Raindance Film Festival 2010

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Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World and Legacy: Black Ops
Five Daughters (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Philippa Lowthorpe; Stars: Adam Kotz, Juliet Aubrey, Natalie Press, Ian Hart, Eva Birthistle, Sarah Lancashire, Ruth Negga, Lisa Millett, Alison Reid, Andy Gathergood, Joseph Mawle, Christopher Fairbank, Vicky McClure, Lauren Socha, Kierston Wareing)
Dramatisation of the true story of five prostitutes who were murdered in Ipswich in 2008.
Gabe (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Stuart St Paul; Writer: Stuart St Paul)
When they kidnap his daughter a man takes on a gang of human traffickers.
Huge (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Ben Miller; Writer: Ben Miller, Simon Godley, based on the play by Ben Miller, Simon Godley and Jez Butterworth; Stars: Noel Clarke, Johnny Harris, Oliver Chris, Michelle Ryan, Tamsin Egerton, Thandie Newton)
The long, low road to failure on the stand-up comedy circuit.
Jackboots On Whitehall (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Edward McHenry, Rory McHenry; Writer: Edward McHenry, Rory McHenry; Stars: Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Richard E Grant, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, Alan Cumming, Dominic West, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Richard Griffiths, Richard O'Brien, Pam Ferris, Neil Newbon, Tobias Menzies, Stephen Merchant, Hugh Fraser)
Animated re-imaginging of a German invasion during the Second World War
Legacy: Black Ops (Country: Nigeria, UK; Year: 2010; Director: Thomas Ikimi; Writer: Thomas Ikimi; Stars: Idris Elba, Eamonn Walker, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Richard Brake), Official Site
A former special agent holed up in a hotel room in the aftermath of a failed Eastern European mission grows suspicious of his brother's political success.

Huge and Jackboots On Whitehall
Lummox (Country: UK, US; Year: 2009; Director: Peter Boyd Maclean; Writer: Peter Boyd Maclean)
Documentary about the life and work of artist Milree Hughes.
Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Viv Fongenie; Writer: Viv Fongenie; Stars: Edward Hogg, Andrew Knott, Jodie Whittaker, Cathy Tyson, Simon Paris)
A man with a passion for astrophysics experiences a schizophrenic break after suffering a bereavement.
Rebels Without a Clue (Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Ian Vernon; Writer: Ian Vernon; Stars: Rik Barnett, Asher Baynard, Clive Bonelle, Lucy Brennan, Scott Coker, Hylton Collins, Richard Dobson, Cat Dowling, Lauren Fletcher, Stefan Gumbs, Jeni Howarth Williams, Simon Kenny, Jonathan Kilcourse, John Leeson, Katherine Ann McGregor), Official Site
Two teens get more than they bargained for after stealing drugs and a Cadillac from a vicious killer.
Swansea Love Story ()
Documentary about young heroin addicts on the streets of Swansea.
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