RainDance’s Film Festival Awards for 2017

On Friday September 29^th at London’s Mayfair Hotel, hosted by Raindance’s Founder Elliot Grove the awards were announced for this year’s festival – the 25^th which included Leicester Square’s Vue cinema as one of its venues. Over 200 countries submitted films – including features, shorts, webfest, UR and music videos. British filmmaker Guy Ritchie received the Auteur Award this year for his services in British cinema.

Below please find a list of the winners and the judges:-

Main partners of the 25th Raindance Film Festival include Lexus, Century Club, and Vue Cinemas.

FULL LIST OF WINNERS

Best Film – The Constitution

Best Director – Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak (Maya Dardel)

Best Performance – Nebojša Glogovac (The Constitution)

Best Screenplay – Rajko Grlc and Ante Tomic (The Constitution)

Best UK Feature – In Another Life

Best Documentary Feature – RiverBlue: Can Fashion Save The Planet?

Special Jury Mention For Best Documentary Feature – The Family I Had

Discovery Award – I Still Hide To Smoke

Film of the Festival Award – Peaches

Best Short of the Festival– Game

Special Jury Mention For Best Short of the Festival – Viola, Franca

Best UK Short– Cla’am

Best Documentary Short – Riders of the Well of Death

Best Animation Short – Flutter

Best Music Video – Terror

RAINDANCE VRX AWARDS

Best Interactive Narrative VR Experience – Manifest 99 Best Mobile Interactive VR Experience – Virtual Virtual RealityBest Cinematic Narrative VR Experience – Alteration Best Documentary VR Experience – First Impressions Best Animation VR Experience – Dear Angelica Best Music VR Experience – Beethoven’s Fifth Best Branded VR Experience – The Chainsmokers: Paris
Best Sensual VR Experience – Through You Best Social Impact VR Experience – Munduruku: The Fight to Defend the Heart of the Amazon, Best Sound Design VR Experience – Reeps One: Does Not Exist Special Prize: Best Storytelling in Virtual Reality – Arden’s Wake

 

FULL LIST OF JURY MEMBERS

Sean Bean (Game Of Thrones, Lord of the Rings)

Nigel Albermaniche (Production Sound Mixer)

Rosa Bosch (Co-founder of Tequilla Gang, producer at B&W Films)

Simon Boswell (Composer)

Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting, Judge Dread)

Jamie Campbell Bower (Will, RocknRolla)

Ed Caruana (Writer – Gorillaz, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Rick Darge (Zen Dog, Satacracy88)

Ate de Jong (Drop Dead Fred, Deadly Virtues)

Christopher Ecclestone (Doctor Who, 28 Days Later)

Treva Etienne (Terminator: Salvation, Pirates of the Carribean)

Don Hill (Vice Chair of Drama at the University of California)

Aleks Dimitrijevic (Producer – The Smalls)

Celia Imrie (Ab Fab: The Movie, Bridget Jones’s Diary)

Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Broadchurch, 28 Days)

Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Black Sails, Hotel Rwanda)

Karen Lindsay-Stewart (Casting Director – The Woman In Black, Harry Potter 1&2)

Nicholas Lyndhurst (Goodnight Sweetheart, Only Fools and Horses)

Neil Marshall (Director / Writer / Editor – Game Of Thrones, The Descent)

Ali Mashayekhi (Producer – Let’s Rap, Piece Of Mind)

Jack O’Connell (Unbroken, ‘71)

Rachel Portman (OBE) (Composer – Chocolat, Emma)

Nik Powell (Executive Producer – Brimstone, Little Voice)

Patrick Tucker (Director / Lecturer)

Zoran Veljkovic (Cinematographer – Bridge, After Fall Winter)

Johanna von Fischer (Director / Producer – British Independent Film Awards 2006 – 2015)

Debbie Wiseman (MBE) (Composer – Wolf Hall, Wilde)