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Oct 13

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Win at Raindance tops off Wonderful Weekend

Stranger Things had its long-awaited U.K. premiere at the Raindance Film Festival this Friday and a repeat screening on Saturday morning. Both screenings were very well attended. Our two lead actors, Bridget Collins and Adeel Akhtar, joined in the Q&A at the Friday screening. Also present this weekend were supporting actors Victoria Jeffrey and Taran Wiseman.

We were thrilled to share the film with a British audience. The cherry on the cake was that Stranger Things won the top jury prize for Best U.K. Feature!

The jury included actors Dexter Fletcher and Helen McCrory, director Gillies Mackinnon and film critic Wendy Mitchell. This was a fantastic year for Raindance, with a great line-up, exciting panels and attendances up by 62%.

Check out the links below for press on Stranger Things’ Raindance win.

Hollywood Reporter:
Eleanor Burke, Ron Eyal’s ‘Stranger Things’ Gets Raindance Film Festival Best U.K. Feature Nod

indieWire
“Stranger Things,” “Just Between Us” Take Top Prizes at Raindance Fest

Screen International
Raindance winners include Stranger Things, Just Between Us, Tilt

Variety
‘Stranger Things’ nabs U.K. feature award 

From left to right, "Stranger Things" actor Adeel Akhtar, co-directors Ron Eyal and Eleanor Burke and Raindance Festival Director Elliot Grove.

Sep 21

Cincinnati Club

See You In Cincinnati

 

Catch Stranger Things in Ohio at the Cincinnati Film Festival 2011. The festival runs from Sep 29 to Oct 2. It looks to be a very exciting year for the fest. The line-up is great!

Stranger Things is screening on Saturday, October 1st @ 5:00pm in the Cincinnati Club’s Rathskellar Room.

The Cincinnati Club is at 30 Garfield Place, Suite 10, Cincinnati, OH 45202.

Click here for Stranger Things tickets (the second item down the list).

Sep 18

bendfilm

Round the Bend

Stranger Things will be in Oregon this October at the BendFilm Festival. An indie film favorite, the festival also will feature Alrick Brown’s Kinyarwanda and Alex Ross Perry’s The Color Wheel, both of which have been traveling alongside us on the festival circuit.

Click here for  the Film Threat rundown of the full line-up.

Here is the screening information for Stranger Things:

  • Saturday, Oct 8 @ 1pm at the Regal Cinemas Old Mill 2 (680 SW Powerhouse Drive , Bend, OR 97702)
  • Sunday, Oct 9 @ 6:30pm at the Sisters Movie House 1 (720 Desperado Ct, Sisters, OR 97759)

Click here for the BendFilm program page and the link for tickets.

Sep 6

Raindance

Come On With the Rain

Here’s some happy news for this drizzly day in both New York and London. It’s finally time for the UK premiere of Stranger Things!

The film will be screening at the upcoming Raindance Film Festival in London this October, where it’s in competition for Best British Film. Ron and I will both be over in London for the premiere. I know it’s been a long wait on the British side and we hope everyone can make it. It would be absolutely wonderful to see you there and it would be fantastic to sell these screenings out, so please do tell everyone!

STRANGER THINGS at RAINDANCE:

  • Friday, 7 October, 2011 @ 9:00PM
  • Saturday, 8 October, 2011 @ 10:00AM

Both screenings are at the Apollo Cinema Piccadilly (19 Lower Regent Street, London SW1Y 4LR – Near Piccadilly Circus).

Tickets are available through the programme page at http://bit.ly/STRainProg or by phone on 0871 220 6000 .

Click here for Stranger Things in the Raindance programme for more information.

Raindance’s review: 

Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal’s first feature film is a masterpiece of narrative, character and acting. Featuring Adeel Akhtar (Faisal in Chris Morris’ groundbreaking comedy Four Lions) and Bridget Collins (a considerably talented newcomer), Stranger Things examines the nature of human contact and relationship – and how extraordinarily capable we all are of compassion and kindness.

A grieving Oona (Collins) returns to her dead mother’s house to take care of her possessions and property. While there, however, she discovers a homeless man, Mani (Akhbar), squatting in one of the rooms. Making a hasty escape, Mani leaves behind his sketchbook – which reveals to Oona considerable artistic talent, a quality that seemed to surround her mother. 

Oona invites Mani to stay the night, and the two tentatively form a connection. Over the next few days they come to know each other a bit better, but Mani can’t seem to be able to leave his vagrant life behind him.

The relationship between Mani and Oona is as cautious as it is fulfilling: both are stuck in a rut and they find salvation within one another through kindness and understanding. The depth of human emotion expressed in the camera work and the prolonged close-ups of the actor’s faces is incredible, as is the underlying message behind this film: in a world where chance rules our lives and we can be described as ‘driftwood’, understanding can be the most powerful of tools to create the most surprising of circumstances. After all, stranger things can happen.

Orestes Kouzof

Sep 6

EIFF

The True North strong and free

Today as Ron makes his way up to the Toronto Film Festival Talent Lab, we have some more Canadian festival news to share: Stranger Things will be screening at the Edmonton International Film Festival later this month. It’s the western Canada premiere. Please tell all your Edmontonian friends to come!

Other films playing at the festival include Sarah Polley’s new film Take This Waltz (which will also have it’s western Canada premiere), documentary The Swell Season by  Nick August-Perna, Carlo Mirabella-Davis and Chris Dapkins, and fellow IFP lab alum Josh Hyde’s Postales.

STRANGER THINGS

  • Sunday, Sep 25 @ 5pm at Zeidler Hall in the Citadel (9828 101 A AVE, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
Click here for more information from the festival programme site.

 

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