About us

Hear a rumbling down below?
Somewhere between the horny place and the hungry place?
You are listening to your inner beast. Yes, it’s The Film Maker Within!

Welcome to Raindance.tv, where we aim to feed and charm, to please and tease, to console and arouse that very beast.

Sixteen years ago, a crazy London-based Canadian called Elliot Grove started a micro-budget Barnum-and-Bailey film festival for outsiders and indies and rejects, called Raindance. With a lot of help along the way from directors like Quentin Tarantino, Mike Figgis, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, and Paul Greengrass, he succeeded.

Six years later, he and his merry gang started an alternative awards festival for indie cinema – the BIFAs. Now they are the toast of London town and its independent film world. In November ’07, the BIFA’s celebrated their 10th anniversary in the newly re-launched and legendary London music venue, The RoundHouse. The winning film was that coolest and smartest of music movies, ‘Control’.

And now, all shiny new, for 2008, we Raindancers bring you the latest, web-wisest, and cutest offering yet….

Discover. Be Discovered. On Raindance.tv

Raindance.tv. Dedicated to fostering and promoting indie films and filmmakers. Based in the heart of London, and streaming out to you worldwide, we offer the best off-beat shorts, features and docs from Raindance and our network of filmmakers. Anyone with a laptop and a broadband connection can join us. And join the 300,000 others who have already watched us in the last five months, via our 10 media platforms.

Come and join the party. Stay in touch by registering, and be the first to find out as we launch our new offerings over the next few months. Aimed at anyone who wants to watch movies, make movies, or meet other moviemakers. We’re joining up the indie filmmaker community, and giving a voice to that beast within. Worldwide.

Come join us dancing through the human zoo.
With madness and love from London

Alexei, Amelie, Andre, Andy, Captain Boing, Elliot, Joe, Johanna, Julian, Keith, Molly, Sally, Sara, Steve, Suzanne, Tessa, Xavier, Zack and Zara.

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