Six weeks, Wednesdays, 1 May - 12 June (excl. 29 May)
6.00-8.00

Twentieth-Century
German Cinema

PANDORA'S BOX » FRITZ LANG'S M » AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD » THE LIVES OF OTHERS

Weimar directors F. W. Murnau and G. W. Pabst reshaped the visual and psychological possibilities of film, the Nazis unleashed the medium's terrible power, and post-war divisions sparked the critical provocations of the 1970s' New German Cinema. Join us for this new course to see how Germany's turbulent 20th century led to a cinema that has proved innovative, powerful and prone to startling reinventions.

Tutor: Phil Lloyd
Cost: £70 / Members £65 / Concs £60
(includes comprehensive study pack)

Ten weeks, Thursdays, 2 May - 4 July
6.00-8.00

Confidence with Cameras

A Practical Film Production Course for Aspiring and Amateur Filmmakers, and for Professionals Using Film for Teaching or Evaluation

Do you want to make your own film, or use digital video in your teaching or research, but lack the skills or confidence? Then this is the course for you. You will be trained in using cameras and filmmaking equipment, directing, working with actors, cinematography and location shooting, as well as in how to use current software to edit footage and sound recordings. With its friendly, informed style, this will be the course to give you the confidence and skills to create a film and/or use digital video in your work.

Tutor: independent filmmaker Ryd Cook, plus guest tutors
Suitable for people aged over 21 Maximum 12 people
Cost: £250 / Members £240 / Concs £220

Tuesdays, 9 April - 18 June (excl. 28 May)
6.00am - 8.00pm

Into Film 1:An Introduction
To Understanding Film

CINEMA PARADISO > THE LODGER > PSYCHO > SINGIN' IN THE RAIN > LA JETEE > THE MALTESE FALCON > BILLY ELLIOTT > THE RED SHOES > A TOUCH OF EVIL > STRIKE > GOODFELLAS

Learn how to read film as a distinctive contemporary art form. Watch a range of film clips to explore the history of silent and sound cinema, film editing patterns, the construction of film narrative, avant-garde practises, and the adaptation of literature to screen. Watch full-length films and participate in relaxed and informed post-screening discussions.

Tutor: Trish Sheil
Cost: £95 / Members:£90 / Concs:£75
(includes two free cinema screenings and a comprehensive study pack)

Six weeks, Mon 22 April - 10 June
(excl. 6 and 27 May)
6.00 - 8.00

Six of the Best:
Classic Films in Close-up

How did french cinema influence the violent fantasy of IF...? How do films like THE FULL MONTY and THE ARTIST become instant classics? How are THE SERVANT and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE connected? This course will examine a classic film in detail each week, looking at the background to the film and tracing its influence.

Tutors: Sue Burge
Cost: £70 / Members: £65 / Concs: £60

Sat 20 April
10.00 - 6.00

Japanese Cinema Day:
Samurai Swords and
Sliding Screens

The Enigmatic World of Japanese Cinema

Examine the work of key director, including Kurosowa, Ozu and Naruse, in this relaxed and informal study day. The course will provide a fascinating insight into Japan's post-war sociopolitical climate, while also exploring the impact of its cinematic legacy on the west. Another key theme will be how Japanese films express anxiety about the potential loss of traditional culture.

Tutors: Sue Burge
Cost: £65 / Members:£60 / Concs:£50

Six weeks, Mon 22 April - 10 June
(excl. 6 and 27 May)
6.00 - 8.00

Six of the Best:
Classic Films in Close-up

How did french cinema influence the violent fantasy of IF...? How do films like THE FULL MONTY and THE ARTIST become instant classics? How are THE SERVANT and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE connected? This course will examine a classic film in detail each week, looking at the background to the film and tracing its influence.

Tutors: Sue Burge
Cost: £70 / Members: £65 / Concs: £60

Saturday 6 April
4.00pm

Magic Green Screen
Filmmaking!

1 Day Workshop for 8-13 Year Olds

Imagine if you had the power to be anywhere! The magic of green screen allows us to do this in filmmaking! Use professional cameras, tripods & microphones to shoot a film using a green screen. Then once its been shot, see how visual effects software transforms the world in which your characters are in.

