LONDON, September 29, 2009 - Raindance.tv launches a supplement to the 17th Raindance Film Festival with an online film festival airing features including the thriller 'The Dinner Party' and documentary 'The Narcotic Farm' about America's first prison for drug addicts.

As the 17th Raindance Film Festival fast approaches, Raindance TV prepares an additional way to view films premiering in the festival—an online film festival airing from October 6 through October 11. Users can log in to http://raindance.tv between 7pm and 10pm and stream a collection of shorts and features every night.

This year marks the third year of the online edition of the festival but the first time it is available via Raindance's recently launched online film viewing platform, Raindance TV.

All online screenings take place after the live screenings at the festival. Along with 'The Dinner Party' and 'The Narcotic Farm', other features airing online include 'Playing Columbine', 'Borges and I', ' 'Resurrecting the Street Walker', 'All the Years of Trying', 'Popatopolis', 'Moths', 'The Philosopher King', 'The Director's Cut', 'Miles Away', 'We Fun', and 'Twilight Dancing'.

Alongside the 13 features, 16 shorts will also air throughout the week. Be sure to check the schedule and allow yourself to grab some popcorn, sit back, and... Enjoy!

Daily schedule of films available between 7pm and 10pm:

Tuesday October 6:
Features:
Playing Columbine [dir: Danny Ledonne]
All the Years of Trying [dir: Dom Shaw]
Shorts:
Echoes [dir: Rob Brown]
Touche [dir: Trevor Hardy]
Cupid [dir: Melvin J. Montalbon]

Wednesday October 7:
Features:
Borges and I [dir: Emily Harris, Yoni Bentovim]
The Narcotic Farm [dir: JP Olsen]
Shorts:
A Daily Day [dir: Elsa Blayau]
An Ode to Modern Democracy and the Hairdresser [dir: Matt Strachan]
And What Remains [dir: Marc Havener]
Natal Attraction [dir: Tom Fry]

Thursday October 8:
Features:
Moths [dir: Andrès A. Arce]
Shorts:
How To Stop A Man From Committing Suicide [dir: Markus Bohman]
Old Song and Dance [dir: Ronni Raygun Thomas]
Wrap [dir: Portia Bartnett-Herrin]
Shakespeare, Tarantino, and the Mitchell Brothers [dir: Mark Davis]
Forgotten Bird of Paradise [dir: Dominic Brown]

Friday October 9:
Features:
The Director’s Cut [dir: Paul Komadina]
Popatopolis: How to Make a Movie in Three Days [dir: Clay Westervelt]
The Philosopher Kings [dir: Patrick Shen]
Shorts:
Children of Manila [dir: Alessandro Molatore]
Where the Monsters Go [dir: Van Poynton]

Saturday October 10:
Features:
Miles Away [dir: Brendan Mcnamee]
Resurrecting the Street Walker [dir: Ozgur Uyanik]
Shorts:
Tea and Biscuits [dir: Chris Klockner]
Meat Waffle [dir: Leah Shore]

Sunday October 11:
Features:
The Dinner Party [dir: Scott Murden]
Twilight Dancing [dir: Joshua Tong]
We Fun [dir: Matthew Robison]
Shorts:
Super Hero Blues [dir: Cass Marks]

About Raindance.tv
Tied in to two of the autumn season’s most popular and well-established fixtures (The Raindance Film Festival in October, and the British Independent Film Awards in December), raindance.tv plc brings together several key online offerings under one roof: video sharing, networking and resources.
Raindance.tv offers a blend of high-quality, independently-produced, feature and short films via its website http://raindance.tv and via other IPTV and mobile networks, enabling users everywhere to watch films from around the world.
For more information visit http://www.raindance.tv

About Raindance Film Festival
Raindance is the UK’s largest independent film festival, showcasing shorts and features from around the world and specialising in directorial debuts. Distinguishing itself from other festivals with its rock and roll attitude, Raindance runs riot in the West End of London each October.
As well as showing independent films from around the world, it hosts a number of special events, 25 in 12 days last year, including masterclasses, Q&A sessions with industry professionals, its renowned pitching event Live!Ammunition! where you could end up selling your idea to a movie exec, one-off versions of the courses they run year-long, and, of course, parties.
In 1993, its first year, Raindance hosted 22 features and 65 short films, and attracted 1,300 attendees. For closing night they screened What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? starring Johnny Depp and featuring the film debut of a 14-year-old Leonardo Dicaprio.
In the following years Raindance premiered, among others, Pulp Fiction, The Blair Witch Project and Memento. In 2007, the festival showcased over 75 features and 160 shorts from over 40 countries, and in excess of 10,000 people attended.