War Horse (12a)

Director: Steven Spielberg. Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Davis Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Marsan, Peter Mullan.
USA/India 2011. 146 mins.

Based on Michael Morpurgo’s book, WAR HORSE follows the remarkable friendship between a wild steed, Joey, and the young man, Albert who trains him. Joey is sold to the British Cavalry and shipped to the frontline during the First World War. Albert then sets off on a perilous mission to bring him home.

BOOKINGS: Film Education 020 7292 736

Writing a Screenplay

An Introduction for Students

This presentation, led by EON screenwriter Rick Harvey, will explore writing a narrative for the screen, key components of a screenplay, such as THEME, CHARACTER, STORY / PLOT, STRUCTURE / FORM and DIALOGUE, and how to generate ideas and develop them from PREMISE through to FINAL DRAFT. Participants will also be encouraged to generate and test their ideas for short screenplays / sequences.

Cost: £4.00 (accompanying teachers free)

BOOKINGS: 01223 579127 trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk

Into Film 1:

An Introduction to

Understanding Film

Cinema Paradiso, The Lodger, Sunrise, Psycho, The Maltese Falcon, Billy Elliot, I Know Where I’m Going, Goodfellas, The Red Shoes.

Start 2012 with this ever-popular, relaxed and informative course on exploring how to read film as a distinct contemporary art form. Watch a range of film clips to explore the history of silent and sound cinema, film editing patterns, construction of film narrative, avant-garde practices and the adaptation of literature to screen. Watch full-length films and participate in post-screening discussions.

"I started to look at films in a completely different way. Not just... enjoying the story, but noticing how it is all put together..."
Comment from previous courses

Cost: £95; Members £90; Concs £75 (includes two cinema screenings and a comprehensive study pack).

BOOKINGS: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk

How To Write An Industry-Standard

Feature Screenplay

This new course led by professional screenwriter Rick Harvey is for beginners with no experience of screenwriting, or scriptwriters who would like inspiration on how to develop unshaped material. With sessions on theme, genre, character, form, plot and story, the course will focus on the tools of the trade and basic structural principles. With recent UK fi lms such as AN EDUCATION, THE KING’S SPEECH and CONTROL to illustrate good practice, a free screening at the cinema, teaching, discussions and practical exercises, participants will be encouraged to produce a 6-10 page treatment for workshopping at the end of the course.

"Very practical and encouraging, well-structured, teacher knowledgable about the business, a great starting point"
Workshop Feedback Word Fest 2011

Tutor: Rick Harvey, screenwriter for EON Studios (Bond films) and part-time lecturer in screenwriting, Anglia Ruskin University.
Cost: £120; Members £115; Conc. £100 (includes a cinema screening and a comprehensive study pack).

BOOKINGS: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk

Holocaust Memorial

Day 2012:

Stand Up, Speak Out

Defiance (15)

Director: Edward Zwick. Starring: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell.
USA 2008. 137 mins.

Tulvia Bielski (Craig) and his Jewish brothers escape into the Polish forests to fl ee the Nazis. Joined by Russian resistance fighters, they take refugees under their protection and leadership. But their struggles raise important questions about the price paid for vengeance and resistance.

Introduction and discussion with Dr Sean Lang (Anglia Ruskin University).
Cost: £1.00 (accompanying teachers free).
A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium event in association with Keystage Company and Cambridge City Council’s Holocaust Memorial Day Steering Committee.

BOOKINGS: 01223 579127 / trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk

International Film Styles:

Soviet Cinema Of The 1920's

With presentation on the Soviet Film School Movement.
Speaker: Phil Lloyd, Hunchinbrooke School.

Director: Dziga Vertov. Starring: Mikhail Kaufman. Soviet Union. 1928. 68 mins
Vertov’s feature film presents a montage of urban life in Odessa and other Soviet cities. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life.

Suitable for A/AS/Undergraduate Film/Media Studies.
Cost £3.50 Accompanying teachers free.

Funky Flamingo:

National Disability

Film Awards 2011

Inspire’s Funky Flamingo TV is the first internet TV channel presenting work solely by disabled people. Join us for the fourth annual National Youth Disability Film Awards 2011. Films have been submitted from all over the country. Categories include drama, comedy, animation, documentary and video art! Films must be at least one minute long, preferably no longer than 5 minutes.

To submit your film or enquire about the awards, email: funky@inspire.co.uk. To watch previous winners and find out more, go to www.funkyflamingo.co.uk.

British Horror Morning

The presentations will explore textual and contextual discussions concerning British horror films including classic and contemporary fims and the relationship between the two periods. Clips will include early ‘Polite Horrors’ such as Ealing Studio’s Dead of Night, Hammer Films during the 50’s/60’s, the groundbreaking The Quatermass Xperiment, controversial releases such as The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula, The Wicker Man and Don’t Look Now. Students will be encouraged to challenge preconceptions about the films and enter into debate on generic categorization.

Speakers: Horror Film Academic, Darren Elliott-Smith (University of Hertfordshire) and Tanya Jones, Long Road Sixth Form College

The Wicker Man (15)

Director: Robin Hardy. Writer: Anthony Shaffer (screenplay).
Starring: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento. UK,1973. 88 mins.

A police sergeant is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

Suitable for A/AS/Undergraduate Film/Media Studies. Cost £3.50 Accompanying teachers free.

Theres No Place Like Home!

Join us for a screening of archive films showing the way houses and homes have changed from the end of the Victorian era slums, to Homes Fit for Heroes, Garden Cities of the 1920’s and housing developments from the 1950’s onwards. Including:

Housing Problems

Directors: Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton. UK 1935. 13 mins.

A ground-breaking documentary at its time, inhabitants of London slums in the 1930s voice their problems, experiences and hopes for new housing developments.

Tickets: £4.60; Senior Citizens: £3.60 (includes tea/coffee with each ticket).

A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium event presented in association with the British Film Institute, The East Anglian Film Archive, The Arts Picturehouseand Cambridge City Council.

The Red Shoes:

A Case Study Of A British Film

& Exploring Film Form

For A/AS Film Studies

We construct meaning in films through our reading of micro and macro features e.g with a close analytical and critical approach set within socio-historical contexts. This presentation will explore The Red Shoes, and Michael Powell’s editing experiment with the ballet as a composed film, within the genre of melodrama, which draws on silent film practices.

