The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical 16:00 Plymouth College of Arts Shorts 19:15 All I Ever Wanted 18:30 On Holiday 21:45 Geidai Shorts 20:30 Ollie Keppler’s Expanding Purple World FRI 1 OCT 15:15 On Holiday 14:30 All I Ever Wanted 17:15 Shorts: Nova Express 16:45 Superstonic Sound: The Rebel Dread 19:30 Legacy 18:15 This Way of Life 21:45 L.A. Zombie 20:15 Swansea Love Story 22:00 Cannibal SAT 2 OCT 13:15 Lummox 12:00 Legacy 14:30 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 14:00 Shorts: Risky Liaisons 16:45 Robert Mitchum Is Dead 16:00 Days of Harvest 18:45 Huge 17:45 Pure Asia 21:00 Symbol 20:00 Treasure of the Black Jaguar 22:15 Too Much Pussy: Feminist Sluts in the Queer… SUN 3 OCT 13:30 Shorts: Relative States 14:00 Look at What the Light Did Now 15:30 American Grindhouse 15:45 Rouge Ciel 18:00 Bo 17:45 There Once Was an Island 20:00 Vacation! 20:15 Lost Girl MON 4 OCT 18:30 Live!Ammunition! 16:00 G-Star screening 20:30 The Woman with a Broken Nose 18:30 Armless 20:30 Lovers of Hate TUES 5 OCT 13:45 Lovers of Hate 14:45 The Woman with a Broken Nose 15:45 When the World Breaks 17:00 99 Minute Film Funding School 18:00 Mackendrick Interview + Into the West 19:30 Robin Hood Tax Screening 21:00 The Lake Effect 21:30 Freight WEDS 6 OCT 13:45 The Lake Effect 15:45 The Story of My Space 17:15 Lost and Found 18:00 The Cutting Tradition: Insights into Female… 19:00 Five Daughters 19:15 Sounds Like a Revolution 21:30 We Are the Mods 21:15 Helena from the Wedding THURS 7 OCT 16:30 Shorts: Absent Sense 17:45 Lunar Child 18:45 Slackistan 20:00 Macho 20:45 The Vice Guide to Liberia 21:45 Vampires 22:30 Iron Doors FRI 8 OCT 15:45 Iron Doors 15:30 Vampires 19:30 Rebels without a Clue 19:15 USB 21:30 Autumn Adagio SAT 9 OCT 11:00 Rebels without a Clue 11:45 The Toll 12:45 Yellow Kid 14:00 99 Minute Animation School 15:00 Lights Out 17:00 Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry: The Life and Times… 16:45 Stolen 18:45 Incredibly Small 18:30 Do Elephants Pray? 20:45 Yuriko’s Aroma 20:45 Donoma 22:15 Dirty Diaries SUN 10 OCT 12:15 Camp Victory, Afghanistan 10:00 99 Minute Editing School 13:15 Do Elephants Pray? 12:00 99 Minute VFX School 17:00 Raindance Awards 13:45 Hi! Otsuka Drugstore 19:00 Son of Babylon 6 18TH RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL APOLLO CINEMA C 16:00 Night Runner 18:15 Question in Details SCREENING SCHEDULE 14:30 Ollie Kepler’s Expanding Purple World 16:30 Alive 18:30 Boys on the Run 10:00 99 Minute Sound School 12:00 99 Minute Film Scoring School 14:00 99 Minute Directing School 16:00 Kodak New Talent Screening 18:15 Shorts: Best UK 10:00 99 Min DSLR Schl 12:00 99 Min Indie Survival School 14:30 Kino Caravan 16:30 I Believe in Angels 18:30 32nd December 14:45 Symbol 16:45 Shorts: Thriller Zone 18:45 Straight 8 screening 15:15 Armless 17:00 Shorts: Abstract Notions 18:45 Flooding with Love for the Kid 16:45 Shorts: Raging Liberties 18:45 My Flesh My Blood 17:00 Marieke, Marieke 19:15 9:06 22:45 Bedways CINÉ LUMIERE 14:45 Shorts: Changing Lanes 18:30 Lights Out 16:45 Shorts: Learning Curves 22:45 A Serbian Film MAY FAIR HOTEL 10:00 99 Minute Casting School 19:00 Treasure of the Black Jaguar 12:00 99 Minute Special FX School 14:15 Shorts: Gone Astray 16:30 Shorts: Best International 19:00 Trash 10:30 Incredibly Small CINÉ LUMIÈRE 11:30 Shorts: Documentary Tones 17 Queensberry Place 13:30 Shorts: Animation City London SW7 2D2 15:45 My Neighbour Totoro 18TH RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 7 READ film reviews, in-depth articles and festival reports! WATCH bizarre and beautiful trailers and short films! LISTEN to podcasts of interviews with the most exciting filmmakers! SPIN the Film Roulette and win DVDs and cinema tickets! CHECK OUT our monthly film club at the Prince Charles Cinema! Look out for The End, an Electric Sheep anthology of specially commissioned essays on transgressive film from David Lynch to Electric Sheep is the online magazine for Nollywood, including contributions by the lovers of offbeat, left-field and cult cinema. Brothers Quay, Peter Whitehead, Jason It celebrates the celluloid dreams of the Wood and Jack Sargeant, published by most outlandish, provocative and visionary Strange Attractor Press in November 2010. directors, the marginal and the transgressive, A must-read for all film lovers and those who the poetic and the subversive. like to wander off the beaten cultural track. www.electricsheepmagazine.com FESTIVAL JURY PRIZES To recognise the outstanding achievements of the filmmakers showcased at the 18th Raindance Film Festival in 2010, a number of jury prizes will be awarded. The winners will be announced at the Apollo Cinema on Sunday 10 October at 5pm. The nominees are: BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE BEST DOCUMENTARY Donoma [France] Camp Victory, Afghanistan [USA] Son of Babylon [Iraq] Stolen [Australia] Symbol [Japan] Rouge Ciel [France] The Woman with a Broken Nose [Serbia] Sounds Like a Revolution [Canada] There Once Was an Island [USA/New Zealand] BEST UK FEATURE This Way of Life [New Zealand] Five Daughters Huge BEST UK SHORT Jackboots on Whitehall Dust Legacy The Golden Boy Rebels without a Clue Natural Selection Stanley Pickle BEST DEBUT FEATURE Storage Armless [USA] Watching Cannibal [Belgium] Donoma [France] BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT Huge [UK] Still [Cyprus] Robert Mitchum Is Dead [France] Happiness Is Hate Therapy [Canada] The Story of My Space [Russia] I Am a Fat Cat [USA] LIN [UK] BEST MICRO BUDGET FEATURE Fly [Germany/Poland] Armless [USA] Moustachette [USA] Flooding with Love for the Kid [USA] Incredibly Small [USA] FILM OF THE FESTIVAL [SHORT] Lovers of Hate [USA] The winner is offered the chance to make next Macho [Mexico] year’s trailer with the support of the IFT. 18TH RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 9 Untitled-1 1 20/8/10 15:34:14 THE FESTIVAL JURY Julian Barratt is an English comedian, musician, music producer and actor.