# British Independent Film Award – The Raindance Maverick Award

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.
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
### 2000s

| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
| 2004 (7th) | The Barn | Ruaridh Webster, Jake Broder, Adam Long |
| 2004 (7th) | Blinded | Eleanor Yule, Oscar van Heek |
| 2004 (7th) | Chicken Tikka Masala | Harmage Singh Kalirai, Rony Ghosh, Roopesh Parekh, Sanjay Tandon |
| 2005 (8th) | Evil Aliens | Jake West |
| 2005 (8th) | Billy Childish Is Dead | Graham Bendel |
| 2005 (8th) | Sam Jackson's Secret Video Diary | Guy Rowland |
| 2006 (9th) | Ballad of AJ Weberman | James Bluemel, Oliver Ralfe |
| 2006 (9th) | London to Brighton | Paul Andrew Williams, Alastair Clark, Rachel Robey, Ken Marshall |
| 2006 (9th) | Scenes of a Sexual Nature | Ed Blum, Aschlin Ditta, Suran Goonatilake, Vadim Jean, Amanda Wilkie |
| 2007 (10th) | The Inheritance | Charles-Henri Belleville, Tim Barrow, David Boaretto |
| 2007 (10th) | Exhibit A | Dom Rotheroe, Darren Bender |
| 2007 (10th) | Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead | Stuart Urban, Frances Cook, Emily Harris, Alan Jay, Mark Pegg |
| 2008 (11th) | Zebra Crossings | Sam Holland |
| 2008 (11th) | Clubbed | Neil Thompson, Geoff Thompson, Martin Carr |
| 2008 (11th) | Flick | David Howard, Rik Hall |
| 2008 (11th) | One Day Removals | Mark Stirton |
| 2009 (12th) | Down Terrace | Ben Wheatley, Robin Hill, Andrew Starke |
| 2009 (12th) | Colin | Marc Price |
| 2009 (12th) | The Disappearance of Alice Creed | J Blakeson, Adrian Sturges |
| 2009 (12th) | Exam | Stuart Hazeldine, Simon Garrity, Gareth Unwin |
| 2009 (12th) | They Call It Acid | Gordon Mason |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
| 2010 (13th) | Son of Babylon | Mohamed Al-Daradji, Mithal Ghazi, Jennifer Norridge, Isabelle Stead, Atia Al-Daradji |
| 2010 (13th) | Brilliant Love | Ashley Horner, Sean Conway |
| 2010 (13th) | Jackboots on Whitehall | The McHenry Brothers, Patrick Scoffin, Karl Richards, Frank Mannion |
| 2010 (13th) | Legacy | Thomas Ikimi, Amrit Walia, Idris Elba, Jessica Levick, Arabella Page Croft, Kieran Parker |
| 2010 (13th) | Treacle Jr. | Jamie Thraves, Rob Small |
| 2011 (14th) | Leaving Baghdad | Koutaiba Al-Janabi |
| 2011 (14th) | Acts of Godfrey | Johnny Daukes |
| 2011 (14th) | Black Pond | Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe, Sarah Brocklehurst |
| 2011 (14th) | Hollow | Michael Axelgaard, Matthew Holt |
| 2011 (14th) | A Thousand Kisses Deep | Dana Lustig, Alex Kustanovich, Vadim Moldovan |
| 2012 (15th) | Strings | Rob Savage, Nathan Craig |
| 2012 (15th) | Love Tomorrow | Christopher Payne |
| 2012 (15th) | Frank | Richard Heslop |
| 2012 (15th) | Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet | Jesse Vile |
| 2012 (15th) | City Slacker | James Larkin, Michael Müller |
| 2013 (16th) | The Machine | Caradog W. James, John Giwa-Amu |
| 2013 (16th) | Everyone's Going to Die | Jones, Kelly Broad |
| 2013 (16th) | The Patrol | Tom Petch, Tom Stuart, Karim Debbagh |
| 2013 (16th) | Sleeping Dogs | Floris Ramaekers, Simon Clark |
| 2013 (16th) | Titus | Charlie Cattrall, Nico Mensinga |
| 2014 (17th) | Luna | Dave McKean, Allen Spiegel |
| 2014 (17th) | Film: The Movie | Raffaello Degruttola |
| 2014 (17th) | Gregor | Mickey Down, Konrad Kay |
| 2014 (17th) | Keeping Rosy | Steve Reeves, Mike Oughton |
| 2014 (17th) | The Beat Beneath My Feet | John Williams, Michael Müller |
| 2015 (18th) | Orion: The Man Who Would Be King | Jeanie Finlay |
| 2015 (18th) | Aaaaaaaah! | Steve Oram, Andrew Starke |
| 2015 (18th) | Burn Burn Burn | Chanya Button, Charlie Covell, Daniel-Konrad Cooper, Tim Phillips |
| 2015 (18th) | The Return | Steven F. Zambo, Jeffrey Schallert |
