Daryl Chase’s “Macbeth” gained Greatest U.Ok. Characteristic at this 12 months’s Raindance Film Festival, with Marie-Elsa Sgualdo’s “Silent Rebellion” successful Greatest Worldwide Characteristic, Katie Camosy’s “Gaslit” successful Greatest Documentary Characteristic and Rob Alicea’s “Serena” taking residence the competition’s inaugural Greatest Horror Characteristic award. Winners of the competition’s thirty fourth version had been introduced this Friday forward of the closing night time screening of “Eddie Cochran: Don’t Forget Me,” which gained a Greatest U.Ok. Director for filmmaker Kirsty Bell.
Tailored from Shakespeare’s traditional, “Macbeth” spins the famed story of the titular king in a movie “brought to life via a social enterprise production, tackling barriers to filmmaking,” whereas World Conflict II drama “Silent Rebellion” “follows a virtuous teen in 1943 Switzerland who questions her village’s morality when they turn away French refugees.” Camosy’s “Gaslit” trails icon Jane Fonda as she travels throughout the oil fields of West Texas’ Permian Basin and thru the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, visiting the communities impacted by oil and fuel manufacturing. Horror winner “Serena” tackles AI anxiousness by way of the story of a down-on-his-luck musician tasked with testing an more and more harmful chatbot.
Anooya Swamy’s “Pankaja,” Liane Aviram and Louis Hollis’ “The Oath” and Jocelyn Charles’s “God is Shy” are actually all eligible for Academy Award consideration after successful the respective Oscar-qualifying awards at Raindance: Greatest Reside Motion Quick, Greatest Documentary Quick and Greatest Animation Quick. Nonetheless on the quick movie entrance, Róisín Burns’s “Wonderwall” was awarded Greatest UK Quick. The competition can also be BIFA-qualifying for British options.
The thirty fourth version of Raindance opened on June 17 with the U.Ok. premiere of Michel Ok. Parandi’s sci-fi thriller “April X,” starring “Heated Rivalry” breakout Connor Storrie. On prime of the aggressive awards, the competition additionally offered a collection of Icon Awards to famend actors Brian Cox and Myriam Margolyes, American movie director and co-founder of Troma Leisure movie studio Lloyd Kaufman and a posthumous award to American rock legend Eddie Cochran. Offered to Eddie’s sister and niece, the Icon Award is ready to be displayed alongside his authentic Gretsch guitar and his different trophies on the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Cochran is the topic of the competition’s closing movie, Kirsty Bell’s “Eddie Cochran: Don’t Forget Me.”
“Gaslit” (Courtesy of Raindance Movie Competition)
Courtesy of Raindance Movie Competition
This 12 months’s jury included actors Adriana Paz (“Emilia Pérez”), Charlotte Hope (“The Nun”), Jacob Anderson (“Game of Thrones”), Sope Dirisu (“My Father’s Shadow”), Eva Birthistle (“Bad Sisters”) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“The Tudors”) in addition to filmmakers Lee Knight (“A Friend of Dorothy”), Chris Overton (“The Silent Child”) and Jamie Donoughue (“Shok”). Different jury members embrace BAFTA-winning producer Fiona Lamptey, Jinga Movies founder Julian Richards, Tigerlily Productions co-founder Natasha Dack Ojumu, and head of improvement at Marauder Footage, Maxine Gordon.
Raindance offered 85 narrative and documentary options in its 2026 version, in addition to 112 quick movies and 27 immersive initiatives. Forty-eight of the options – 56% of the overall – come from first-time administrators.
Full record of winners under:
Greatest Worldwide Characteristic: “Silent Rebellion,” dir. Marie-Elsa Sgualdo
Greatest Documentary Characteristic: “Gaslit,” dir. Katie Camosy
Discovery Award for Greatest Debut Characteristic (the Elisar Cabrera Award): “Thanks for Nothing,” dir. Stella Marie Markert
Greatest Debut Director: Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg and Sofie Rørdam for “Walls – Akinni Inuk”
Greatest Efficiency in a Debut Characteristic: Lila Gueneau, “Silent Rebellion”
Greatest Horror Characteristic (the Roger Corman Award): “Serena,” dir. Rob Alicea
Greatest U.Ok. Characteristic: “Macbeth,” dir. Daryl Chase
Greatest Director of a U.Ok. Characteristic: Kirsty Bell, “Eddie Cochran: Don’t Forget Me”
Greatest Efficiency in a U.Ok. Characteristic: Izabella Malewska, “Tramp”
Greatest U.Ok. Cinematography: Dan Poole, “Section 1591 – Sex Trafficking of Children in the U.S.A.”
Spirit of Raindance Award (the Philip Gambrill Award): “So What,” dir. Blake Inniss
Greatest Reside Motion Quick: “Pankaja,” dir. Anooya Swamy
Greatest Documentary Quick: “The Oath,” dir. Liane Aviram Louis Hollis
Greatest Animation Quick: “God is Shy,” dir. Jocelyn Charles
Greatest U.Ok. Quick: “Wonderwall,” dir. Róisín Burns