The narrative levels of Hans Christian Andersen folk tale will be explored through the representation of women in the film, within the socio-historical cultural context of the Second World War when the British Film Industry thrived, when audiences increased as a result of women’s mobilisation, and producers looked ambitiously across the Atlantic for US exhibition opportunities.

The Red Shoes (U)

Director and Producer: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Starring: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Leonide Massine.
UK 1948. 133 mins.

A young ballet dancer is torn between marriage and ambition in this Powell and Pressburger extravagant and spectacular Technicolour film.

Speaker: Trish Sheil, Film Education Officer for the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium: Publication: “The Red Shoes, ”Fifty Key British Films. Suitable for A/AS/Undergraduate Film/Media Studies
Cost: £3.50 Accompanying teachers free.

Animation Workshop

"Rock'n'animate"!

Make a wild, rocking stop-motion, clay animation! Bring your own rock star to life! Would you like to find out how to make and animate a clay puppet, learn basic rules of animation? Dream about composing your own music? Do you want to show your finished movie to your friends? If the answer is yes, then join our workshop.

Tutor: Monika Umba. Cost: £30.00.

Educating The Nation:

Memories Of School

What do you remember of your school days? Girls and boys subjects, school dinners, homework, playground games; join us for a screening of archive films on going to school in the Twentieth Century, to include the famous SUMMER HILL SCHOOL in Suffolk, MILTON ROAD JUNIOR SCHOOL Cambridge and Basil Wright’s documentary on the state education CHILDREN AT SCHOOL, 1937

Tickets: £4.60; Senior Citizens: £3.60 (includes tea/coffee with each ticket).
A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium event presented in association with the British Film Institute, The East Anglian Film Archive, The Arts Picturehouseand Cambridge City Council.

Swingin' Britain

Illustrated with film clips exploring the cinematic language and cultural context of IF.... and British films of the sixties.
Speakers: Stephanie Muir, WJEC Examiner and Head of Film Studies at Richmond Upon Thames College:
Publication: British Sixties Culture, Politics and the Sexual Revolution Phil Lloyd, Hinchinbrooke School

If.... (15)

Director: Lindsay Anderson. Writer: David Sherwin. Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Arthur Lowe, Anthony Nicholls.
UK. 1968. 107 mins.

Surreal, and employing all sorts of camera and production techniques, this is an effective tale of 1960’s dissatisfaction and revolution as British public school boys rebel against the oppressive authority. Suitable for A/AS/Undergraduate Film/Media Studies.

Cost: £3.50 Accompanying teachers free

Contemporary British Film

Industry Event:

Producers & Audiences

Funding and producing an independent British film.

Sloane Uren (Art/Set Director on Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, Being John Malkovich) and Ant Neeley composer of Six Feet Under, will discuss their current production DIMENSIONS, a period sci-fi drama shot on location in Cambridgeshire.

Dimensions (Cert TBC)

Directors: Ant Neeley, Sloane U’Ren. Starring: Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Camilla Rutherford, Patrick Godfrey, Olivia Llewellyn, Sean Hart, Georgina Rich.
UK. 99 mins.

Stephen is a brilliant young boy who lives in Cambridge, in what appears to be the 1920s – but his world is turned upside down on meeting a professor who shows that time travel may be possible. As Stephen’s life unfolds, events lead him to dedicate himself to turning the Professor’s theories of time travel into reality.

Suitable for A/AS/Undergraduate Film/Media Studies. Cost: £3.50 Accompanying teachers free

To The Lighthouse (PG)

Director: Colin Gregg. Screenplay: Hugh Stoddart. Novel: Virginia Woolf. Starring: Rosemary Harris, Michael Gough, Kenneth Branagh, Suzanne Bertish.
BBC, UK 1983. 115 mins.

This exquisite adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s impressionistic novel explores the interpersonal dynamics of a family on holiday just prior to World War I

The Open Road (u)

Extract: Cornwall. Director: Claude Friese-Greene.
UK 1924. Colour. Silent with Music.
Enjoy views of Cornwall in this fascinating 1924 travelogue of life in inter-war Britain. Presentations from screenwriter Hugh Stoddart and Professor Laura Marcus.

British Film Industry Event:

How Sound Changes

The Image In Film

Cambridge School of Art: Wired Event
Larry Sider is Director of the School of Sound and was previously Head of Editing, Sound and Music at the National Film and Television School (UK). He is a film editor and sound designer and created soundtracks for the Quay Brothers’ THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES and Dave McKean’s MIRRORMASK. His presentation will explore how to think about creating a soundtrack, how soundtracks are composed of layers (atmospheres, dialogue, effects and music) and how to look at each in isolation.

Suitable for GCSE A/AS/Undergraduate Film/Media/Music students
Cost: students £3.50 Accompanying teachers free

Into Film 1:

An Introduction to

Understanding Film

Un Chien Andalou, La Jettée, Twelve Monkeys, Billy Elliot, The Maltese Falcon, Black Narcissus, Psycho, Sunsrise, A Colour Box.
Join us for this informal evening course using wide-ranging film examples to explore editing patterns, avant-garde practices, narrative techniques, and adaptation of literature into film. Watch films and participate in relaxed post-screening discussions.

Tutor: Trish Sheil. Cost: £95; Members £90; Concs. £75 (includes 2x cinema screenings and a comprehensive study pack)

Readers Workshop:

Writing The Woman:

Virginia Wolf & Arnold Bennett

A critical look at the fictional techniques of Virginia Woolf and Arnold Bennett, highlighting the ways in which Woolf’s Clarissa Dalloway and Bennett’s Anna Tellwright are written.

Tutor: Professor Jeff Wallace, Department of English, Film and Media Studies, Anglia Ruskin University.
Venue: Cambridge Central Library. Cost: £12; Concs £10

Remembering Our Past

Through Home Movies

& Archive Film

To mark the Melvyn Bragg BBC Two Reel History season in September on British life in the Twentieth Century, and International Home Movie day, join us for a screening of a family film celebrating the 1977 Queen’s Silver Jubilee in Shepreth, a personal film record of Cambridge University life and home movies showing East Anglians having fun in their leisure time.

