Raindance TV
Raindance TV is home to the best Independent Feature Films and shorts. To find out more about Raindance TV go to www.raindance.tv
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Dogboy vs Monsters
Music video for Flipron's new single "Dogboy vs Monsters", directed by Alex de Campi.
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Raindrops Keep Falling On The Dead
Music video to Flipron's "Raindrops Keep Falling on the Dead".
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Guy's Guide to Zombies
A definitive guide on how to live with the living dead
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Legends of Show Business
At his 100th birthday concert in Las Vegas, George Burns, America's oldest and most beloved entertainer, reveals the secret of his longevity.
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Monday
The film is about a half-man, half-monkey character called Marvin Ape on his way to work on a Monday morning. I tried to create what I would like to call a Goofy Surreal Satire about modern life and our pre-mature removal from nature.
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Norberts Great Britain
It's a minute long just watch it and be British!
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The World's Shortest Film Festival - Part 1
The World's Shortest Film Festival - Part 1: Dramas, thrillers, comedies, love stories. 40 short films, all together - in under 15 minutes. Enjoy
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Wasp
What to do with an irritating wasp that's buzzing you when you're at the seaside
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Trish
The make up girl's film pitch.
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Isabel
David Lynch-style non-linear narrative. Three people who seemigly have no connection end up thrown together in the same house.
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Ynomitset Ym
A thriller which takes us in a backwards journey to the last moments of life.
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Cricker Crack
A young man is terrorised by curiosity and fear of the night.
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A Tailor's Secret (Krojaceva Tajna)
Savo takes a bizarre and funny train journey across Yugoslavia. On the way to his mother's funeral he winds up meeting an array of weird and wonderful characters, falling in love with a girl who's speciality is underwater stripping.
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Jez
The runner's film pitch.
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A Little Night Music
The main heroes in the comedy "A Little Night Music" are Spasoje and Cole, two likable but silly chaps, constantly getting into funny and hazardous situations. They work in a morgue and one night, out of curiosity, they decide to answer the phone ringing in the pocket of a dead man. There starts the thriller and plot with numerous twists. Their lives become more and more complicated and they get closer and closer to danger.
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Liberty In Restraint
Michael Neys subject is the subterranean world of BDSM and alternative sex filtered through the eyes of fetish photographer Noel Graydon, aka Master Venom. Bondage, dominance and submission, fetishism and algolagnic ritual are all expected bread and butter, but Graydons the insider looking out and Neys airy style lift up the whole affair, to give us instead a portrayal of civility and mild-mannered gaiety that is set against a putrid backdrop of upper circle Christian catechism. The outcome is a parable of two moral scenes: the unspoken principles contained in adult open sexual catharsis beside the dissolute morals of the guardians and stockists of ascetic convention. From outside the fence, transgressive sexuality seems to be about reining in violence and fear and to a rephrased perpetuation of abhorrent behaviour once inflicted upon the subject. Liberty in Restraint points to the disbanding of this idea, it reworks shock and trauma to the point of distilled catharsis. One has the impression of wellbeing imparted to the viewer once the ritualistic cycle has been wrapped up and the needles and gasmasks removed. Dont you wish Bush, Blair, the Pope, their respective entourages and loyal fan clubs, fucked one another S&M style, instead of fucking about with the world we live in? MF
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Preaching to the Perverted
Peter is dispatched by moral crusader Henry Harding from Parliament to infiltrate the fetish/S&M world to gather evidence for persecution. Thrust into the sex-glamour-shock of the clubs, Peter falls under the spell of New York sex goddess Tanya Cheex. Her outragous show and lifestyle threaten to send her straight to jail.
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Ira
The actor's film pitch.
