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Weirdsville will open the 15th edition of the Raindance Film Festival
This independent festival is "dedicated to fostering and promoting independent film in the UK and around the world". More than simply a festival, Raindance also runs training courses for up and coming film-makers and also hosts the British Independent Film Awards (read our news story on this year's nominees).
New awards for 2007 include the Canon Best Cinematography Award, with the winner taking home a Canon XH A1 HD camera and the Adobe Animation Award, the festival say: "The award winning film will be chosen for its originality and technical proficiency by the Raindance jury and an Adobe animation specialist." The festival will open with Weirdsville on September 25 and run until October 7.
View previous years coverage of the Raindance Film Festival festival:
Raindance Latest Reviews
Guy meets Girl and makes beautiful - and Oscar-winning - music with her.
A detective caught in a battle of wits with a killer is forced to pay for his past failings.
Moody and atmospheric picture about unrequited love on skid row.
The unlikely lives of Canadian junkies.
Dystopian fairytale about a 'city without a voice'.
A group of punk misfits ask a famous novelist to join their band... despite the fact he can't play, only to find their plans spiralling out of control.
The forces of good and evil battle over a device with the power to save or destroy Moscow.
A group of Johannesburg stand-up comedians take a roadtrip to perform at a rock concert.
Two brothers who hate each other drive to Skye to search for their dead daddy's money.
A tragicomic look at the events preceeding the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
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