Venue: Anglia Ruskin University
Tutor: Ryd Cook
Cost: £45

3 Weekends: 13-14, 20-21, & 27-28 April
11.00am - 4.00pm

Jump Cuts

CREATIVE SOUND & CINEMA FOR 14-19 YEAR OLDS

The film-soundtrack is a powerful tool for filmmakers. It goes a long way to set the tone, feeling, and emotion in films. Using DSLR cameras shoot a visual documentary and learn how to create a thought-provoking, interesting and moving film by adding your own live, and digitally recorded, sound and music.

Venue: Anglia Ruskin University
Tutors: Filmmaker Ryd Cook, Composer/Sound Designer James Rogers
Cost: £95

Wednesday 17 April
1.00pm

More Travels Through
The Archive

60 mins

Join us on a travelogue through the archive starting in 1952 with a young Richard Dimbleby as he presents us with the delightful COME WITH ME TO NORWICH. In the 1955 A DAY OF ONE'S OWN we take trips by train across the UK with a busy housewife and women groups escaping from their domestic cares to take train journeys to get away from it all. In the 1966 British Pathe LIGHT ON EAST ANGLIA we get a beautiful and tranquil dawn-to-dusk picture of life in the East of England.

Tickets: £5
Senior Citizens: £4 ticket for senior citizens plus free tea/coffee with each ticket Bookings available 1 week before each screening
Tel 0871 902 5720 or in person at Arts Picturehouse Box office

Six weeks, Mon 22 Apr - 10 Jun
(excl. 6 and 27 May)
6.00 - 8.00

Six of the Best:
Classic Films in Close-up

How did french cinema influence the violent fantasy of IF...? How do films like THE FULL MONTY and THE ARTIST become instant classics? How are THE SERVANT and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE connected? This course will examine a classic film in detail each week, looking at the background to the film and tracing its influence.

Tutors: Sue Burge
Cost: £70 / Members: £65 / Concs: £60

Thursday 21 March
10.30

Rapunzel (PG)

60 mins (German, Subtitled)

Based on a Grimms Fairy tale this wonderful film follows Rapunzel, taken away from her parents by a sorceress who keeps her trapped in a tower for years. One day, the prince after climbing up the tower on her meter-long hair, falls in love with the beautiful Rapunzel.

Suitable for: KS2 German, Literacy

FREE EVENT

Thursday 21 March
10.00

If Not Us Who? (15)

Director: Andres Veiel.
Starring: August Diehl, Lena Lauzemis.
Germany 2011. 124 mins.

In 1960s West Germany, Bernward Vesper (Diehl) lives in the shadow of his domineering father, a former Nazi poet, who he feels compelled to defend. The young man believes that words, when used correctly, possess the power to change the world. Based on an emotional true story in an explosive era.

FREE EVENT

Tuesday 26 March
10.00

Cria Cuervos (12A)

Director: Carlos Saura.
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Monica Randall.
Spain 1976. 110 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.

An allegorical drama about an eight-year-old girl dealing with loss.

FREE EVENT

Wednesday 20 March
1.00

Travelling through the
Archives (80 mins)

CYCLISTS SPECIAL shows the cycling delights in the heart of 1950's England while in JOHN BETJAMIN GOES BY TRAIN we join the late Poet Laureate along his 1960's North Norfolk railway journey. Also see early footage of an 1896 rush hour on London Bridge, (dir. Arthur Melbourne Cooper), cyclists in 1900 and a tramway ride through Norwich 1902. Charabancs and trains transport children for a Sunday School outing in 1916. Look at some of the last train journeys in 1920's Wisbech and Southwold, and watch 1930's traffic on the Great Northern Railway and Great North Road Stevenage, Herts. The 1961 Wisbech Railway takes us on a journey to transport fruit between Wisbech and Upwell.

