About Us.
The Cambridgeshire Film Consortium is a partnership between Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge Film Festival, Long Road Sixth Form College and Parkside Community College. It is core-funded by Screen East.
The Consortium employs a full-time Film Education Offficer, Trish Sheil, to implement its aims which are:
- Encouraging an interest in film education linked to cinema screenings, production work and other activity
- Fostering film literacy and developing links between informal and formal education
- Ensuring cultural diversity in the programming of events and activities
- Researching published material relating to film education
- Consulting with Screen East, The Film Council and the British Film Insitute for the delivery of a regional film education strategy
- Contributing film education initiatives to the Cambridge Film Festival
Since its inception the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium has received funding from:
- Arts Council of England
- Heritage Lottery Fund
- UK Film Council First Light
- Further details on these funded projects can be found here.
