The Cambridge Strawberry Shorts Film Festival 2012

Strawberry Shorts 2012 event posterThe Cambridge Strawberry Shorts Film Festival lived up to every expectation.

A fantastic evening spent viewing superb short films in the best of venues. The audience were enthusiastic, the jury, entertaining and engaging, and the staff/crew/helpers, all volunteers, were as good as you get, working the door, selling programmes, stewarding and running the café. Thanks to each and every one.

All this made possible with the kind co-operation of the Cambridge Buddhist Centre in who’s charge the Festival Theatre now resides.

Of course non of this would have happened if were not for the film makers who submitted over 250 films. And to those we need to say the biggest thank you. We only managed to show 18 of those films and we are not saying that we showed the best 18. Of course they were good but the best? Such a subjective issue and one that we answer this way.

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The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival and the Arts Area of Strawberry Fair

The Cambridge Cinema Shorts Collective ran the Strawberry Shorts Film Festival from 2001 to 2009 as part of the Arts Area of Strawberry Fair.

Check out the gallery below and the arts and performance based mayhem of the Strawberry Shorts Film Festival’s own Outré Usherettes.

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Oxjam Cambridge Takeover mini short film festival

Saturday 22nd October: 2pm – 6pm

Oxjam Cambridge TakeoverCambridge Cinema Shorts in partnership with Oxjam presented a mini short film festival.

An afternoon of watching a great selection of short films from the extensive collection of Cambridge Cinema Shorts.

From the quirky horror of Where’s Mary to the wonderfully observed The Charcoal Burners these films are beautifully crafted examples of the art of short film making.

Screened in the comfort of The De Luca Restaurant, 83 Regent St, upstairs bar, the audience watch, comment, discuss and enjoy an afternoon of alternative entertainment.

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The Cambridge Strawberry Shorts Film Festival 2011

Event poster for The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival 2011 by Helen JudgeCambridge Cinema Shorts in partnership with Strawberry Fair were delighted to run The Cambridge Strawberry Shorts Film Festival 2011 on the evening of Friday 3 June.

The festival was held in the Cinema Marquee on Midsummer Common and had the honour of acting as the opening event for Strawberry Fair.

Check out the full running order, packed with the very best and latest short films from around the world.

The doors opened at 17:30 and by 18:30 when the screening started, the Cinema Marquee was packed.

The Cambridge Strawberry Shorts Film Festival is a fully competitive film festival with Best Local Film and Best Overall Film award categories. In each category we have an Audience Vote and Jury Vote, the winners receiving a converted La Fraise d’Or.

And this years La Fraise d’Or winners are . . .

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David Rimmer Retrospective @ The Portland Arms

event poster for David Rimmer RetrospectiveCambridge Cinema Shorts presented a retrospective of celebrated Canadian experimental short film maker David Rimmer.

Twice nominated for the Canadian Govenor General’s Award in media arts, Rimmer has produced over 40 films over 30 years, from experimental to documentary, to dance, to music, to portraits of artists

The evening was personally curated and hosted by David Rimmer who introduce and discuss a selection of his short films. Check out the video of Davids informal Q&A with the audience at the bottom of this page.

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The Best of the Best @ The Portland Arms

event poster for The Best of the BestCambridge Cinema Shorts presented from its archive a small selection of The Best of the Best on the evening of Thursday the 6th of January at The Portland Arms.

At The Best of the Best the audience watch Cyberbeat to find out why rubber protection is so important after the prom, The Advantage of the Hitman to find out . . . well . . . what the advantage of a hitman is and The Gynaecologist to witness the terrible vengeance of a gynaecologist scorned!

The Outré Usherettes were on hand helping and hindering the audience to their seats. Check out the the full running order that they enjoyed below.

An awesomely entertaining night was had by all at The Portland Arms. Don’t miss out on the next Cambridge Cinema Shorts event! Click the facebook Like button in the right hand column and keep upto date on Cambridge Cinema Shorts shenanigans.

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The Strawberry Shorts Film Marquee @ Fordham Fest

Fordham Fest logoThe Cambridge Cinema Shorts Collective was delighted to run the Strawberry Shorts Film Marquee at Fordham Fest 2010.

Over the 6th, 7th and 8th of August 2010, we screened the very best and latest short films from all over the world.

One hundred and seventy five short films packed into twelve, two hour long programmes. Four documentry programmes, two animation programmes, two foreign language programmes, two comedy & drama programmes and two very late night programmes of the beautiful & the weird (warning: not for the faint hearted).

These films will make you in turn, laugh, cry and shudder with horror. Films like The End, Hranice(Borders) and Where’s Mary.

If your in Cambridgeshire at the beginning of August and you love short film, then you’ve got to get on down to the three day short film binge in Strawberry Shorts Film Marquee @ Fordham Fest on the 6th, 7th and 8th of August.

Check out the running order below.

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Strawberry Shorts @ The Arts Picturehouse Cambridge

On the evening of Friday the 26th of February 2010, we screened eight short films about the much loved one day free festival Strawberry Fair. The first film from 1977, the last from 2007, a gap of almost 30 years between them.

Seven of the eight fantastic films we screened, are available to watch online below. Dont miss Strawberry Fayre from 1977 to find out how to defend yourself from a giant inflatable martian monster, how much praise costs and what a Can Can Girls wears under their skirts!

The programme was preceded with a Potted History of Strawberry Fair with Fair stalwart John Clements. He knows more than you ever want to know about Strawberry Fair and he shares it below, including the surprising origin of the fair.

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Cut It Short!

Cut It Short! was an superb short film benefit night for The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival 2010.

NOTE: the Strawberry Shorts Film Festival 2010 was cancelled because Strawberry Fair was cancelled that year.

Cut It Short! ran on Tuesday the 8th of December 2009 at The Boathouse and was packed with a selection of short films from the last few years of Best New Local Filmmaker competition of Strawberry Shorts Film Festival. It was also packed with the filmmakers whose films we screened.

Throughout the night we had Q&A sessions with the filmmakers in between the screening. They give a real practical insight into the filmmaking process. Check out the Q&A below Continue reading

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The Cambridge Strawberry Shorts Film Festival 2009

The Strawberry Fair Film Festival 2009 posterThe Cambridge Strawberry Fair Short Film Festival 2009 was part of the Arts Area of Strawberry Fair and ran on the afternoon and evening of Friday the 5th of June and from midday until 6pm on Saturday the 6th of June.

On the Friday the festival was in the Big Top Tent situated just next to the Arts Area and on the Saturday we were in the Film Tent situated in the Arts Area of Strawberry Fair itself.

On both Friday and Saturday the festival was absolutely free and we screened great short films from local and not so local filmmakers.

On the Friday evening we screened a competitive programme to find the Best Local Filmmaker with both a Jury and Audience Award. For the 2009 festival we were overwhelmed with superb short films, competition for the coveted La fraise d’Or was fierce and both the Audience and Jury winners were screened the next night (Saturday 6th June) as part of Future Shorts at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.

NOTE: In 2010 the film festival changed its name from The Strawberry Fair Film Festival to The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival. This was to mark the formation of a new film festival committee. Also Strawberry Fair was cancelled in 2010 and so the 2010 film festival never ran.

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