| 2015 (18th) | Winter | Heidi Greensmith |
| 2016 (19th) | The Greasy Strangler | Jim Hosking, Toby Harvard, Daniel Noah, Andrew Starke, Ant Timpson, Josh C. Waller, Elijah Wood |
| 2016 (19th) | Black Mountain Poets | Jamie Adams, Jon Rennie |
| 2016 (19th) | The Darkest Universe | Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe, Tiani Ghosh, Jo-Jo Elison |
| 2016 (19th) | The Ghoul | Gareth Tunley, Jack Healy Guttmann, Tom Meeten |
| 2016 (19th) | Gozo | Miranda Bowen, Steven Sheil |
| 2017 (20th) | In Another Life | Philippe de Pierpont, Julie Frères, Hanne Phlypo, Rebecca Houzel, Quentin Jacques |
| 2017 (20th) | Even When I Fall | Sky Neal, Kate McLarnon, Elhum Shakerifar |
| 2017 (20th) | Halfway | Ben Caird, Jonny Paterson |
| 2017 (20th) | Isolani | R. Paul Wilson |
| 2017 (20th) | My Pure Land | Sarmad Masud, Bill Kenwright |
| 2018 (21st) | Voyageuse | May Miles Thomas |
| 2018 (21st) | The Dig | Simon Stone, Moira Buffini, Gabrielle Tana, Ellie Wood, Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Murray Ferguson |
| 2018 (21st) | Irene's Ghost | Iain Cunningham, David Arthur |
| 2018 (21st) | A Moment in the Reeds | Mikko Mäkelä, James Watson, Jarno Pimperi |
| 2018 (21st) | Super November | Douglas King, Josie Long |
| 2019 (22nd) | Children of the Snow Land | Zara Balfour, Marcus Stephenson, Mark Hakansson |
| 2019 (22nd) | A Bump Along the Way | Shelly Love |
| 2019 (22nd) | Here for Life | Adrian Jackson & Andrea Luka Zimmerman, James Lingwood, Michael Morris, Cressida Day Cunningham, Rebecca Mark-Lawson, David Arthur, Ellie Land |
| 2019 (22nd) | Muscle | Gerard Johnson, Matthew James Wilkinson, Richard Wylie, Ed Barratt |
| 2019 (22nd) | The Street | Zed Nelson |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
| 2020 (23rd) | Perfect 10 | Eva Riley, Jacob Thomas, Bertrand Faivre, Valentina Brazzini |
| 2020 (23rd) | Justine | Jamie Patterson, Jeff Murphy, Jason Rush, Sarah Drew, Julius Beltrame |
| 2020 (23rd) | Looted | Rene Van Pannevis, Kefi Chadwick, Jennifer Eriksson, Jessie Magnum |
| 2020 (23rd) | One Man and His Shoes | Yemi Bamiro, Will Thorne |
| 2020 (23rd) | Rose: A Love Story | Jennifer Sheridan, April Kelley, Sara Huxley, Matt Stokoe, Rob Taylor, Sophie Rundle |
| 2021 (24th) | Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché | Paul Sng, Celeste Bell, Zoë Howe, Rebecca Mark-Lawson, Matthew Silverman, Daria Mitsche |
| 2021 (24th) | Bank Job | Daniel Edelsty, Hilary Powell, Christopher Hird |
| 2021 (24th) | The Bike Thief | Matt Chambers, PK Fellowes, Sophia Gibber, Lene Bausager |
| 2021 (24th) | I Am Belmaya | Sue Carpenter, Christopher Hird |
| 2021 (24th) | Rebel Dykes | Harri Shanahan, Sian A. Williams, Siobhan Fahey |
| 2022 (25th) | Winners | Hassan Nazer, Nadira Murray, Paul Welsh |
| 2022 (25th) | Electric Malady | Marie Lidén, Aimara Reques |
| 2022 (25th) | Fadia's Tree | Sarah Beddington, Susan Simnett |
| 2022 (25th) | Off the Rails | Peter Day, Grant Keir, Rob Alexander |
| 2022 (25th) | Rebellion | Elena Sánchez Bellot, Maia Kenworthy, Kat Mansoor |
| 2023 (26th) | If the Streets Were on Fire | Alice Russell, Gannesh Rajah |
| 2023 (26th) | Is There Anybody Out There? | Ella Glendining, Janine Marmot |
| 2023 (26th) | Name Me Lawand | Edward Lovelace |
| 2023 (26th) | Raging Grace | Paris Zarcilla, Chi Thai |
| 2023 (26th) | Red Herring | Kit Vincent, Ed Owles |
| 2024 (27th) | The Ceremony | Jack King, Hollie Bryan, Lucy Meer |
| 2024 (27th) | Grand Theft Hamlet | Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane, Julia Ton, Rebecca Wolff |
| 2024 (27th) | Restless | Jed Hart, Benedict Turnbull |
| 2024 (27th) | Satu: The Year of the Rabbit | Joshua Trigg |
| 2024 (27th) | Witches | Elizabeth Sankey, Jeremy Warmsley, Chiara Ventura, Manon Ardisson |