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34th Raindance Film Festival 2026 Award Winners

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Several outstanding films screening at the 34th Raindance Film Festival are award winners featuring in 11 categories, including a new category for this year, Best Horror Feature. As an Oscar®-qualifying festival, Raindance also celebrates short filmmaking with four prestigious awards, offering winners a pathway to Academy Award® consideration. The talent, craft, and creativity that’s been showcased over the last 10 days has made this year’s unforgettable line up. Raindance Award Winners 2026 Best International Feature: Silent Rebellion Regarded at Venice Film Festival, this WW2 drama follows a virtuous teen in 1943 Switzerland who questions her village’s morality when they turn … Continue reading 34th Raindance Film Festival 2026 Award Winners

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Pescador gets two Raindance Nominations

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Harry Domenico Rossi’s debut feature film Pescador,  will be making its European premiere at Raindance Film Festival on 18th June, 2026. Pescador is described as fantastic and meditative after receiving two Raindance nominations Best Director of a Debut Feature for Rossi and Best Performance in a Debut Feature for Alex Wanebo. Pescador  appears in London following its World Premiere at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI Goa). Rossi also received the Peter Brunette Award for the Best Director at RiverRun International Film Festival where the jury statement announced “every step was a creative risk that pays off in poetry.” Pescador features a … Continue reading Pescador gets two Raindance Nominations

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The Chemistry that made the iconic movies with an empire of their own

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The Last Kings of Hollywood is the untold, intimate story of how three young visionaries – Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg – revolutionised American cinema, creating the most iconic films in history while risking everything, redefining friendship, and shaping Hollywood as we know it.  In the summer of 1967, as the old Hollywood studio system was dying an intense, uncompromising young film school graduate named George Lucas walked onto the Warner Bros backlot for his first day working as an assistant to another up-and-coming, largely-unknown filmmaker, a boisterous father of two called Francis Ford Coppola. At the … Continue reading The Chemistry that made the iconic movies with an empire of their own

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Moving towards a prize? Well let’s wait and see!

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KESHAV SHREE:- FILMMAKER AND QUALIFIED LONDONDOCTOR EDUCATED IN LONDON ITSELF.Aside from doing a degree in Medicine in London, Keshav has also done a one year film course and now he is a mover and a shaker in the fringe genre of making shorts (short films) for competitions! His appealing countenance is evident as he has acted in some of his films. Film is a passion and a hobby.Read on……Of his latest two shorts Keshav told me “They’re both realistic comedies and I like making films on things that affect me as a first generation immigrant.” He has been in England since he … Continue reading Moving towards a prize? Well let’s wait and see!

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Raindance Festival 2025: The Last Grail Hunter

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Dystopian and dark, the story of this saga cemented to Lee in a dream. He talked to John Altman ( remember Eastenders fame Nick) and the film took a mere four days to film on an iPhone and a drone using the film app Black Magic. Lee is in a band called The Pocket Gods and atmospheric angry music accompanies the story of this “esoteric road trip which is a bit fucked up” adding gravitas from the band. Guerrilla-style filming and work was intrinsic. The book Holy Blood And Holy Grail which apparently inspired some of the writings in The … Continue reading Raindance Festival 2025: The Last Grail Hunter

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Chaplin’s fall from grace

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The remarkable, story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman. Film critic, Scott Ryman’s biography of Charlie Chaplin is a perceptive, insightful portrait of  Chaplin and of an America consumed by political turmoil, starts in 1952, as he was barred from re-entering America by opaque machinations bin the US state department. Once the most famous man in the world, Chaplin abroad the RMS Queen Elizabeth, bound for England now risked becoming “stateless, impoverished” in Ryman’s words “ Charlie Chaplin had … Continue reading Chaplin’s fall from grace