Raindance Canada’s One Night Stands

Short, Sharp Essential Classes for Filmmakers – a great way to start your filmmaking year!

Raindance Canada is a unique series of Wednesday evening classes beginning January 28th – February 25th as part of the Filmmakers Foundation Certificate Series, an investment of only $39.99 + GST in your film future !

Taken individually, these 5 courses cost $199.95 + GST
Filmmakers Foundation Certificate – all 5 classes for the total of $159.96 + GST

Navigating Cannes: How to submit, what to expect, how to work the premier festival, and how to extend the life of Cannes to benefit your film career internationally.

Sound Effects on A No Budget: If It Sounds Right, It Is Right
Sound recording – it’s all so technical, or is it? Learn how to think outside the (recording) box, and save time and money by avoiding big mistakes.

The Art of Action: How to stage, film and edit action scenes, including martial arts, sword fighting and your basic rock’em sock’em fight scene!

The Essentials of Entertainment Law: There’s no money in film, and where is money, there are contracts and where there are contracts, there are lawyers, or at the very least, law. Learn the ins and outs of how to protect your property and how to make money doing so.

The Triple Threat: Camera, Editing and Production. From a script comes a film, lots of film, too much or too little if you don’t know what you are doing. From shooting economically, to editing with focus and production essentials, a need to know course before you start rolling.

Register early as these workshops are offered one night only and available space is limited!

For more information on the above workshops, as well as the benefits of Raindance Canada membership, please visit our website at www.raindancecanada.com

Raindance Canada membership is FREE too !! Just send an e-mail with your name to membership@raindancecanada.com

Life’s Hard / La Drumul Mare (2008)

Director: Gabriel Sirbu
Screenwriter: Gabriel Sirbu
Cast: Claudia Prec, Mihaela Betiu, Andi Vasluianu, Gabriel Spahiu
Running time: 20 min.

In the Bucharest gridlock, a thief strikes up a strange relationship with his female victim.

Awards / Festivals
- Jury Award (Aspen Short Film Festival) 2008
- Official selection (Palm Springs Int’l Film Society) 2008
- Official selection (Zagreb Int’l Film Festival) 2008

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Home / Acasa (2007)

Director: Paul Negoescu
Screenwriter: Paul Negoescu
Cast: Gabriel Spahiu, Marian Ralea
Running time: 14 min.

A Romanian migrant worker returning home from Spain on Christmas Eve. During the ride from the airport, the taxi driver reveals he wants to work abroad too. But after he sees the cold reunion of his client’s family he has a second thought…

Awards / Festivals
- Special Mention (Cinema Porto in Bra Int’l Film Festival)
- Special Mention (Paris Signes-de-Nuits Film Festival)
- Official Selection (Rotterdam Int’l Film Festival)
- Official Selection (BFI London Film Festival)
- Official Selection (Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival)

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Interior. Block of Flats, Hallway / Interior.Scara de Bloc (2007)

Director: Ciprian Alexandrescu
Scriptwriter: Simona Ghita
Cast: Tudor Aaron Istodor, Simona Ghita, Luminita Gheorghiu, Gabriel Spahiu, Vlad Ivanov
Running Time: 16 min

A couple argues, but suddenly bigger matters get in their minds and they are drawn to the hallway where they meet several of their neighbours.

Awards / Festivals
- Special jury prize (Uppsala International Short Film Festival) 2008
- Official selection (Cannes) 2008
- Arte short film award (Hamburg Int’l Short Film Festival) 2008

* audience-choice winner at “romaniancinemaNOW: a film festival preview“ (Dec.12)

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A Very Short Trilogy of Loneliness / O Foarte Scurta Trilogia A Singuratatii (2006)

Director: Bogdan Apetri
Screenwriter: Bogdan Apetri
Cast: Marius David, Laur Marin, Anca David
Running time: 7 min.

Open country and a small river, the vista stretching far into the distance. A car approaches and stops. A woman gets out, lights a cigarette, stares into space, then drives on. And then another car, another figure, briefly only, alone again, just passing. Brief stops in a stark landscape, loneliness pausing for loneliness. Meditative moments from a post-industrial age.

Awards / Festivals
- Official Selection (Seattle Int’l Film Festival) 2007
- Official Nomination (Student Oscar) 2007
- Official Selection (Cottbus Film Festival) 2007

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Green Oaks / Stejarii Verzi (2004)

Director: Ruxandra Zenide
Screenwriter: Marek Epstein
Cast: George Hoffmann, Maria Dinulescu, Valentin Popescu, Juliet Strimbeanu, Dorotea Brandin, Roberto Molo
Running time: 30 min.

George looks after his little sister in a remote part of Romania. They are all alone in the world. And even if fate over-takes them, life will reassert its claims.

Awards / Festivals
- Golden Unicorn (Alpinale Film Festival) 2004
- Official Selection (Ismalia Int’l Film Festival) 2004

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Megatron (2008)

Director: Marian Crisan
Screenwriter: Marian Crisan
Cast: Gabriela Crisu, Damian Oancea, Erwin Simsensohn, Maxim Adrian Strinu
Running time: 14 min.

Maxim lives with his mother in a village near Bucharest. It’s Maxim birthday; he’s turning 8. His mother takes him to Bucharest, to McDonald’s. Maxim will do anything to meet his father who lives in the city.

Awards / Festivals
- Palme D’Or (Cannes Int’l Film Festival) 2008
- Official Selection (Thessaloniki Int’l Film Festival) 2008
- Official Selection (Austin Int’l Film Festival) 2008

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The Yellow Smiley Face / Fata Galbena Care Rade (2008)

Director: Constantin Popescu
Screenwriter: Doru Lupe
Cast: Luminita Gheorghiu, Teodor Corban, George Constantinescu
Running time: 15 min.

Mia and Florin Popescu, the two main characters, are two ordinary people, both over 50 and both a little scared of the technological changes going on around them. To them, the computer is nothing more than a piece of furniture until the chance to communicate with their son, Alex, who lives in USA, makes them step into the virtual world. They explore this new territory using the instructions Alex has sent them in a letter.

Awards / Festivals
- Official selection (Locarno Film Festival) 2008
- Official selection (Transylvania International Film Festival) 2008
- Official Selection (Warsaw Film Festival) 2008

Boogie (2008)

Director: Radu Muntean
Screenwriter: Alexandru Baciu, Radu Muntean, Razvan Radulescu
Cast: Dragos Bucur, Anamaria Marinca, Mimi Branescu, Adrian Vancica, Vlad Muntean
Running time: 102 min.

Bogdan Boogie Ciocazanu, a successful businessman, is on a relaxing seaside vacation with his family. By coincidence, he runs into his best buddies from high school. As evening falls, a heavy trip down memory lane ensues. The former schoolmates talk about past drinking binges and forgotten sexual encounters. The all-male gang decides to try and re-live past glories with a night on the town. The family man is torn between going home to his wife, and having one last, wild party with the boys.

Awards / Festivals
- Best Screenplay (Hamptons International Film Festival) 2008
- Official Selection (Cannes Festival) 2008
- Official Selection (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival) 2008
- Official Selection (Stockholm International Film Festival) 2008