Add your own memories, inspired by the films, to the Cambridgeshire Community Archives Network, who will be attending www.ccan.co.uk

A CFC event presented in association with the BBC, British Film Institute, Norwich HEART Digital Heritage Project, The East Anglian Film Archive, The Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge Super Group and Cambridge City Council. Home Movie Day at Cambridge Central Library on Sat 15 Oct www.homemovieday.com

Tickets: £4.60; Senior Citizens: £3.60 (includes tea/coffee with each ticket).
A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium event presented in association with the British Film Institute, The East Anglian Film Archive, The Arts Picturehouseand Cambridge City Council.

National Schools Filmweek

Little White Lies (15)

Attack The Block (15)

Biutiful (15)

The Tempest (PG)

Exit Through The Gift Shop (15)

Documentary:

Eleanor's Secret (U)

The Secrete of Kells (PG)

Kirikou And The Wild Beasts (U)

Short Cuts:

Filmmaking Club For

10-13 Year Olds

Learn about planning, camera techniques, interviewing and presenting to camera, shooting, editing and more. Then join our filmmaking team to use these skills on location and in editing workshops to complete your film. Watch your film at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.

Tutor: Ryd Cook, Filmmaker. Cost: £75.00

Women In Love (15)

Director: Ken Russell. Screenplay: Larry Kramer. Novel. D.H.Lawrence. Starring: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson.
UK 1969. 131 mins.

Ken Russell’s controversial adaptation follows Gudrun (Glenda Jackson), a 1920’s artist pursuing a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich (Oliver Reed), a Midlands industrialist. Their love is contrasted with Gudrun’ sister Ursula (Jennie Linden) and Rupert Birkin (Alan Bates), an alienated intellectual.

Introduction and post-screen discussion: Professor Jeff Wallace (Anglia Ruskin University)
Bookings: 1 week before the screening. Usual ticket prices apply

Jump Cuts:

Filmmaking Course for

14-18 Year Olds

Join Jump Cuts, a film club aimed at training you in documentary skills, sound techniques, planning, shooting and editing films. Watch your films at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.

Tutor: Ryd Cook, Filmmaker.
Cost: £75.00.
A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium project, financially supported by Cambridge Sustainable City.

Once in June, The Poet

Two Cameras

Love and Warcraft, Top Secret

An exciting and eclectic programme of short films by students from the Department of Communication, Film and Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University. Animation, documentary, short drama and experimental forms – the films are creative, exploratory, and independent in spirit, pushing ideas and working in ways that often challenge conventions.

Creative Writing Workshop:

From the Screen to the Lighthouse

Join Jane Monson for a Creative Writing Workshop based around the themes, characters and even objects in the film adaptation of To the Lighthouse.

Tutor: Dr Jane Monson. Venue: Arts Picturehouse. Cost: £12; Concs £10.

Adaptations: From Literature to Film

What relevance do folklore, fantasy and fairytales have for today’s cinema? How does Joe Wright bring Ian McEwan’s complex and layered novel Atonement to the screen? How does Japanese director Kurosawa interpret Shakespearean texts? And why does so little African-American literature get adapted for the screen? Join us for this course on adaptation from literature to film.

Tutor: Sue Burge. Cost: £95; Members £90; Concs. £75 (includes 2x cinema screenings and a comprehensive study pack).

Mrs Dalloway (PG)

Director: Marleen Gorris. Screenplay: Eileen Atkins. Novel: Virginia Woolf. Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen. UK 1997. 97 mins.

London, 1923. Clarissa Dalloway is planning a party when old suitor returns from India. Against the trauma of a young man suffering from war-time shell-shock, Clarissa relives her past in this beautiful adaptation.

The Open Road (U)

Extract: London. Director: Claude Friese-Greene.
UK 1924. Colour. Silent with Music.

Enjoy colour views of London, as would have been seen by Virginia Woolf in 1924.
Introduction: Film Historian Prof. Ian Christie (Birkbeck)

Powell and Pressburger

Join us for a course on the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Powell’s less well-known films, such as JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, define his thematic concerns with landscape, while the Archer’s collaborative films such as THE SPY IN BLACK, ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING and A CANTERBURY TALE offered 1940s British audiences a unique filmmaking style alongside propagandist ones. Powell and Pressburger brought Technicolor to wartime austerity in THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP and A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, with cinematographer Jack Cardiff, and post-war romantic and modernist colour in BLACK NARCISSUS, THE RED SHOES and GONE TO EARTH.

Tutor: Trish Sheil. Cost: £55; Concessions: £40 (Includes comprehensive study pack)

Animation Workshop

London Olympic Mascots!

Become part of a creative team of young animators and make London Olympics Mascots – Wenlock and Mandeville. Animate them using stopmotion animation, dress them up, make them talk and give them personalities! Will they jump over the River Thames or climb to the top of Big Ben? You decide!

Tutor: Monika Umba. Venue:Squeaky Gate Studios Cost: £30 each; Max 12 Places

Film Shoot:

Greatest Olympic Mistakes!

It’s the countdown to the London Olympics 2012 and our accident-prone hero is in training! Shoot a MOCKumentary film in the style of silent cinema’s hero, Charlie Chaplin, and use your acting skills to become history’s silliest sporting star! This workshop is all about the shoot. You’ll learn about shot types, camera movement, and using HD cameras and microphones to create your comedy film. Don’t forget to bring along your Olympic sports equipment: over-sized/under-sized?

Tutor: Filmmaker Ryd Cook. Venue:Cambridge Arts Picturehouse Cost: £30; Max 12 Places
A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium project for the Cultural Olympiad Open Weekend.

Short Cuts: Filmmaking Club for 10-13 Year Olds

Are you a budding fi lmmaker aged 10 to 13? Want to develop your skills in fi lm production? Then Short Cuts is for you. Learn about planning, camera techniques, interviewing and presenting to camera, shooting, editing and more. Then join our fi lmmaking team to use these skills on a one–day location shoot at a local nature reserve, followed by an editing day to complete your film.

Tutor: Ryd Cook, Filmmaker. Cost: £75

A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium Project, financially supported by Cambridge Sustainable City.

Jump Cuts: Filmmaking Club for 14-18 Year Olds

Calling filmmakers aged 14 to 18! Interested in developing your skills in digital fi lm production? Then join Jump Cuts, a fi lm club aimed at training you in documentary skills, sound techniques, planning, shooting, and editing fi lms. The course also includes a chance to hone your fi lmmaking skills on a one-day location shoot, and edit a fi lm themed on the local environment over a weekend.

