Archive for September, 2010

On Saturday 18 September CFF screened a specially-curated programme of short artists’ films about trains – TRAINS ON THE BRAIN! – for a family audience. Afterwards, their host Reza Ben Gajra led an hour-long animation workshop in which they learnt how to make a stop-motion animated film, using computer software to shoot card cut-outs one frame at a time – with the under 12s responsible for drawing the tracks, making the trains, and moving them little by little to create the movement. The fruit of the labour was The Big Train Crash!, to which Reza has now added titles, music and a lick of special effects for the climax. Watch the results here below!

The Big Train Crash! from Cambridge Film Festival on Vimeo.

A round up of the day’s events from the penultimate day of the 30th Cambridge Film Festival. Read the rest of this entry »

Ask recent college leaver Laurence Anderson where he was last Sunday and the answer may surprise you: “Sitting down behind a screen outside the Fitzwilliam museum”. Weeks earlier Anderson had been taking his A-levels and now he was working as a projectionist at an outdoor event of this year’s Festival. “I was in charge of one of them. It was good to have that responsibility”. Read the rest of this entry »

The desire to squirm in your seat, cry out, and tug at the sleeve of your neighbour to beg “when can we leave?” is not confined to audiences of EAT PRAY LOVE. For many children the cinema is a daunting and uncomfortable experience, even if they’re not watching the latest Hollywood tripe. Read the rest of this entry »

Issue ten of the Festival Daily,  supported by ARU, is available online now.

We unleash our inner child for an interview with Becky Innes, organiser of the first Cambridge Family Film Festival. Plus we talk to members of the Screen Team. With reviews of PROMISE & UNREST, THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS’ NEST and CAMBRIDGE IN 3D: THE LIFE OF A STATION.