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The Making of the 15th Raindance Film Festival
A documentary about the 15th Raindance Film festival
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Forum on Personal Documentary
In documentary, the personal is always political, but it also needs to be courageous, engrossing, challenging. Today, the ease and relative low cost of production with digital cameras and desktop editing has brought a flood of personal films - non-linear, sometimes an essay, sometimes a diary, sometimes a journey - but not all succeed. This new style has brought with it new challenges for both film-maker and audience. What are the strategies by which a personal film engages with the wider society and with its audience. These are the questions we're throwing at our panel of documentary-makers, including Tahir Cambis (director of 1997 doco, "Exile in Sarajevo") and Ross ("Sherman's March") McElwee. McElwee is a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University's Dept of Visual and Environmental Studies, where he teaches a course in film-making. "Bright Leaves", his subjective autobiographical meditation on the allure of cigarettes and their troubling legacy, is also about film-making - home movie, documentary and fiction film. http://www.ozdox.org
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The Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit
Documentary has a long history of interrogating the world and representing different points of view, voices that don't always get much of a hearing in those media which are institutionally or industrially controlled. Today television is the primary locus for documentary exhibition, but throughout its history, there has also been a tradition of alternative forms of documentary production and distribution both in Australia and across the world. In the sixties and seventies there was the Melbourne Filmmakers Co-op and 'Reel Women' in Melbourne, the Women's Film Group and the Sydney Filmmakers' Co-op in Sydney, the Newsreel Group in the USA, and in UK, the film workshop movement spearheaded by Cinema Action and the Berwick Street Collective. These organizations of filmmakers were dedicated to making non-fiction works in ways that didn't replicate the hierarchical industrial model, and distributing them outside the accepted channels. And their subject matter often reflected a preoccupation with issues such as war and peace, gender, class and race. But before the sixties, there was the fifties... and, while in Melbourne the 'Realist Film Unit' had made a series a independent films (1946-52), in Sydney a small band of filmmakers stood out for the productivity and sustained excellence of their work. This was the Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit. A group of three - Jock Levy, Keith Gow and Norma Disher - made 17 films between 1953-9, most of them for trade unions... The films were financed by the trade union movement, principally the Waterside Workers Federation. They spoke of important issues - working conditions, health and safety, housing. They weren't screened much in cinemas although The Hungry Miles was screened at the Sydney Film Festival in 1955 - instead they were taken by the filmmakers into the streets, homes and workplaces and were screened and discussed on the spot! The unit was indymedia before indymedia. Norma Disher, a member of this pioneering Australian filmmaking group will be the special guest of Ozdox on August 12. Norma will be in conversation with John Hughes, one of Australia's leading filmmakers, whose 1981 film about the unit, Film-Work, introduced a newer generation of filmmakers to their works. http://www.ozdox.org
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Raindance TV Promo
Welcome to Raindance TV - check out what's coming soon. www.raindance.tv
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OzDox: Interactive Doco's
DVD, Broadband and Web technologies have greatly extended the ability of the documentary director/producer to reach an audience with powerful, effective works. Recent ABC-sponsored documentaries have scratched the surface of the possibilities of the interactive documentary. How do these new technologies affect the production, writing and direction of the documentary? And what techniques will the documentary maker need to master to create an interactive documentary?
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OzDox: Video activism and the Chiapas Media Project
World-wide along with the extended use of video in both domestic and public environments, in the last decade we have seen the development of different independent and community media projects (not affiliated to media networks). These projects are run by communities (virtual or real) and respond to the beliefs and information needs of individuals not of large corporations. Independent media are becoming important instruments of democratisation, attempting to empower minorities and to challenge media institutions and their links to power structures. Amongst the different independent media projects video technology is playing an important role. Video technology allows ordinary people to register and report issues and events the big mainstream media corporations do not cover, like the uprising of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional or Zapatista Nartional Liberation Army (EZLN) on 1 January 1994. Thanks to the auspices of the Pro medios de Comunicacion Comunitaria, also known as the Chiapas Media Project, indigenous Zapatistas in Chiapas and peasants in Guerrero, Mexico, have been able to learn how to use the video camera as a key weapon in their struggles for recognition and self-determination. The Chiapas Media Project is a collective media project that provides training and tools for indigenous peoples and peasants to produce their own videos. What makes the experience of the Chiapas Media Project unique is that it works with indigenous peoples and peasants. It has given them the training and equipment to become independent video-makers, to be able to self-represent and create their own audiovisual messages about who they are what are they fighting for, and what are they accomplishing in their struggle.
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OzDox: Documentary "Making Of's"
In this April ozdox session we meet visiting American documentary filmmaker Todd Grossman. We will look at how his career developed in tandem with his love of action sports, and how that led to being involved in a major action movie, namely XXX, and now in Australia, Stealth - with the same director Rob Cohen. What challenges, technical or otherwise, occur whilst creating a "making of"? How does the relationship develop with the director and producers on such feature films? What is the future for making-of's for independant filmmakers? Being prepared at all times... what equipment do you need? These are just a few of the questions Todd will address in this session.
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Uprooted: Donia Mili Interview
An interview with Donia Mili, director of Uprooted
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Uprooted
Recorded in occupied Palestine, UPROOTED explores questions and forms of resistance witnessed and experienced in this permanent war zone. The film attempts to answer the question of what constitutes resistance, and examines the tendency prevalent in the post 9/11 world to classify all resistance as terrorism
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Stan
The spark's film pitch.
