Welcome to our world of Super 8 film!

The Super 8mm film format has undergone a creative renaissance in the last five years due to the digital revolution and the re-discovery of small film by users the world over.

Stimulate your senses with three days of truly innovative and inspiring international shorts on the big screen. Our competition and panorama programmes will show the best films originated on the brilliant Super 8 format.

For our second festival, we're planning an Hungarian Super 8 retrospective and we hope to welcome even more filmmakers than last year. Come down to the festival and meet the people who made the films.

2008 Winners

Jury Prize for best film: "Shikashika" by Steve Hyde
Special Jury Prize: "The Two brothers" from "8 moments in Barcelona as seen by Johan Kramer"
Development Prize: "Dash Dot" by Ian Helliwell
The Best UK Film and Audience Prize: "The Flasher" by Magnus Irvin

In addition, two films received special mentions from the Jury, "Lunch" by Miklos Solyom and "Burnt Out and Inarticulate" by Ian Weake.

Thank you for all the filmmakers for submitting their work and see you next year for the 3rd Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival!

Thursday 24th of April

Competition Programme 1: St-Paul Church, Hills Road, Cambridge - 8 pm

Friday 25th of April

Competition Programme 2: University Social club, Mill Lane, Cambridge - 7 pm
Panorama Programme: University Social club, Mill Lane, Cambridge - 9 pm

Saturday 26th of April

Industry Panel: "Super 8 in the 21st century", Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge - 12 pm
Competition Programme 3: University Social club, Mill Lane, Cambridge - 3 pm
Hungarian Retrospective: University Social club, Mill Lane, Cambridge - 5 pm
Competition Programme 4: University Social club, Mill Lane, Cambridge - 7 pm
Award ceremony and Super 8 live performance:
by the Szeged Super 8 group - University Social club, Mill Lane, Cambridge - 9 pm

Tickets can be bought on the door for all events, or advanced tickets and festival passes can also be bought in advance from our Tickets & Passes page.

Dowload the programme in booklet (6.4MB) or single sheet (7.1MB) .pdf format now!

Festival poster, venues and map

Click here for a copy of the Festival poster and here for a copy of the venue map for you to print off and keep!

So armed with everything you need to know, we welcome you to Cambridge Super 8!

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