In 2009, the third Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival was hailed a resounding success with more than 88 short films shown in four days! More than 20 filmmakers from all around the world joined the festival for a great days of networking and film.
The festival screenings run in partnership with Murray Edwards college and Anglia Ruskin University will take place from the 22nd of April 2010 to the 1st of May 2010 in Cambridge (UK).
The 2010 festival will be showcasing a mix of animation, comedies, dramas and experimental film. With two weeks of film screenings and workshops, this year event is set to be even bigger and even better and for the first time, all the screenings will be free of charge !
With plenty international, European and UK Premieres, the competition and panorama programmes showed the best films originated on the brilliant Super 8 format. Each programme contains between ten and fifteen short films from all around the world !
For those who don’t know, Super 8 is a 8mm cartridge based film system, introduced by Kodak in 1965. The cartridges load straight into the camera, making it an easy to use ‘home movie’ format. Although technology has advanced greatly since the introduction of Super 8, many filmmakers still like to use the medium today for the over saturated colors that make it famous.
UK Director Edgar Wright, of Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the dead and Spaced fame is known to be a big fan of Super 8. Making many shorts in his teenage years, he often still uses the medium. It would seem Super 8 has helped boost budding directors to stardom, with one of Tim Burton’s first film escapades being shot on super 8 when he was just 13 years old. Other well known directors have also dabbled in the medium, enjoying its vignettes and old-fashioned feel. Oliver Stone often uses Super 8 to give a different look to his films, notably in The Doors, Natural Born Killers and JFK.
There are many opportunities to network with our visiting film directors. This year, British filmmaker Ian Helliwell will introduce 19 of his short experimental films on Saturday the 24th of April. How to make a film without a camera and without a computer ! Ian Helliwell will introduce a range of techniques for making experimental Super 8 movies. No previous experience needed! This is an exclusive opportunity to learn from the best in a two-day filming workshop. With limited places, the workshop will take place daytimes on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd. Email workshop@cambridge-
This year film festival is proud to host the screening of the feature documentary "I for India". The film directed by Sandhya Suri is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera. Her film which received numerous awards for best documentary will be screened on Saturday the 1st of May as part of the memory programme.
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Thursday the 22nd of April
Afternoon : Workshop
8pm Competition 1 at Buckingham House ( Murray Edwards College)
Friday the 23rd of April
Morning and afternoon : Workshop
6:30pm Competition 2 at Buckingham House ( Murray Edwards College)
9:00pm Panorama 1 at Buckingham House ( Murray Edwards College)
Saturday the 24th of April
12am Industry meeting at Cos124 (Anglia Ruskin University)
1:30pm Competition 3 at Cos124 (Anglia Ruskin University)
4pm Competition 4 at Cos124 (Anglia Ruskin University)
6:30pm Ian helliwell retrospective at Cos124 (Anglia Ruskin University)
9pm Award ceremony at Cos124 (Anglia Ruskin University)
Wednesday the 28th of April
8pm Competition 1 at Rus203 (Anglia Ruskin University)
Thursday the 29th of April
8:15pm Competition 2 at Rus203 (Anglia Ruskin University)
Friday the 30th of April
8pm Panorama 2 at Buckingham House (Murray Edwards College)
Saturday the 1st of May
3pm Memory programme at Buckingham House ( Murray Edwards College)
7:30pm Best of the fests at Buckingham House ( Murray Edwards College)
