Bahareh Rahnama and her daughter Pariya in an Italian film festival

Anyone close to the organisation of Raindance will wonder; time and time again, year after year, why the tireless staff at the Raindance Film Festival subject themselves to the stress of organising this annual event. The answer is simple. We at Raindance believe strongly in the importance of film festivals.

There are three ways a film festival strives to assist the filmmaker in their film’s marketing:

 Awards
Winning an award is a great reason to put laurels on a festival poster. Of course, the stature of the festival will determine the importance of the award. But does a passerby really read which festival has awarded the film? And if the laurel comes from a prestigious festival like Raindance – wouldn’t the filmmaker make the important laurels larger? Raindance Film Festival has a wide range of awards, from its features and (OscarTM qualifying) shorts, to its dynamic Virtual Reality strand.