FREE EVENT

Thursday 7 March
10.15am - 12.30pm
At the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse

The Biggest Book
Show On Earth

BROADCAST LIVE FROM THE QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL, LONDON

A World Book Day event for Primary Schools, celebrating children's authors, illustrators, books and reading!

Children's author and TV star Tony Robinson will lead this event featuring bestselling children's authors Lauren Child (Ruby Redfort), Shirley Hughes (Alfie), Cathy Cassidy (The Chocolate Box Girls), Liz Pichon (Tom Gates), Francesca Simon (Horrid Henry), Anthony Horowitz (Alex Rider), Guy Parker-Rees (Giraffes Can't Dance), Rachel Bright (Love Monster) showing how they capture their ideas, developing characters, using and creating illustrations and structuring stories, to create such compelling characters, stories and books.

The event includes:

• An exclusive reading by Francesa Simon of an extract from her forthcoming book Horrid Henry's Nightmare, followed by a Q&A session with all the authors
• The chance for your students to ask the authors a question – every school who books will be asked to submit up to 3 questions in advance, and the top 20 questions submitted will be answered live by the authors!
• A resource pack for KS1 & 2 to accompany the event and support your pre- and post- screening work in the classroom
• A special competition – get your students to dress as their favourite book character - with book prizes up for grabs
• A chance for your students to use their £1 World Book Day book token to buy a book at the cinema to take home as a souvenir*.

Suitable for: KS 1 & 2: Literacy, Art Tickets: £2.50 per student, accompanying teachers free

Tuesday 12 March
10.00am

Untouchable (15)

Directors: Oliver Nakache, Eric Toledano. Starring: Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy. France 2011. 112 mins. French with English subtitles.

After he becomes a quadriplegic from aparagliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caretaker.

FREE EVENT

Thursdau 14 March, 10.00am

The Red Balloon & The White Mane

The Red Balloon (U)

Director: Albert Lamorisse.
Starring: Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse, George Sellier.
France 1956. 34 mins.

A red balloon with a life of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.

The White Mane (PG)

Director: Albert Lamorisse.
Starring: Alain Emery, Laurent Roche.
France 1953. 47 mins.

A boy befriends a wild white horse in the Camargue. Ranchers seek to capture the horse, but it escapes and the boy sets out to find it.

FREE EVENT

Thursday 28 February
9.00am - 3.30pm

British Film Industry Day

Presentations:

• Defining a British Film - John White, Anglia Ruskin University/Co-editor of Routledge Fifty Key British Films
• Analysing Sound and Music in Film - Larry Sider, School of Sound
• Screening and post-screen discussion with Claire Chapman, producer of The Last King of Scotland, a financially successful co-production between UK and US companies, including Fox Searchlight Pictures and Film4

The Last King of Scotland

Director: Kevin Macdonald.
Starring: James McAvoy, Forest Whitaker, Gillian Anderson.
UK/ Germany 2006. 121 mins.

This fictional story which received wide critical acclaim, follows Dr. Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy), a young Scottish doctor who travels to Uganda and becomes the personal physician to the dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Whitaker's outstanding performance won him best Actor at the Academy Awards.

Suitable for A/AS/Undergraduate Film Media Studies Cost: £8.00 per student. Accompanying Teachers free.

Mondays 4 February - 4 March
6.00 - 8.00

Shakespeare on Screen

ROMEO AND JULIET » HAMLET » KING LEAR » HENRY V » CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT » RAN » TITUS » PROSPERO'S BOOKS » TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU

Join us for a new course to take a close look at some of the most celebrated screen Shakespeares (including films by Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier), as well as exploring foreign-language adaptations and more recent Shakespeare films. Consider how different filmmakers have gone about translating these complex works of drama for the cinema, and learn how the strange and eventful history of Shakespeare on film continues to evolve.

Tutor: Dr Chris O'Rourke (University College London)
Cost: £60 Members £55 Concs £50
(includes comprehensive study pack)

Wednesday 20 February
1.00

A British Way Of LIfe

Join us for a look at working life and leisure life across Britain and East Anglia to include ISLAND PEOPLE 1941 dir. Paul Rotha, on the lives, work and leisure of in 1940's British workers. THROUGH EAST ANGLIA 1948, follows the traditional East Anglian ways of life. In CRICKET 1951 Ralph Richardson follows the sweet sound of leather on willow in a history of the English game.
Also watch village scenes in Brook, Norfolk 1955 and Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire, 1974.