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A Brazilian Immigrant
The stories of people going through immigration at an airport in a new country
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A Day Out
Jamie, a diabetic 9-year-old, escapes his family for a seaside adventure, but as the day draws to a close, things start to go wrong.
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AdCorp Inc
Creating a brand is serious business.
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Cest Comme Ca
A condemned man reflects on his life and surroundings, as he smokes a cigarette moments before his execution.
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Darkie Day
Cornish folk in black-face singing old minstrel songs; harmless tradition or an act of racial mockery? Three filmmakers embark on a journey across England to find out exactly what Darkie Day is all about.
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Desire Management
Alienated people engage in unorthodox experiences.
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Devil Doll
Two girls find a talking doll on the beach.
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Dick Dobson P.I. and the Case of the Kidnapped Cookies
Considering retirement at age nine and a half, veteran detective Dick Dobson agrees to take on one last case when a mysterious dame stumbles through his doorway.
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Division 3
College football technically
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Bal Can Can
Santino and Trendafil should be two strangers. One cruises along as the owner of a sleazy strip joint and a small time crook in Rome, the latter lives in Macedonia in utter fear of his existence, locked in a life that seems to be synchronised with all sorts of national, international and natural disasters and yet their pasts decide otherwise. Delving fifty years back, we find that their fathers were blood brothers. Santino's father was emotionally indebted to Trendafil's. Upon his deathbed he bequeths this burden to Santino, to help out his blood brothers' son should the need ever arise. The year is 2001. Escaping from forced conscription in Macedonia, Trendafil and his wife Ruza set out towards a new life, but end up chasing after Ruza's dead mother, her corpse wrapped in an Oriental carpet, stolen from the roof of their getaway car. In spite of himself, Santino is dragged into this wild goose chase that will propel them across Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Kosovo. This enchanting and refreshingly amusing comedy is painted onto a serious canvas, that of the Balkan war. Through a set of encounters with gruesome and perfectly depicted characters, Darko Mitrevski parodies the war conflicts, exposing their futility, pettiness, cruelty and injustice
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Floyd
The sound man's film pitch.
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A Kick in the Proverbials
Five stories about How you can have your Cake and Eat it!
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Follow your Art
A short film about following your art
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Gods Wounds
An idyllic English village becomes the target of animal rights extremists intent on closing down the guinea-pig farm that has brought prosperity to this rural community. Locals Vs outsiders, Morris men vs Protestors. All is not as it seems in this exploration of what it means to hold beliefs that conflict with both friendship and identity.
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Happy Ending
Father and Son have to choose a film from a selection of Hollywoods finest. But it is Saturday afternoon
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Hobby
To be a trainspotter is to be considered dull, moribund, even anal
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Mean, Old God
A Greek God retires to a second story apartment in Los Angeles.
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Love and Sex Etc
While out cruising for yet another one-night stand, thirty-something Joe meets the attractive and friendly Julie. They go back to her place but sex is interrupted by an argument. They find themselves talking and talking.
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E=mc2
A physicist struggling to prove one of Einstein's theories still finds time to dabble in an extra-curricular relationship with one of his lab assistants. Meanwhile at home his under-sexed wife struggles under the assumption that he is hard at work with his experiments. All of which explodes when she discovers otherwise.
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E=mc2 - Trailer
A physicist struggling to prove one of Einstein's theories still finds time to dabble in an extra-curricular relationship with one of his lab assistants. Meanwhile at home his under-sexed wife struggles under the assumption that he is hard at work with his experiments. All of which explodes when she discovers otherwise.
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Jules
The actress's film pitch
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Roll #2 1978
Clearing through the attic of his family home after the sudden death of his parents, our hero found a dusty roll of undeveloped Super8 from the 70s.
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Shiner
SHINER is the story of an obsessive-compulsive hoarder who is in the tail end of his life.
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Omerta
A Man attempts to rediscover his forgotten childhood, making some unsafe friends along the way. Chase ensues.
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Pleasure Pill
A woman takes a pill with some interesting side effects
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Poached
A man savors the bliss of matrimony.