Tutor: Ryd Cook, Filmmaker. Cost: £75

A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium Project, financially supported by Cambridge Sustainable City.

This Working Life: Tales from the Shipyard

Tales from the Shipyard is a major celebration of our shipbuilding heritage on screen, encompassing a new Mediatheque collection extraordinary films.
Watch Gracie Fields coming to the rescue of unemployed shipbuilders SHIPYARD SALLY (1939); Halas and Batchelor’s animation WE’VE COME WAY (1951); and the vibrant Oscar-winning documentary SEAWARDS SHIPS (1960). This fascinating selection of films brings alive the stories the shipping communities and shipyard cities around the UK, and intriguing and often surprising view of a vanished way of life.

Tickets: £4.60/Senior Citizens £3.60 (includes tea or coffee)
Bookings available one week before each screening.
Cambridgeshire Film Consortium programmes presented in association with the BFI, The Arts Picturehouse and Cambridge City Council supported by Cambridge City Council

Treasures of Silent Cinema

Explore the world of silent film from early pioneers to highlights of the late Twenties. This new course will include: the comedies of Charlie Chaplin; F.W Murnau’s German Expressionist NOSFERATU and his American classic SUNRISE; Alfred Hitchcock’s British silents such as THE MANXMAN and THE RING; adaptations of classical literature and Shakespeare plays; and racial tensions in D.W. Griffiths’ controversial BIRTH OF A NATION and African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux’s response, WITHIN OUR GATES.

Tutor: Trish Sheil
Cost: £85 Members £80 Concs. £7

21st Century Cinema

BLACKBOARDS …HIDDEN … MAN ON WIRE … SILENT LIGHT … AMORES PERROS

Back by popular demand: Look at some of the key trends, innovations and debates that are shaping cinema in the new century - from transnational and ‘slow’ cinema to Hollywood ]docu-fiction and puzzle films - and consider the ways in which cinema is continuing to define itself alongside other visual media

Tutor: Dr. Neil Archer
Cost: £75
Members £70
Concs. £6

A Portrait of London

in the 1950s

EVERYDAY EXCEPT CHRISTMAS
Director/Script: Lindsay Anderson. Producers: Karel Reisz and Leon Clore. UK 1957.
Part of the Free Cinema Movement of the 1950s, this film was affectionately dedicated to several porters at the Convent Garden market. As it documents and celebrates their busy working day from midnight to midday, this film evokes what Anderson has called the “poetry of everyday life”.
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 1957 Venice Festival of Shorts and Documentaries.

ONE POTATO TWO POTATO
Director: Leslie Daiken. UK 1957.
This film documents children’s games and rhymes of the 1950s on the bomb-sites, playgrounds and streets of London. This beautifully shot film by children’s author Leslie Daiken uses imaginative editing of sounds and spontaneous impressions of the children at play. Bound to bring back many memories of long-lost children’s play.

Cambridgeshire Film Consortium programmes presented in association with the BFI, The Arts Picturehouse and Cambridge City Council supported by Cambridge City Council

Essex of the 1950s

From the East Anglian Film Archive, a collection of public information films including: LITTER LOUT
A light-hearted film discouraging littering.

MIDDAY ADVENTURE
A day in the life of a primary school dinner lady.

MIND YOUR BIKE
On the importance of bicycle maintenance.

AXEMANSHIP FOR SCOUTS
Boy Scouts are taught axe skills.

IN NEED OF CARE
A little girl is taken into care by social services.

ESSEX RIVER
A family follow a river from the stream in their garden to the sea.

Tickets: £4.60 / Senior Citizens £3.60 with free tea or coffee
A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium event presented in association with the BFI, The East Anglian Film Archive, The Arts Picturehouse, and Cambridge City Council

Twenty-First Century Cinema

BLACKBOARDS, HIDDEN, MAN ON WIRE, THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, SILENT LIGHT, AMORES PERROS

This new course will look at some of the key trends, innovations and debates that are shaping cinema in the new century. From transnational and ‘slow’ cinema to Hollywood docu-fiction and puzzle films, you will consider the ways cinema is continuing to define itself alongside other visual media.

TUTOR: Dr Neil Archer
Course fee: £75 Members £70 (Conc. £60)

Write Out of the Dark

Love film? Curious about creative writing? This course is aimed at adults passionate about cinema, with an interest in using film as direct inspiration for their ideas and interest in creative writing. No experience of film or writing courses necessary, but an interest in literature, watching films, and interpreting them creatively is essential. This is a unique opportunity to develop responses, ideas and conversations into poetry and/or prose based on the moving image.

Tutor: Dr Jane Monson
Cost £75 Members £70 (Conc. £60).
Includes one free cinema screening

Bringing up the Family
Between 2 World Wars.

CAME THE DAWN 1912 on dentistry practices IPSWICH BABY SHOW includes a rare glimpse of Cambridge Scouts. Mothers and babies compete for a ‘bonny baby’ prize in IPSWICH BABY SHOW 1913. 1917 MOTHERHOOD starring Dorothea Baird, Jack Denton, Letty Paxton, Lady Rhondda, Mrs Lloyd George and Duchess of Malborough, was released for the first National Baby Week Council to offer informed advice to mothers when more YOUNG MARTINS babies died under the age of one than soldiers at the Front. It also reflects the post-war “Home Fit For Heroes” campaign as families move from the slums to new-build homes.

Films from the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers collection HER SECOND BIRTHDAY 1932, and A DAY IN THE LIFE OF YOUNG MARTINS record family life.

Tickets: £4.60 / Senior Citizens £3.60 with free tea or coffee

A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium event presented in association with the BFI, The East Anglian Film Archive, The Arts Picturehouse, and Cambridge City Council

Music and Sound in Film

How do music and sound function in a film to construct meaning and emotional response, and contribute to the sensory impact of a film? Join us for this study day on music and sound analysis and a screening of INNOCENCE.

Speakers: Dr Julio D’Escrivan, Reader in Creative Music Technology, Anglia Ruskin University, and Tanya Jones, Long Road Sixth Form College

Screening @ 1.00pm
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC (USUAL BOX OFFICE TICKETS APPLY)
Innocence (15)

(French English Subtitles)
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic.
Starring: Zoe Auclair, Lea Bridarolli, Berangere Haubruge. France 2004. 122 mins.