FREE EVENT
Tel 0871 902 5720 or in person at Arts Picturehouse Box office

Application Deadline Wed 9 January

BFI Film Academy for
16-19 Year Olds

The Cambridgeshire Film Consortium is pleased to announce that, in collaboration with the BFI and the Department of Education, it has been successfully nominated to run a regional BFI Film Academy for young people ages 16–19 who have a passion for, and demonstrable commitment to enter, the film industry. The Academy will be based at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse and Anglia Ruskin University. Working with professionals from the film industry, participants will be supported in filmmaking, critical and cultural film understanding, and career pathways, through screenings and presentations, practical film production workshops, post-production skills and a British Film Industry Conference. The project will also be linked to the Arts Award.

Cost: £60
Some bursaries available with support for travel costs
Maximum 17 places for successful applicants

HOW TO APPLY:

Applicants must be aged 16–19, and must be available on the following dates:
• Saturdays 2, 9, 16 and 23 February and 2 March, from 10.00am to 4.00pm (for the course)
• Thu 28 Feb, from 9.00am to 3.30pm (for a British Film Industry Day)
• Mon 18 Mar, from 5.00pm onwards (for the Presentation Event)

Send your application letter: By email to trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk
By post/in person (mark your envelope 'BFI Film Academy') to Cambridgeshire Film Consortium, Arts Picturehouse, 38–39 St Andrew's Street, Cambridge CB2 3AR

Your application must include: Your contact details: name, address, email address and contact telephone number. A maximum of 500 words to demonstrate your passion for, commitment to and initiative in film, and to show how taking part in the BFI Film Academy would benefit you and your career – for example, as a critic, composer, sound designer, screenwriter, editor, filmmaker or film programmer, or in another career path in the film industry.
Include your experience and, if possible, examples of your work (e.g. photographs, YouTube/Vimeo links or film reviews).

As well as this, please complete & include this short survey which you can download from the links below;

Download your application survey here (pdf)
·Download as txt
·Download as Doc

Friday 25 January
10.00am

Korczak

Director: Andrzej Wajda. Starring Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska. Poland/Germany/UK 1990. 117 mins. Polish with English subtitles.

This powerful film is based on the true story of Dr Janusz Korczak, a renowned Jewish-Polish physician and author who ran a home for Jewish orphans in 1930s Warsaw. When the orphans were deported to the gas chambers of Treblinka, Dr Korczak was offered a chance to escape, but he refused to abandon the children and remained with them until the end. The magic realism at the end of the film adds emotional and lyrical power to the portrayal of Dr Korczak's extraordinary humanity in the face of the bestiality of the Holocaust, during which one and a half million Jewish children were murdered.

Mike Levy, who holds a Fellowship in Holocaust Education with the Imperial War Museum and is a freelance educator with the Holocaust Education Trust, will introduce the film and share his experiences of visiting Korczak's orphanage in Warsaw.

Suitable for teaching Citizenship through Human Rights, PSHE, History and Documentary Filmmaking for GCSE/A/AS/Undergraduate-level Film/Media Studies. The general public are also welcome.

Cost: Free

Monday 28 January
5.00 - 6.00

Inspiring Cambridgeshire
A film by Peter Harmer

INSPIRING CAMBRIDGESHIRE is a documentary film that celebrates the wide variety of arts, sports and cultural events and activities that were inspired by this year's Olympic and Paralympic Games. From local festivals, fun days, games, parades and carnivals to the Olympic Torch and Paralympic Lantern Relays, this fascinating record shows how people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds across Cambridgeshire celebrated London 2012 through the themes of diversity, culture, legacy, community, inspiration and success.

Join us for a post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Peter Harmer and Arts Officers Joanne Gray (Cambridgeshire County Council) and Michelle Lord (Cambridge City Council).

Cost: Free