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About Raw Talent

Raw Talent is a new production initiative from Raindance. Led by Raindance founder Elliot Grove, cult director Ate de Jong of DROP DEAD FRED fame and San Fu Maltha – producer of several international award winning pictures – Raw Talent wants independent films to thrive by enabling a filmmaker-centric approach to boost unique talent.

By filmmakers for filmmakers, Raindance Raw Talent intends to produce three to five feature films per year.

Have an idea that is unconventional, controversial, provocative? It may well find a home at Raw Talent. We accept edgy, socially relevant and intellectually/emotionally challenging projects. We welcome all genres, with the exception of blatant propaganda, while pornographic material should be avoided unless it explicitly serves the story.

Our only remits for submissions are passion for the project from the creators and the ability to work within our budgetary considerations with a mix of talented newcomers and established professionals.

About the Raw Talent Submission Route

Everyone can submit a script via our dedicated online application form. All we ask is that the script be in the English language with industry standard formatting. Length should be between 80 to 120 pages.

Though we prefer original concepts we will also consider adaptations providing all rights have been pre-cleared.

Submission of a script implies that all available rights can be transferred to Raindance Raw Talent unencumbered.

For standard submissions there is a £15/€18 fee. This should be paid in advance and is non-refundable so please ensure you are happy with your submission before pushing the send button.

If you’d like to fast track your submission the fee is £75/€90. This will not only reduce turnaround time of the submission but we will also provide a copy of the evaluation conducted on your script.

Where possible we will endeavour to explain our judgement to allow you to improve your project but unfortunately we cannot be drawn into dialogue.

Your submission is confidential. The Raw Talent team will not forward your information or script to anyone outside our  own team.

Fees should be paid via Pay Pal to rawtalent@raindance.co.uk

About the Raw Talent Production Approach

Budgets can range from £50,000 to £500,000 (including deferments).

Key crew members and leading actors will get a token cash fee and defer additional fees. Support crew members and day players will get a daily cash fee.

Raindance Raw Talent will only produce films made by a mix of experienced filmmakers and newcomers. We have designated 6 key functions: director, director of photography, production sound-engineer, art-director, editor, composer. A minimum of 3 of the previous have to be experienced professionals and either the director, or dop has to always be one of those.

Raindance Raw Talent will be the responsible producer. However other, outside, producers are welcome to become co-producers. Every production will employ an independent line-producer.

About the Raw Talent Funding

Funding of the cash budget will be undertaken by Raindance Raw Talent from a variety of finance sources.

Raindance Raw Talent expects the principal “driving force” – be it the writer, director, leading actor or any (other) combination, to provide 20% of the cash budget before start of principal photography.

Raindance Raw Talent will be open to financiers using tax shelter incentives. We will sparsely use film-subsidies as they tend to be aligned to unavoidable red tape, content approval and time delays.

About Raw Talent Films’ After Life

 Profits are shared with the key creators for a total of five years following a first public screening.

All films made receive a screening during the next upcoming Raindance Film Festival in London and Raw Talent has a ‘first look’ understanding with numerous sales agents and companies in Europe that will be utilised from an early stage of development.

Now let’s make some great movies!

Submit Your Application Here

http://www.raindance.org/rawtalent/about-raw-talent/

Bois Caiman

Bois Caïman (Haitian Creole: Bwa Kayiman), 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of road RN 1, is the place where Vodou rites were performed under a tree at the beginning of the slave revolution. For decades, maroons had been terrorizing slaveholders on the northern plains by poisoning their food and water. Makandal is the legendary (and perhaps historical) figure associated with the growing resistance movement. By the 1750s, he had organized the maroons - as well as many people enslaved on plantations - into a secret army. Makandal was murdered (or disappeared) in 1758, but the resistance movement grew. At Bwa Kayiman, a maroon leader named Dutty Boukman held the first mass antislavery meeting secretly on August 14, 1791. At this meeting, a Vodou ceremony was performed, and all those present swore to die rather than to endure the continuation of slavery on the island. Following the ritual led by Boukman and a mambo named Cécile Fatiman, the insurrection started on the night of August 22–23, 1791. Boukman was killed in an ambush soon after the revolution began. Jean-François was the next leader to follow Dutty Boukman in the uprising of the slaves, the Haitian equivalent of the storming of the Bastille in the French Revolution. Slaves burned the plantations and cane fields and massacred French colonists across the northern plains. Eventually the revolution led to the independence of Haiti. The site of Dutty Boukman's ceremony is marked by a ficus tree. Adjoining it is a colonial well, which is credited with mystic powers.

Morne Rouge[edit]

Morne Rouge is 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the south of Cap. It is the site of the sugar plantation known as "Habitation Le Normand de Mezy", known for several slaves who led the rebellion against the French.^[8]

sugar notes

"This doesn't say what we really feel. For our declaration of independence we should have the skin of a blanc for parchment, his skull for inkwell, his blood for ink, and a bayonet for pen!"

Boisrond-Tonnerrer

Dessaline was much taken by the fact that the Poles tended to treat the Haitians better than other Europeans and to have less regard for the French. The Poles did not want to be in Saint Domingue and, in general, opposed the war, however, they did follow their own orders and fought for the French cause. At the same time they expressed strong criticism for the French, had great sympathy for the Taino/Arawak Indians whom the Spanish had eliminated, and were not at all as racist as the French.
With Dessaline's prodding, the Haitians tended to treat the Poles much better when they captured them. On one Pole's account this meant that they killed them straight off rather than torturing them as they did the French!

In sum there were about 5200 Poles sent to Saint Domingue by Napoleon. More than 4000 died, primarily of yellow fever. Some returned to France, some were subsumed into the British Colonial Army, and only about 400 remained in Haiti. Even then, 160 of those received permission from Dessalines in 1806 to return to France, and were even sent there at Haiti's expense. Thus, only about 240 Poles actually became and remained Haitian citizens.

Dessalines first decided to get rid of the French who were in Haiti. Early in 1804, his first year of rule, he had the French killed, sparing only a few doctors, priests and essential exporters. It is generally thought that around 20,000 French were slaughtered, and it was a brutal and harsh extermination. This had important consequences for Haiti, giving her critics something concrete to latch onto and helping to build the picture of a savage nation incapable of being part of the world community.

Jean-Jacques Dessalines became JACQUES I, EMPEROR. Unlike Henry Christophe a few years later, he did not create any other nobles, claiming that he alone was noble.
Perhaps that spirit characterizes much that went wrong with Dessalines. He was stern, even cruel, demanded unflinching obedience and ruled with an iron hand. This was not what most of the Haitian people thought that had fought a war of independence for, and discontent was widespread.

Haiti was now plunged into a chaotic period of political maneuvering and civil war that divided Haiti into two nations under two different leaders for the next 12 years. Actually, at one time there were actually 4 Haitis, but for this story I'm just concentrate on the two main Haitis.
Two of his most famous monuments were his own palace of Sans Souci in the village of Milot and the Caribbean's most famous monument, the huge citadelle on the mountain top of La Ferriere. The Citadelle had an ostensible military purpose. Like Dessalines, King Henry I expected France to attempt to re-invade and retain Haiti as a colony. Since no one formally recognized Haiti as an independent nation, she was, to the world at large, a colony in rebellion. Henry's fears were not without solid foundation. His plan for the Citadelle was to have an impregnable fortress to which he could retire with a large army and from this fortress carry on a guerilla war. The strategy was a very good one, thought the Citadelle never had to be tested for that purpose.

real hot, in the shade.