At a remote French boarding school, little girls arrive (and sometimes leave) in coffins. The sinister and unexplained arrival of 6-year-old Iris (Zoé Auclair) begins a cycle of arrival, surprise, initiation, friendship, stewardship and departure that defines life in this shadowy, gothic, part-idyllic and part-horrific school – a place of few pupils, even fewer teachers and abundant lessons dedicated to dance. Ultimately, this intelligent lament for youth lost is framed by a distinctive and fairytale vision of utopia.

Suitable for Undergraduate and GCSE/A/AS Film/Media Studies and English and Music.
Cost: £6.00 includes free teachers resource pack

Cambridge Science
Festival

Screening
Tuesday 15 March 6.00 pm at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse
Mememto (15)

Director: Christopher Nolan.
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Ann Moss, Joe Pantoliano.
USA 2000. 109 mins.

Told in an innovative style narrative style this is a classic example of film noir, but with a twist: Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) tracks down the man who not only raped and murdered his wife, but also robbed him of the ability to lay down new memories. But should Leonard trust anyone in his hunt for the elusive ‘John G.’ when he can only remember his life in 15-minute segments?

Dr. Tim Bussey will introduce the film exploring how MEMENTO was inspired by descriptions of the cognitive abilities of real life amnesic Henry Molaison (H.M.).

Screening
Saturday 26 March from 10.30 am at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse
Finding Nemo (U)

Science Activities from 10.30 am. Film starts 11.00 am
Directors: Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich.
Voices: Albert Brooks, Vicki Lewis, Alexander Gould, Ellen Degeneres, Willem Dafoe.
USA 2003. 96 mins.

After his son Nemo goes missing, clownfish Marlin teams up with amnesic regal tang Dory to try to find him. Vegetarian sharks, surf dude turtles and a giant blue whale are all part of the fun as Marlin and Dory track Nemo down to Sydney Harbour!

Find out how the brain and memory work with a free fun-filled science activity before the film.

Hammer Horror Study Event

Tutor: Darren Elliott-Smith (Lecturer in Film, University of Hertfordshire)

Offering up a consideration of a the ‘Britishness’ of Horror film this event will focus upon a production history and textual analysis of the Hammer Horror aesthetic as indicative of the culture in which it was conceived and one that is rife with political, sexual and cultural repression. Case studies of significant Hammer titles, from its golden age to present day re-emergence, will demonstrate how its groundbreaking, lurid, colour presentation of ‘Kensington Gore’ and unabashed sexuality, set the benchmark for international horror.

Screening
Dracula Prince of Darkness (15)

Director: Terence Fisher
Starring: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley Andrew Keir.
UK 1966. 90 min.

In this 1966 classic Hammer Horror film, two couples traveling in Eastern Europe decide to visit Carlstad despite dire local warnings. Left outside the village by a coachman terrified at the approach of night, they find themselves in the local castle and are surprised at the hospitality extended by the sinister Klove. The owner, Count Dracula, dead for ten years, is awaiting their visit.

Suitable for A/AS/Undergraduate Film/Media Studies
Cost: £4.00 Accompanying Teachers Free includes free teachers resource pack

Designing Costumes for
The Company of Wolves

With guest speaker Elizabeth Waller

Elizabeth Waller, BAFTA-nominated for costume design on THE COMPANY OF WOLVES, four times BAFTA-nominated designer and winner of a BAFTA for her design work on THE CAMOMILE LAWN (Channel 4), Elizabeth also won an EMMY for her work on ELIZABETH R (BBC).

”Director Neil Jordan evokes an eerie atmosphere for the film’s heightened reality. Its otherworldly scenery and costumes seem to have been inspired by fairy-tale illustrations, mixed with studio-bound visual style of Hammer horror. (Louise Watson, BFI)

Screening
The Company of Wolves (18)

Director: Neil Jordan.
Starring: Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea.
UK 1984. 95 mins.

Based on an Angela Carter’s modern fairy-tale The Bloody Chamber, this gothic fantasy-horror film follows the tale of Rosaleen whose sister is killed by wolves. Rosaleen’s grandmother ominously warns her to beware men whose eyebrows meet. When a wolf attacking the village cattle is caught and killed its corpse transforms into a human being. Rosaleen then later encounters an attractive huntsman whose eyebrows meet, but when he attacks her grandmother she is torn between vengeance and her own desire and pity for him for him.

Cost: Students: £4.00 Accompanying teachers Free
Suitable for A/AS/Undergraduate English/ Film/Media Studies

Introduction to
Understanding Film

Un Chien Andalou, La Jette, Twelve Monkeys, Billy Elliot, The Maltese Falcon, Black Naarcissus, Psycho, Goodfellas, A Colour Box

Join us for this informal and friendly evening course exploring editing patterns, avant-garde practices, narrative techniques, and adaptation of literature into film. Using wide- ranging film examples, the course will provide you with an opportunity to develop an understanding of film language, to watch films and participate in relaxed post-screen discussions.

Tutor: Trish Sheil
Course fee: £99 Members £95 (Conc. £80)
Includes two free cinema screenings and a comprehensive study pack.

Creative Editing

Make the most of your film footage with a creative and fun approach to editing. In this workshop you’ll use professional editing software, digital cameras and special effects to create your own film. Don’t forget your costumes and props on the day!

Tutor: Ryd Cook
Venue: Cambridge Arts Picturehouse
Cost: £30 (lunch not provided)
Ages 10-14 years (max 12 places)

Cambridge
Through The Archives

See the city of Cambridge changing through films from the East Anglian Film Asrchive to include TOOT AN KUM IN, a 1923 spoof celebrations of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen on the streets of Cambridge; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIFE, 1928-1930 includes rag week and skating on the River Cam and CAMBRIDGE, 1931, follows a day in the life of an undergraduate.

Marketing The Kings Speech

With Guest Speaker Colin Burrows
(The Special Treats Production Company)

The Special Treats Production Company provide a wide variety of Electronic Press Kits and Video News Releases for the entertainment industry. In addition to major productions like the BOND films, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, and the POTTER films, they have a strong track record in working on films with more complex subject matter or literary antecedents such as EASTERN PROMISES, PRIDE & PREJUDICE, THE CONSTANT GARDENER, and THE GIRL WITH THE PEARL EARRING.

Screening
The Kings Speech (12A)

Everything is Illuminated

Director: Liev Schreiber.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Laryssa Lauret. USA, 2005. 106 mins.

