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Raindance Film Festival is proud to be celebrating its 15th anniversary year with a superb jury, superb and diverse films and including Mick Jones and some of the film industry’s most exciting filmmakers will both sit on the jury for the this year’s festival. Raindance, now in its fifteenth year, will take place from September 25 – October 7 2007 in London’s West End.
Raindance has a reputation for its strong interest in music in film, and in the past has programmed some great rock’n’roll movies including Billy Childish Is Dead, The Devil & Daniel Johnston, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, Neil Young: Heart of Gold, Get Thrashed and Brothers of the Head, as well as documentaries on The Ramones, Lambchop, Crass, Mission of Burma, Johnny Thunders, Einsturzende Neubauten, MC5, The Real Kids and the music of Jamaica.
Last Year’s Jurors included Lou Reed, Anton Corbijn and Marky Ramone, who hosted a Q&A session after Too Tough To Die, a documentary on 2004’s tribute concert to a dying Johnny Ramone.
Festival programmers trawled through over 1,000 submissions to come up with this years crop. Highlights include:
Crazy Love, Frank & Cindy, about A deeply personal documentary about Frank Garcia, an 80's one-hit wonder musician and his blonde bombshell wife Cindy, who makes him live in the basement, Off The Grid: Life On The Mesa, about amazing homes and structures made from rubbish.
Twenty To Life: The Life And Times of John Sinclair. the ex-manager of MC5 who was busted for smoking grass and served a prison sentence in America. He is one of the many filmmakers attending Raindance this year.
Click on the link above for the trailer. |
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