The Raindance Maverick Award is an award created by independent film festival Raindance Film Festival and presented during the British Independent Film Awards, to "highlight innovation, uniqueness of vision, maverick filmmaking and risk-taking generally in fiction films with a budget under £1m, rewarding bold, creative, ambitious work that belies its limited budget". The award goes to the film's director, producers, and screenwriters.[1]
| Raindance Maverick Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Risk-taking films made under £1m |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | Raindance Film Festival British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) |
| First award | 2004 |
| Currently held by | Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) |
| Website | www |
It was first presented in 2004. The Barn, directed by Ruaridh Webster, was the first recipient of the award. Since its inception, it has been presented under different names. From 2003 to 2014, the award was presented as The Raindance Award. The following name it was renamed into The Discovery Award, remaining under said name until 2019. Later, from 2020 to 2022, the names were merged into The Raindance Discovery Award, being changed into its current name in 2023.
Winners and nominees
edit2000s
edit| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 (7th) [2] | The Barn | Ruaridh Webster, Jake Broder and Adam Long |
| Blinded | Eleanor Yule and Oscar van Heek | |
| Chicken Tikka Masala | Harmage Singh Kalirai, Rony Ghosh, Roopesh Parekh and Sanjay Tandon | |
| 2005 (8th) [3] | Evil Aliens | Jake West |
| Billy Childish Is Dead | Graham Bendel | |
| Sam Jackson's Secret Video Diary | Guy Rowland | |
| 2006 (9th) [4][5] | Ballad of AJ Weberman | James Bluemel and Oliver Ralfe |
| London to Brighton | Paul Andrew Williams, Alastair Clark, Rachel Robey and Ken Marshall | |
| Scenes of a Sexual Nature | Ed Blum, Aschlin Ditta, Suran Goonatilake, Vadim Jean and Amanda Wilkie | |
| 2007 (10th) [6][7] | The Inheritance | Charles-Henri Belleville, Tim Barrow and David Boaretto |
| Exhibit A | Dom Rotheroe and Darren Bender | |
| Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead | Stuart Urban, Frances Cook, Emily Harris, Alan Jay and Mark Pegg | |
| 2008 (11th) [8][9] | Zebra Crossings | Sam Holland |
| Clubbed | Neil Thompson, Geoff Thompson and Martin Carr | |
| Flick | David Howard and Rik Hall | |
| One Day Removals | Mark Stirton | |
| 2009 (12th) [10][11] | Down Terrace | Ben Wheatley, Robin Hill and Andrew Starke |
| Colin | Marc Price | |
| The Disappearance of Alice Creed | J Blakeson and Adrian Sturges | |
| Exam | Stuart Hazeldine, Simon Garrity and Gareth Unwin | |
| They Call It Acid | Gordon Mason | |
2010s
edit| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 (13th) [12][13] | Son of Babylon | Mohamed Al-Daradji, Mithal Ghazi, Jennifer Norridge, Isabelle Stead and Atia Al-Daradji |
| Brilliant Love | Ashley Horner and Sean Conway | |
| Jackboots on Whitehall | The McHenry Brothers, Patrick Scoffin, Karl Richards and Frank Mannion | |
| Legacy | Thomas Ikimi, Amrit Walia, Idris Elba, Jessica Levick, Arabella Page Croft and Kieran Parker | |
| Treacle Jr. | Jamie Thraves and Rob Small | |
| 2011 (14th) [14][15] | Leaving Baghdad | Koutaiba Al-Janabi |
| Acts of Godfrey | Johnny Daukes | |
| Black Pond | Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe and Sarah Brocklehurst | |
| Hollow | Michael Axelgaard and Matthew Holt | |
| A Thousand Kisses Deep | Dana Lustig, Alex Kustanovich and Vadim Moldovan | |
| 2012 (15th) [16][17] | Strings | Rob Savage and Nathan Craig |
| Love Tomorrow | Christopher Payne | |
| Frank | Richard Heslop | |
| Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet | Jesse Vile | |
| City Slacker | James Larkin and Michael Müller | |
| 2013 (16th) [18][19] | The Machine | Caradog W. James and John Giwa-Amu |
| Everyone's Going to Die | Jones and Kelly Broad | |
| The Patrol | Tom Petch, Tom Stuart and Karim Debbagh | |
| Sleeping Dogs | Floris Ramaekers and Simon Clark | |
| Titus | Charlie Cattrall and Nico Mensinga | |
