Raindance brings future classics to London

25 2007
Good news for those Londoners tired of watching the same old films on their counch in their flat: this year's Raindance Film Festival is about to kick off with one of its strongest line-ups yet.

After being set up to offer an edgier alternative to the well-heeled London Film Festival, Raindance is now in its fifteenth year and firmly established as a showcase for the best in world left-field cinema.

Among the films to have appeared at the festival before going on to become 'cult classics' are Memento, Capturing the Friedmans and Coffee and Cigarettes.

Highlights this year include the latest offering from director Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park, which follows on from My Own Private Idaho and Elephant in dealing with teen trauma and angst, this time telling the tale of a young skateboarder who accidentally kills a security guard.

In addition, those visiting one of the venues across the city over the next two weeks and thinking they could do better will be given the chance to pitch ideas for films at the panel of LiveAmmunition – a move which certainly paid off for the people behind Meet the Parents and 51st State.
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