Raindance Film Festival

Raindance Film School and Festival
Location(s)	London, New York, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Berlin, Brussels and Budapest
Website	http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/raindance-independent-film-festival

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Raindance is an independent film festival and film school that operates from various cities including: London, New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Budapest, Berlin and Brussels ^[1]. The festival was established in 1992 by Elliot Grove to extend the normal film school activities of Raindance. The Raindance Film School alumni list includes the notable names of: Sacha Baron Cohen, David Yates, Edgar Wright, Matthew Vaughn, Alison Owen, Guy Ritchie, Ben Miller, Christopher Nolan, Kirk Jones, Mark Mahon, Emily Lloyd, Vadim Jean, Nick Hornby, Roland Gift, Julian Fellowes, Paul Brooks, Clive Bradley and Jeremy Bolt.

Awards at the festival include Best International Feature and Short, Best UK Feature and Short, Best Documentary Feature, and Best Debut. In its time the festival has premiered The Blair Witch Project, Capturing the Friedmans, Memento, Oldboy, Firecracker, Karosta: Life After the USSR, Girlfriend in a Kimono, Ex_Drummer and War Games: At the End of the Day.

Elliot Grove is also the founder of the British Independent Film Awards.

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