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Rahil's Secret
Rahil is a twelve-year- old Iraqi girl living in an impoverished neighbourhood in Italy. Her guardians, Jamal and Anna, often argue and the local bullies label her stinky. Despite the hardships, she clings to the hope that her destiny is to travel as her name (which means nomad) would suggest. Her only friends are a doll that she names Mohammed and her pet dog, dyed blue to match the colour of the Baghdad sky. There are unanswered questions in Rahils life namely the real identity of her guardians and the reason why Jamal receives payments from the local mafia. Then there are Rahils vivid memories of trips through the desert with armed men in Arab dress. When one of Jamals business deals ends in violence, Rahil is left to fend for herself and wander the rail tracks alone, encountering a variety of characters who help her fulfil her destiny and gradually reveal her secret. Rahils Secret follows in the tradition of classic films such as Whistle Down the Wind and The Spirit of the Beehive, where the world of children with all its petty cruelties collides with the harsher adult domain. The films story has a contemporary political resonance and effectively reflects the immigrant experience as Rahil faces pressure to conform to the beliefs of her adopted country and suppress her own racial identity. Both an intriguing mystery and an entirely believable portrait of childhood, the film features an amazing debut performance from Ons Ben Raies as Rahil.
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Shooting Nick
Intending to shoot a documentary about American life, middle-aged loser Dan (director Daniel Yost) is instantly kidnapped by a manic couple (Robert Blanche & Sarah Rosenberg) who demand that he documents their trip to the beach on video.
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Shooting Nick: Daniel Yost Interview
An interview with Daniel Yost, director of Shooting Nick
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Ira (Extended version)
The actor's (extended) film pitch.
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Sonnemann
A man pursues his dream of living a life with nature without the conventions of everyday living
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Spam-Ku
A lonely "non-winner" has a change of luck after he wins a haiku contest and is awarded a lifetime supply of SPAM®.
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Sunday Afternoon
Young woman sits on a sofa in the middle of a lake singing an old lullaby. She is waiting for her brother to say goodbye to a loved one.
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The Postman
A dark comedic tale of the bizarre events on one summer's day in the English countryside.
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The Train
If we overcome our fears, could human possibility be open-minded and limitless?
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The Wedding Day
A man gets up from his lover's bed to go to his wedding.
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Winner Takes All
A stranger walks into a bar and is given a challenge to win a pot of money. There are three tasks that he must complete, but he is distracted by a young woman and doesn't listen to the rules properly. The result is that he completes the challenge in a mixed-up and shocking way. His story is told in rhyme by a Narrator
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The White Suit
After receiving a telegram informing him that his mother has passed away, Savo embarks on a memorable train journey where he encounters a host of colourful, crazy characters looking to escape the reality of a country in turmoil.
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The Making of a Film Idol
An Entrepreneur and a self styled Producer set up a Nationwide talent search of members of the public to star in a in a British Gangster Film. What follows is Car Crash entertainment.
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Tomorrow Morning
After twelve years spent abroad, the main character returns to his native city, where he meets his old love, friends and parents again They spend four days together and after that nothing will be the same in their lives. TOMORROW MORNING is a love drama. It speaks of a deep passion, sensuality, tenderness, jealousy, possessiveness , infidelity -conflict between irrational and rational. But, above all, it speaks of a need to bring back time, to treasure the moment of happiness and togetherness, the time of great expectations, the moment that happens once and never returns. It speaks of self rediscovery.
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Tomorrow Morning - Trailer
After twelve years spent abroad, the main character returns to his native city, where he meets his old love, friends and parents again They spend four days together and after that nothing will be the same in their lives. TOMORROW MORNING is a love drama. It speaks of a deep passion, sensuality, tenderness, jealousy, possessiveness , infidelity -conflict between irrational and rational. But, above all, it speaks of a need to bring back time, to treasure the moment of happiness and togetherness, the time of great expectations, the moment that happens once and never returns. It speaks of self rediscovery.
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What is a Man Without a Moustache - Trailer
A young widow, an aging widower-returnee, and a priest from a bankrupt parish are struggling to come to terms with the post-war environment, complete with its prejudices, illusions, and unpleasant mentality. What follows is a romantic comedy set in rough landscape, about a woman who falls in love with a local priest. He is not blind to her love, but is unable to choose between the church and her, until the circumstances force him to make his choice.
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What Is a Man Without a Moustache?
A young widow, an aging widower-returnee, and a priest from a bankrupt parish are struggling to come to terms with the post-war environment, complete with its prejudices, illusions, and unpleasant mentality. What follows is a romantic comedy set in rough landscape, about a woman who falls in love with a local priest. He is not blind to her love, but is unable to choose between the church and her, until the circumstances force him to make his choice.
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