The Raindance Film Festival is to present its inaugural Auteur Award to the veteran British director Ken Loach. He’ll be presented with the honour at an event at the festival on 29th September, at which the organisers say he’ll discuss “his career, films, the ever-changing film industry and what he may have in store for […]
A film about young gay activists raising money for striking Welsh miners was the big winner at the British Independent Film Awards. At a ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London, Pride – which tells the unlikely story of the real-life campaign group “Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners” – was named the Best British Independent […]
A Philippine-set thriller, in the little-known language of Tagalog, has won the most awards – including the top awards – at this year’s British Independent Film Awards. The BIFA for Best British Independent Film went to Metro Manila and the Best Director prize went the man behind it, Sean Ellis. The film was also honoured […]
A prison drama that won the Best Newcomer honour for its first-time writer at the London Film Festival last month has scooped the most nominations at the British Independent Film Awards – the opening ceremony of a long film awards season that will end with the Oscars in February. Starred Up will be up for […]
A film about British soldiers serving in Afghanistan, The Patrol, has won the Film of the Festival prize at Raindance. Written and directed by former military-man Tom Petch, the film was chosen by a jury that included the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The Welsh sci-fi thriller The Machine – the closing film of the 21st […]
Another year, another film at Raindance. That’s the way for writer, producer, actor – and soon to be director – Jonnie Hurn. Producer and one of the stars of Drew Cullingham’s latest drama, Black Smoke Rising, Hurn is back at Raindance for the third year in succession. Two years ago, he wrote, produced and starred in […]
In 1996, British writer Christian Piers Betley wrote a vampire film called Rampage. Sixteen years later, having evolved into Dark Hearts, without a vampire in sight, it’s had its world premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London, where it was nominated for the Best International Feature award.
The 20th Raindance Film Festival has come to an end with ticket sales up a third on last year’s event, which itself had record attendance figures. The organisers of Britain’s biggest independent film festival, which precedes its bigger, longer-standing neighbour, the London Film Festival by less than a week, whittled down 4000 entries to screen […]
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tyrannosaur and Steve McQueen’s upcoming Shame have each picked up seven nominations at this year’s British Independent Film Awards.
We Need to Talk About Kevin and Kill List each have six nominations, while Richard Ayoade’s Submarine is up for five awards.There’s a particularly high profile