In a market of endless good content, hungry audiences are looking for great films that appeal to them and their personal tastes, but which find themselves lost on the tenth page of 'originals'. New independent VOD services are here to meet them. Curated and unique selections from programmers you trust. Genre-based content that isn't tickboxing. We're talking quality over quantity.

Raindance prides itself as a home for independent filmmakers, often without the budgets or hustle of studio-funded pictures, but producing incredible films for an audience eager to seek them out. Relatively new on the circuit but growing quickly, our guests provide an important and exciting solution to help match audiences to the films they desperately want.

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PANELLISTS

Weerada Sucharitkul - FilmDoo

Weerada Sucharitkul is the CEO and Cofounder of FilmDoo, a global online platform helping people to discover and watch great films from around the world. FilmDoo recently expanded into edtech with their new edutainment platform helping people to learn languages and explore cultures through film

Omar Nasar -Comedy Crowd TV

Co-founder, producer and head of legal at Comedy Crowd TV, a new online comedy channel powered by a crowd of comedy creators and fans. Through the channel, Omar works to open doors to creators of all backgrounds and offer a place for fans/industry to discover new comedy and talent.

Angie West and Jac Nunns - Co-founders of QueerBee

Award-winning filmmakers and film festival fans who created QueerBee to present film-festival-quality short films on LGBTIQ topics, direct from the people who made them.

Matthew Meredith - Co-founder of Film Life

FilmLife (www.filmlife.com) is a new one-stop marketplace for premium films and long-form entertainment available to stream at an attractive, budget price. It is also a platform for independent creators to bring their own content to sell and distribute. We aim to establish a new portal for creative voices in a fair and professional fashion, which yield to the core values of community and quality. Founders, James and Matthew Meredith, are Australian brothers based in London who are focused on bringing this platform to life.

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Chair: Phillip Whiteman

Phillip has been a part of the Raindance team over the last couple of years. He works as a director, producer on commercials and short films. He got his start making a global episodic series that was sold to Italian and German TV. You can find more about him and his company here: www.flipfilms.co.uk

Screening: Friday 20th September 14:30 | Friday 20th September 15:30