Jonathan Foer, a young American-Jew, goes on a quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather during the Holocaust in a small Ukrainian town wiped off the map when the Nazis liquidated Eastern European shtetls. His guides are a cranky, anti-semitic grandfather, his deranged Border collie, Sammy Davis Jr. Jr., and his over-enthusiastic grandson, Alex, whose fractured command of English, passion for American pop culture, and constant chatter threaten to make the worst of every situation. But what starts out as the tour from hell turns into a meaningful journey, with an unexpected series of revelations that will change all of their lives.

Dr. Sean Lang (Anglia Ruskin University) will lead a post screen discussion on the issues of filming the Holocaust
Cost: Students £1.00 Accompanying teachers Free

A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium event in collaboration with Cambridge City Council’s Holocaust Memorial Day steering committee and Theatrix.

Christmas
From The Archives

Celebrate the festive season with films from the East Anglian Film Archive to include a newsreel about Xmas beef in 1920 and a 1944 film of GI airmen of the 25th Bomber Group entertaining war-time orphans who tuck in at a Christmas party in Watton during WWII. Enjoy highlights from a 1980 Anglia Television Bygones Christmas edition starring Dick Joice at Thursford Museum of Organs and listen to some popular carols sung to the accompaniment of the Mighty Wurlitzer.

Tickets: £4.60
Senior Citizens: £3.60 ticket for senior citizens plus free tea/ coffee with each ticket

A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium even presented in association with The East Anglian Film Archive, The Arts Picture House and Cambridge City Council

Cambridge School of Art Presents

Via di san Teodoro 8.

Admired by John Cage, and inspired by non- western music, Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) was an Italian composer developing micro-tonal music. Via di San Teodoro 8 reflects Scelsi’s sonic tendencies through the spaces, sounds and vistas of his family home in the heart of Rome.

Film Noir weekend

Tutor: Trish Sheil.
Study film noirs of the forties such as THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE and DOUBLE INDEMNITY with their Expressionist stylistics, low-key lighting, alienated anti-heroes and seductive femme fatales. Look also at contemporary neo-noirs such as BLADE RUNNER, KILL ME AGAIN and CROUPIER.

Course fee: £75, Members: £70,
Concessions: £55 Includes a comprehensive study pack, complimentary tea/coffee on arrival each day and discounted food in the Arts Picturehouse café bar.

Working the East of England

Follow migrant workers in the East of England from the Victorian times onward. GONE TO BURTON, shows farm workers in East Anglia finding seasonal work in Midland breweries, ENGLAND MAY BE HOME follows Italian workers in Bedford and HERRING GIRLS shows the East coast fishing trade attracting migrant Scottish girls to gut and pack herrings.

Creative Writing and Film

Tutor: Jane Monson
Are you a creative writer? Inspired by film? Buy a ticket and watch The Adventures of Prince Achmed at 6.00 pm then join us for a free Cambridgeshire Film Consortium taster session on Creative Writing and Film.

The Adventures of Achmed
(PG)

Director: Lotte Reiniger.
Germany 1926. 66 mins.
Silent with English subtitles/voiceover.

Hailed as the first full-length animated film in the history of cinema, this Arabian Nights story tells of an evil sorcerer who lures Prince Achmed onto a magical flying horse and sends him on a flight to his death. In foiling this plan the Prince’s adventures include battles with assorted monsters, spirits and ogres, and falling in love with the beautiful Princess Peri Banu. Eighty-four years on, this film still stands as one of the classics of animation – enchanting, inventive, delicate and romantic. Plus short films produced by Anglia Ruskin University students inspired by the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Shahnameh exhibition.

Digital Film Production
Workshops For Young People

Mini-Eco-Doc Digital Film Workshop

Can you imagine a Spring without bees? A sea without fish? Bring along your own bee/fish costumes and props to make fun and informative mini eco- documentaries. Learn to use special effects while shooting, and bring it all together in the editing room!

Tutor: Ryd Cook

The Greenest Animation Project, Ever!

Have you got green fingers, a green head but you are not an alien? Then go ahead and join us for the ‘Greenest Animation Project’ ever!!! Use stop-motion and 2D computer animation to express your wildest, green ideas!

Tutor: Monika Umba

Adaptations:
From Literature to Film.

Ten weeks from 6 October to 15 December
(excluding 27 October)

What relevance do folklore, fantasy and fairytales have for today’s cinema? How does Joe Wright bring Ian McEwan’s complex and layered novel AToNEMENT to the screen? How does Japanese director Kurosawa interpret Shakespearean texts? And why does so little African-American literature get adapted for the screen? Join us for this new course on the adaptation of literature to film.

Tutor: Sue Burge

Into Film 1:
An Introduction to
Understanding Film.

Ten weeks from 5 October to 14 December
(excluding 26 October)

UN CHIEN ANDALOU, LA JETTÉE, TWELVE MONKEYS, BILLY ELLIOT, THE MALTESE FALCON, BLACK NARCISSUS, PSYCHO, GOODFELLAS, A COLOUR BOX.
Join us for this informal and friendly evening course exploring editing patterns, avant-garde practices, narrative techniques, and the adaptation of literature into film. Using wide-ranging film examples, the course will provide you with an opportunity to develop an understanding of film language, to watch films and participate in relaxed post-screen discussions.

Tutor: Trish Sheil
Course fee: £95 / Members £90 / conc. £75
Includes two free cinema screenings and a comprehensive study pack.

Famous Faces of East Anglia

From newsreel footage, promotional films and rare, never broadcast material we have Alfred Hitchcock in Cambridge, a young David Frost, David Dimbleby, Allan Smethhurst (the Singing Postman) George Bernard Shaw and George Formby.

Howard’s End (PG)

Director: James Ivory.
Screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham-Carter, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Joseph Bennet, Prunella Scales, James Wilby, Ian Latimer.
UK/Japan 1992. 140 mins.

Marking the centenary of the publication of E.M. Forster’s 1910 novel Howard’s End, this screening of James Ivory’s Oscar-winning film adaptation follows a class struggle in turn-of-the-century England, as three families from different social classes are inter-woven in a conflict over scandal, prejudice, guilt and the ultimate possession of Howard’s End.

