Raindance 20th Film Festival 2012- Call For Submissions

Feb. 28, 2012 - PRLog -- Raindance Film Festival 2012 – Submission Call.  Calling for Short Films, Features, Documentary, Experimental, Music Videos and Children’s Films.

Raindance is the largest Independent Film Festival in Europe and is listed by Variety as one of the world’s Top 50 ‘unmissable film festivals’.  Raindance aims to nurture, Support and promote independent films and filmmakers from all around the World. The Film Festival takes place in the heart of London at the Appollo Cinema Piccadilly Circus from the 26 Sept- 7 Oct 2012.

Submission Deadline- The regular deadline is 6 May 2012
-   The late deadline is 10 June 2012
-   Withoutabox-only Extended Deadline of 24 June 2012

For more information visit: www.raindance.co.uk/site/festival

Our festival is known for being bold, edgy and sometimes daring, screening all genres of feature and documentary (over 70 UK Premieres a Year) and over 200 shorts, making it the most noted festival of discovery and for launching debut filmmakers in Europe.

In the long run, the most influential book of the 20th Century may  turn out to be Joseph Campbell's THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES.

It's certainly true that the book is having a major impact on  writing and story-telling, but above all on movie-making. Aware or  not, filmmakers like John Boorman, George Miller, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Coppola owe their successes to the ageless pattern that Joseph Campbell identifies in the book.

The ideas in the book are an excellent set of analytical tools.
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With them you can compose a story to meet any situation, a story that will be dramatic, entertaining, and psychologically true.

With them you can always determine what's wrong with a story that's floundering, and you can find a better solution to almost any story problem by examining the pattern laid out in the book.

Christopher Vogler - The Essence of Storytelling There's nothing new in the book. The ideas in it are older than the Pyramids, older than Stonehenge, older than the earliest cave painting.

Campbell's contribution was to gather the ideas together, recognize them, articulate them, name them. He exposed the pattern for the first time, the pattern that lies behind every story ever told.

Campbell is a mythographer -- he writes about myths. What he discovered in his study of world myths is that THEY ARE ALL BASICALLY THE SAME STORY -- retold endlessly in infinite variation.

He discovered that all story-telling, consciously or not, follows the ancient patterns of myth, and that all stories, from the crudest jokes to the highest flights of literature, can be understood in terms of the "HERO MYTH"; the "MONOMYTH" whose principles he lays out in the book.

Campbell was a student of the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, and the ideas in THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES are often described as Jungian.

The book is based on Jung's idea of the "Archetypes" constantly repeating characters who occur in the dreams of all people and the myths of all cultures.

Jung believed that these archetypes are reflections of the human mind -- that our minds divide themselves into these characters to play out the drama of our lives.

The repeating characters of the hero myth, such as the young hero, the wise old man, the shape-shifting woman, and the shadowy nemesis, are identical with the archetypes of the human mind, as shown in dreams. That's why myths, and stories constructed on the mythological model, are always psychologically true.

Such stories are true models of the workings of the human mind, true maps of the psyche. They are psychologically valid and realistic even when they portray fantastic, impossible, unreal events.

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