Cambridge Film Festival

Cambridge Film Festival

The Cambridge Film Festival is one of the biggestFact|date=June 2007 film festivals in the UK. Though it has historically taken place annually in early July in Cambridge, the 2008 festival will be held between the 18th and 28th of September.

Established in 1977 and re-launched in 2001, the Cambridge Film Festival is renowned for showing an international selection of films that have debuted at category ‘A’ film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival, alongside a broad range of specialist interest sidebars. The Festival is also notable for its accessibility – all films are open to the public to watch.

Typically in recent years the sidebars have included an older archive retrospective and a more recent independent section. For example in 2005 the Festival showed a retrospective of the works of Soviet documentary maker Dziga Vertov alongside a season of a Studio Ghibli films.

The Festival takes place in Cambridge’s three-screened Arts Picturehouse, a local arts cinema run by City Screen. Since 2005 the Festival has expanded showing films at the nearby Cambridge Cineworld multiplex and arts venue The Junction. The festival also has touring events across the Eastern region of England including Norwich, Ipswich and Ely. Notably in 2006 the Festival held an outdoors screening of A Cock and Bull Story at Felbrigg Hall, one of that film’s shooting locations.

In 2006 the Cambridge Film Trust was launched, a new charity aiming to support and promote the film festival and film culture in Cambridge.

External links

Official sites

* [http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/ Official Site]
* [http://cff.libsyn.com/ Official Podcast]

Other sites

* [http://www.itvlocal.com/anglia/allangles/?player=ANG_AllAngles_15&void=234810 Cambridge Film Festival 2008 video preview with ITV Anglia]
* [http://www.ukhotmovies.com/film-festivals/cambridge-film-festival/information.html Cambridge Film Festival profile and history]
* [http://www.sneersnipe.co.uk/Bias/CFF2006_Review.htm Review of the 2006 Festival]
* [http://www.nofear.org/Archives/film/cambridge_film_festival_2006/ Alternative Festival Podcast at nofear.org]
* [http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/site/cinemas/Cambridge/local.htm Cambridge Arts Picturehouse Website]
* [http://www.catchesides.co.uk/galleries/gallery.php?shootID=354 Photographs of the 2007 Cambridge Film Festival]


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