Introduction and post-screen discussion: Professor Adrian Poole (Cambridge University)

Spotlight on Vital Communities (U)

Director: Dominique Chadwick

Through dance, drama, film, literature, music, and visual arts, SPOTLIGHT investigates the impacts of taking part in the arts. Followed by Q&A and shared refreshments.

Bookings: 01223 766766

National Schools Film Week

SECONDARY/SIXTH FORM/UNDERGRADUATE

4.3.2.1 (15)

Good Bye Lenin (15)

Nosferatu (PG)

With presentations from Dr Nina Lubren (Anglia Ruskin University) and Philip Lloyd (Hinchingbrooke School).

The Age of Stupid (12A)

PRIMARY AGE

Fantastic Mr Fox (U)

Kirikou and the Sorceress (U)

Up (U)

Student Critics
at the Cambridge Film Festival

Are you in full-time education? Want film industry experience as a critic? Write reviews for the Cambridge Film Festival and they could be published in the Festival Daily newspaper and on the festival website. You might even win a prize as BEST STUDENT CRITIC!

Opportunities for free tickets before 5.00pm /
reduced price evening tickets.

Minimum three reviews (200-250 words).
Further information e-mail: cpo25@cam.ac.uk

London 2012 Film Nation:
Shorts - Free Film-Making Workshops

Win the chance to have your film shown in the stadiums at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. Two workshops from Film Nation: Shorts, a national project with London 2012 and Panasonic. One of the major Cultural Olympiad initiatives, to introduce young people to filmmaking.
www.filmnation.org.uk

Make a Film
in a Day Workshop.

Working with industry professionals through First Light, make a short film in a day, themed around the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Learn about story, camera, sound, directing,editing and producing.

Ages 14-16
FREE EVENT (inc. lunch). Max. 12 places.

An Introduction to Directing

Working with 104 Films a Film & TV Production company, and co-producers on the recent Ian Dury biopic SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL, learn the necessary skills & techniques to successfully direct actors on screen.

Ages 19-25
FREE EVENT. Max. 30 places.

Behind the Scenes of
Today's Film and Television Industry

Learn about finding an agent, working to commission, composing music, the work of the art and set designer and the role of the film reviewer. Also how student filmmakers can become regular contributors to the BBC Video Nation Network, an exciting online project inviting submissions to current BBC features and campaigns.

Speakers: BBC Video Nation: Agent Peter MacFarlane: Film Critic Sight and Sound Catherine Wheatley; Sloane U’ren, Art Director on HARRY POTTER AND THE HALFBLOOD PRINCE, and BATMAN BEGINS; Ant Neely, Composer for SIX FEET UNDER

Cost: £4. Tickets limited.

A CFC event in collaboration with The Department of English, Communication, Film and Media, and Cambridge School of Art, at Anglia Ruskin University.

Student Showcase

SPEED OF LIFE - ECHO’S ANSWER - 8 BELLS – SKY
The Department of English, Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University proudly presents a screening of outstanding work by student filmmakers 2009-2010.

FREE EVENT.
Bookings: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk
Enquiries: trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk

I Made This (U)

Vengeance-Darwin, Endless Forms - Food Flash

A celebratory screening of Cambridgeshire Film Consortium 2009-2010 films produced by young people. To include animations, documentaries and film dramas, CFC 1-minute-films and Filmstarz Festival winners.

FREE EVENT.
Bookings: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk
Enquiries: trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk

Workshop with Neil Brand

Composing, and Playing Live, to Silent Films.
Join us for a workshop with composer Neil Brand who has been accompanying silent films for over 25 years and scored for BFI video releases SOUTH (Shackleton’s Journey to the South Pole), THE RING by Alfred Hitchcock, and Early Cinema.

Venue: Queen’s Building, Emmanuel College
COST: £3.50 Max. 12 places.

A CFC event in collaboration with The Department of English, Communication, Film and Media, and Cambridge School of Art, at Anglia Ruskin University

The Masks of Mer

Director: Michael Eaton. UK 2010. 40 mins.

In 1898 Alfred Haddon led the Cambridge University Expedition to the Torres Strait Islands and shot a short film, the world’s first example of anthropological cinema. In the documentary, THE MASKS OF MER, director Michael Eaton traces the extraordinary story of this neglected footage.

Introduction/post-screen discussion with Director Michael Eaton OBE

Summer Holiday Fun

Film Production Workshop
Ages: 8 - 12 years (max 10 places)
Venue: Cambridge Arts Picturehouse
Tutor: Filmmaker Rydian Cook

Hobbits, portals, ghosts and magic! Use professional digital cameras, tripods, microphones plus your imagination, to produce a ‘fantasy’ short fi lm using different special effects! Don’t forget to bring along your props and costumes!

A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium event for the 2012 Open Weekend Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

Martians Invade Cambridge

Animation Workshop
Cost: £15. Max 10 places.
Venue: Anglia Ruskin University
Tutor: Monika Umba.

A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium project for the Cultural Olympiad Open Weekend

Watch all the finished films here and at the Cambridge Film Festival ‘I Made This’ Programme on Saturday 18 September!

Powell &
Pressburger

The release of the digitally restored THE RED SHOES in 2009 and the tributes to the late Jack Cardiff, British Technicolor Cinematographer, are testament to Powell and Pressburger’s enduring critical and popular acclaim. Join us for a study day exploring their wartime and post-war films such as THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP and A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH; the romantic and modernist colour of BLACK NARCISSUS; and some of their less well known films, such as JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD and GONE TO EARTH.

Tutor: Trish Sheil.
Course fee: £50; Members £45; Concessions £35.
Price includes free screening plus a comprehensive study pack.

Brit Chic Fashion:
Fashion on Film

1946 - 1989

A kaleidoscopic programme of post-war British fashion from the BFI National Archive. From utility to utopia, high end to high street, BRIT CHIC salutes the nation’s fashion, which escaped austere WWII utility-wear to give us sumptuous gowns by Norman Hartnell anticipating Dior’s New Look. The film shows accessible ‘50s fashion in a blossoming consumer culture; ‘60s swinging Biba, Ossie Clark and Mary Quant; and ‘70s punk and mavericks Zandra Rhodes and Vivienne Westwood’s iconoclastic designs. Welcome to the front row!

Tickets: £4.60; Senior Citizens: £3.60 plus free tea/coffee with each ticket.
Presented in association with the BFI, the Arts Picturehouse, Cambridgeshire FIlm Consortium and Cambridge City Council.

