{"id":3266,"date":"2008-10-09T19:57:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T18:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=3266"},"modified":"2010-11-06T16:41:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T16:41:34","slug":"interview-eliot-grove-on-the-raindance-film-festival-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/10\/09\/interview-eliot-grove-on-the-raindance-film-festival-200\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Eliot Grove on The Raindance Film Festival 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Eliot Grove<\/a><\/strong> is the founder and director of The Raindance Film Festival<\/a><\/strong>, which is the UK’s largest independent film festival.<\/p>\n

He founded it in 1993 and since\u00a0then it has premiered films such as Pulp Fiction<\/a>,\u00a0The Blair Witch Project<\/a>,\u00a0Capturing the Friedmans<\/a>,\u00a0Memento<\/a>, and\u00a0Oldboy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Raindance organisation also\u00a0offers advice and support for independent filmmakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although based in London they are open for anyone who might want to work with them in another city or country.<\/p>\n

In addition, Eliot also helped start the British Independent Film Awards<\/a> in 1998.<\/p>\n

The current Raindance festival<\/a> is currently on in London until October 12th and I recently spoke with Eliot about what’s been happening this year.<\/p>\n

You can listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Eliot_Grove_on_The_Raindance_Film_Festival_2008.mp3]\n

You can also download\u00a0it as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the full Festival programme go to www.raindance.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Tickets can be booked online at their site or by telephone on\u00a00871 200 2000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Raindance.tv<\/a> will host further exclusive material via www.raindance.tv with trailers and filmmaker interviews.<\/p>\n

> Download this interview as an MP3<\/a>
\n> Official Raindance site<\/a>
\n> The British Independent Film Awards<\/a>
\n> Join the Raindance Facebook group<\/a>
\n> Eliot’s MySpace page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eliot Grove is the founder and director of The Raindance Film Festival, which is the UK’s largest independent film festival. He founded it in 1993 and since\u00a0then it has premiered films such as Pulp Fiction,\u00a0The Blair Witch Project,\u00a0Capturing the Friedmans,\u00a0Memento, and\u00a0Oldboy. The Raindance organisation also\u00a0offers advice and support for independent filmmakers. Although based in London […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19,15],"tags":[566,2800,138,2796,565],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}