Raindance Film Festival
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The Raindance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in the United Kingdom. The festival was established in 1992 to celebrate and support independent filmmaking and has gone on to feature such successes as Pulp Fiction, The Blair Witch Project, Capturing the Friedmans, Memento, Oldboy, Steve Balderson's Firecracker, Girlfriend in a Kimono, & End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones.
The festival runs annually from the end of September to the first week of October in central London, England. This year marks the 14th Raindance Film Festival and will take place from September 27th to October 8th 2006. The jury for this year's film festival include such figures as Lou Reed, Dame Judi Dench, Marky Ramone, Dutch photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn, British actress Parminder Nagra, American filmmaker Jonathan Caouette, and American cinematographer Matthew Libatique.
Patrons of Raindance include Ewan McGregor, Terry Gilliam, Mike Figgis, Nick Broomfield, and Ken Loach. The festival attracts key industry figures including notable appearances by Alan Rickman, Mike Figgis, Ken Loach, Don Letts, Billy Childish, Trudie Styler, Vanessa Redgrave, Noel Gallagher, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Jonny Lee Miller. Raindance is also the founder of the British Independent Film Awards.