The Vanishing of Bees

Directors: George Langsworthy, Maryam Henein.
USA 2009. 97 mins.

Introduced by speakers on The Co-operative’s ‘Plan Bee’ campaign, beekeeping and the environment Honeybees pollinate one third of the food we eat but their population across the globe is declining dramatically, with potentially catastrophic consequences. Through interviews with scientists and beekeepers, THE VANISHING OF THE BEES investigates the root causes of the bee population collapse and asks wider questions about modern intensive agricultural processes. Is it time to bring an end to factory farming and let nature continue the job?

“I realised this was a global issue, a compelling story, and one I had to cover.”
(DIRECTOR GEORGE LANGWORTHY)

A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium event for Cambridge City Council Environment Festival sponsored by the Co-operative Membership www.co-operative.co.uk and supported by the Co-operative ‘Plan Bee’ Campaign.

Young Peoples
Film Festival

Open to young filmmakers; primary/secondary/sixth form teachers working with young people; college/university students. With an ‘Oscars’ style Awards Ceremony.

Primary age: the Cambridge Corn Exchange, 8 July;
11-21 years: the Arts Picturehouse, 25 June.
For IT support, trouble shooting and editing email Rydian from the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium office: rydcook@gmail.com

BFI Mediatheque on Tour

The Search for
Shangri-La: Tibet on Film

1922-1950
Introduced by Jan Faull from the BFI National Archive

This selection of films from the BFI National Archive reveals extraordinary images taken in Tibet from 1922 to 1950, including the 1922 attempt to climb Mount Everest, the installation of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in Lhasa, and home movies capturing ceremonial events, landscapes, flora and fauna, providing a poignant testimony and a vital record of a lost world.

Tickets: £4.60; Senior Citizens: £3.60 plus free tea/coffee with each ticket.
Booking opens one week before each screening.
Presented in association with the BFI, the Arts Picturehouse, Cambridgeshire FIlm Consortium and Cambridge City Council.

INTO FILM 1:
An Introduction to Understanding Film

UN CHIEN ANDALOU, LA JETTÉE, TWELVE MONKEYS, BILLY ELLIOT, THE MALTESE FALCON, BLACK NARCISSUS, PSYCHO, GOODFELLAS, A COLOUR BOX.

Do you enjoy watching movies? Would you like to learn more about film? Why not join us for this informal and friendly evening course, exploring editing patterns, avant-garde practices, narrative techniques, and adaptation of literature to film? Using wide-ranging film examples, the course will provide you with an opportunity to develop an understanding of film language, to watch films and participate in relaxed post-screening discussions.

Tutor: Trish Sheil.
Course fee: £85; Members £80; Concessions £65.
Includes two free cinema screenings and a comprehensive study pack.
* excluded 1 and 8 June.

Exploring
Spanish Cinema

UN CHIEN ANDALOU, LA JETTÉE, TWELVE MONKEYS, BILLY ELLIOT, THE MALTESE FALCON, BLACK NARCISSUS, PSYCHO, GOODFELLAS, A COLOUR BOX.

Do you enjoy watching movies? Would you like to learn more about film? Why not join us for this informal and friendly evening course, exploring editing patterns, avant-garde practices, narrative techniques, and adaptation of literature to film? Using wide-ranging film examples, the course will provide you with an opportunity to develop an understanding of film language, to watch films and participate in relaxed post-screening discussions.

Tutor: Trish Sheil.
Course fee: £85; Members £80; Concessions £65.
Includes two free cinema screenings and a comprehensive study pack.
* excludes 1 and 8 June.

Bombs at Teatime: War-Time Britain

These films document domestic life of war-time Britain under austerity seeking to retain its sanity in the shadow of war. ISLAND PEOPLE Dir: Paul Rotha & Philip Leacock is a portrait of Britain in which ‘High Tea’ isn’t often taken. But pubs, football and gardening are still fixtures of national life; FIVE-INCH BATHER directed by Richard Massingham instructs Britons in the importance of war-time water economy; THE COUNTRYWOMEN shows Women’s Institute contribution to the War effort; and CHRISTMAS UNDER FIRE shows how life goes on as usual, but in 1941 Christmas trees are cut short to fit in the shelters and the London Underground’s platforms are lined with people trying to sleep.

Presented in association with the British Film Institute, The Arts Picture House, Cambridgeshire Film Consortium and Cambridge City Council

VERTIGO Study Day

Through presentations, illustrated with film clips, this CFC Vertigo study day will explore the social and production backgound to Vertigo, Hitchcock as auteur and women in Hitchcock films.

Speakers included:
Dr Sarah Barrow (Anglia Ruskin University)
Mark Hansard (Saffron Walden County High School)
Philip Lloyd (Hinchinbrooke School)

KING COAL:
A CENTURY OF COAL MINING ON FILM

This programme offers a remarkable insight into an industry which came to define 20th century Britain, from precious early films such as A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner to 1940s animation, National Coal Board recruitment advertisements and rare screenings of 1980s documentaries from the Miners’ Strike. The programme also includes Calvacanti’s 1935 Coal Face (words by W.H. Auden, music by Benjamin Britten), and 1960’s ballads by Ewan MacColl in The Songs of the Coalfields.

BLADE RUNNER :
Science Fiction on Film (15)

Speakers: Prof. Rowland Wymer (Anglia Ruskin University) on the adaptation to film of Philip K. Dick’s source novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Cambridge University Scientist: Science Fact or Fiction in Blade Runner?

BLADE RUNNER (15)

Director: Ridley Scott.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Daryl Hannah.
117 mins. USA 1982.

Inspired by Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS, Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER is now a film classic of the sci-fi genre. In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth. Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop searching out six escaped replicants.

Suitable for: GCSE/A/AS Level Film/Media/Studies/EnglishScience
Cost: £3.50. Accompanying teachers free
A CFC Event for Cambridge Science Festival 2010

MEXICAN CINEMA STUDY DAY

Presentations on Mexican cinema since 1990 in the wider context of Mexican culture, politics and the Mexican film industry.

Speakers:
Stephanie Muir (WJEC Examiner)
Dr Sarah Barrow (Anglia Ruskin University)
Erica Segre (University of Cambridge, Centre for Latin American Studies)
Paula Beegan (Cambridge Film Trust)