Cinema artists at the celebration of Hafez 2023

Platform for new talent

Festivals have traditionally been the place where professionals and filmmakers alike go to spot new talent. I can remember the first time I went to a film festival in my native Toronto and was completely swept away by Jim Jarmush’s debut Stranger Than Paradise. The fact that he attended in person, adorned in black with a mop of prematurely white hair was an added bonus to his 1984 TIFF screening.

Raindance itself has championed new filmmakers like Edgar Wright, Christopher Nolan and many others since its launch in 1993.