Welcome to Cambridge Film Festival

The 28th Cambridge Film Festival is now looking for enthusiastic people with a keen interest in cinema to join its team and help organise one of the UK’s most popular, prestigious and well-respected film festivals!

For full details, go to our Volunteer page.

Arts Council England, East and BBC East are working together to offer practicing artists in our region the unique opportunity to expand their creative vision by making a short film to be shown on BBC Look East.

Up to five artists will receive support from Arts Council England, East and the expertise of BBC staff to produce a two minute film ’short’ which will be shown on BBC Look East in May 2008.

They want to provide practising artists with the opportunity to create films which are original, creative, thought-provoking and inspiring (by practising artist, they mean someone who engages with their chosen art form on a regular basis).

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Want to see your film on the big screen as part of the 28th Cambridge Film Festival? We are now accepting entries and are eagerly awaiting all your submissions of shorts, documentaries and features to compete for a coveted place in this year’s Festival. You can either submit your film directly to us now (download more information here and the submission form here) or please submit online with Withoutabox (our preferred method), where entries are now open. Click on the logo below to access our submissions at Withoutabox.  Entry is free for film-makers based in the Eastern region, so don’t delay - send us your film now!

Following her appearance in wordfest, Cambridge Film Trust is delighted to welcome local author Nicola Upson to present this special screening at the Arts Picturehouse.

27 April 2.30pm
Young and Innocent (U)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick de Marney, Edward Rigby. UK 1937. 80mins
As well as being an important film in his own career, Hitchcock’s Young and Innocent is notable for bringing to the screen A Shilling for Candles - the first novel to appear under the name Josephine Tey. With books including The Franchise Affair and The Daughter of Time, Tey became one of the most original and innovative crime writers of the 1940s and early 1950s - as influential in her medium as Hitchcock was in his. Now, she has been brought to life in a new detective novel, An Expert in Murder, and its author, Nicola Upson, will introduce the film and, after the screening, discuss Tey and her work with BBC Radio Cambridgeshire’s Mandy Morton.

Many thanks to all of you who contacted us to tell us what you thought about the proposed changes. We are delighted to announce that the 28th Cambridge Film Festival will take place between 18-28 September 2008 and look forward to seeing you there! Keep an eye on our website or join our email list now to hear all the latest news about our exciting and ambitious new plans!