5^th Cambridge Super 8 International Film Festival
April 2011

Saturday will be our last and final screenings to conclude this year’s festival.
Starting from 3pm at Murray Edwards College, the Memory programme will immerge you in super 8 memory archives with Before War and I for India. It will be followed at 7.30pm by the Best of the fests programme screening this year and past years winners.

For this second round of Panorama, we are delighted that a couple of directors joined us for this screening. You will have the chance to meet Felope Cataldo (Monocelular) and Aaron Wesley Gibson (The Good Soldier).

The screening starts on Friday 30 April at 8pm at the Murray Edwards College, Buckingham House.

This is the last week of the festival and tonight (Thursday 29th April) is your last chance to see the competition’s programme 2.

Don’t miss the opportunity to see this year’s best UK film (Bridge Study, Naren Wilks) and Best Cinematography film (Corto, Dairo Cervantes).

The screening starts at 8.15pm, at the Anglia Ruskin University, lecture room Rus203.

So we’re pausing for breath after a successful first week of the 2010 Festival. Directors came from France and the US; prizes went to Colombia and Japan; and appreciative audiences enjoyed four competition programmes, a panorama showing and an eye-bending retrospective from Ian Helliwell with plenty of questions to answer. Traditional film projectors were also in evidence, to show the distinctive collage achieved by the workshop participants (another cutting-edge success) and in Mat Fleming’s brief but thrilling Super 8 Hypnosis Experiment that rounded off Saturday night.

A full list of prizewinners is already on this site, and we’ll have a further gallery of pics in due course. Much social chat has thrown up much to develop in future showings and festivals, particularly in the direction of performance and music collaborations. Showings resume on Wednesday at Anglia Ruskin University and will end on Saturday evening back at Buckingham house with a feature-length showing and a compilation from all our festivals so far.

A big thank-you goes to all our volunteers who guided, greeted, glued, brewed, taped, carried and (in one case) interpreted to keep all our viewers happy.

The first week of the festival has just finished and we are proud to announce this year’s winners:

• Jury Prize
  Bautista’s Fable, Rafael Martínez Moreno / 2009 / Colombia
• Audience Prize
  The ghost tram of Marseilles, Lionel Laget / 2009 / France
• Development Prize
  Photophobia, Paulo Abreu / 2009 / Portugal
• Best UK Film
  Bridge Study. Naren Wilks / 2009 / United Kingdom
• Best cinematography
  Corto, Dairo Cervantes / 2009 / Colombia
• Best sound
  Area of no sound, Mie Kurihara / 2006 / Japan

The jury has also decerned a special mention to:

• Move Your Body (A Coffee Nightmare)
  Lars Harald Gathe / 2009 / United Kingdom
• Le Grand Déballage
  Viktor Kolbitr / 2009 / France

Don’t forget, the festival is still on next week!

The festival is opening today with a first series of films in the competition. A few directors are joining us for a question and answer session.

After the screening don’t miss our festival performance. Robb Appleton will improvise freely on some Super 8 footage.

If you haven’t seen it, check the programme. Tonight session starts at 8pm at Murray Edwards College, Buckingham House.

See you there!