| 2014 (17th) [20][21] | Luna | Dave McKean and Allen Spiegel |
| Film: The Movie | Raffaello Degruttola | |
| Gregor | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | |
| Keeping Rosy | Steve Reeves and Mike Oughton | |
| The Beat Beneath My Feet | John Williams and Michael Müller | |
| 2015 (18th) [22][23] | Orion: The Man Who Would Be King | Jeanie Finlay |
| Aaaaaaaah! | Steve Oram and Andrew Starke | |
| Burn Burn Burn | Chanya Button, Charlie Covell, Daniel-Konrad Cooper and Tim Phillips | |
| The Return | Steven F. Zambo and Jeffrey Schallert | |
| Winter | Heidi Greensmith | |
| 2016 (19th) [24][25] | The Greasy Strangler | Jim Hosking, Toby Harvard, Daniel Noah, Andrew Starke, Ant Timpson, Josh C. Waller and Elijah Wood |
| Black Mountain Poets | Jamie Adams and Jon Rennie | |
| The Darkest Universe | Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe, Tiani Ghosh and Jo-Jo Elison | |
| The Ghoul | Gareth Tunley, Jack Healy Guttmann and Tom Meeten | |
| Gozo | Miranda Bowen and Steven Sheil | |
| 2017 (20th) [26][27] | In Another Life | Philippe de Pierpont, Julie Frères, Hanne Phlypo, Rebecca Houzel and Quentin Jacques |
| Even When I Fall | Sky Neal, Kate McLarnon and Elhum Shakerifar | |
| Halfway | Ben Caird and Jonny Paterson | |
| Isolani | R. Paul Wilson | |
| My Pure Land | Sarmad Masud and Bill Kenwright | |
| 2018 (21st) [28][29] | Voyageuse | May Miles Thomas |
| The Dig | Simon Stone, Moira Buffini, Gabrielle Tana, Ellie Wood, Carolyn Marks Blackwood and Murray Ferguson | |
| Irene's Ghost | Iain Cunningham and David Arthur | |
| A Moment in the Reeds | Mikko Mäkelä, James Watson and Jarno Pimperi | |
| Super November | Douglas King and Josie Long | |
| 2019 (22nd) [30][31] | Children of the Snow Land | Zara Balfour, Marcus Stephenson and Mark Hakansson |
| A Bump Along the Way | Shelly Love | |
| Here for Life | Adrian Jackson & Andrea Luka Zimmerman, James Lingwood, Michael Morris, Cressida Day Cunningham, Rebecca Mark-Lawson, David Arthur and Ellie Land | |
| Muscle | Gerard Johnson, Matthew James Wilkinson, Richard Wylie and Ed Barratt | |
| The Street | Zed Nelson | |
2020s
edit| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 (23rd) [32][33] | Perfect 10 | Eva Riley, Jacob Thomas, Bertrand Faivre and Valentina Brazzini |
| Justine | Jamie Patterson, Jeff Murphy, Jason Rush, Sarah Drew and Julius Beltrame | |
| Looted | Rene Van Pannevis, Kefi Chadwick, Jennifer Eriksson and Jessie Magnum | |
| One Man and His Shoes | Yemi Bamiro and Will Thorne | |
| Rose: A Love Story | Jennifer Sheridan, April Kelley, Sara Huxley, Matt Stokoe, Rob Taylor and Sophie Rundle | |
| 2021 (24th) [34] | Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché | Paul Sng, Celeste Bell, Zoë Howe, Rebecca Mark-Lawson, Matthew Silverman and Daria Mitsche |
| Bank Job | Daniel Edelsty, Hilary Powell and Christopher Hird | |
| The Bike Thief | Matt Chambers, PK Fellowes, Sophia Gibber and Lene Bausager | |
| I Am Belmaya | Sue Carpenter and Christopher Hird | |
| Rebel Dykes | Harri Shanahan, Sian A. Williams and Siobhan Fahey | |
| 2022 (25th) [35] | Winners | Hassan Nazer, Nadira Murray and Paul Welsh |
| Electric Malady | Marie Lidén and Aimara Reques | |
| Fadia's Tree | Sarah Beddington and Susan Simnett | |
| Off the Rails | Peter Day, Grant Keir and Rob Alexander | |
| Rebellion | Elena Sánchez Bellot, Maia Kenworthy and Kat Mansoor | |
| 2023 (26th) [36] | If the Streets Were on Fire | Alice Russell and Gannesh Rajah |
| Is There Anybody Out There? | Ella Glendining and Janine Marmot | |
| Name Me Lawand | Edward Lovelace | |
| Raging Grace | Paris Zarcilla and Chi Thai | |
| Red Herring | Kit Vincent and Ed Owles | |
| 2024 (27th) [37] | Grand Theft Hamlet | Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane, Julia Ton and Rebecca Wolff |
| The Ceremony | Jack King, Hollie Bryan and Lucy Meer | |
| Restless | Jed Hart and Benedict Turnbull | |
| Satu: The Year of the Rabbit | Joshua Trigg | |
| Witches | Elizabeth Sankey, Jeremy Warmsley, Chiara Ventura and Manon Ardisson | |
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