Projects.

World War 2 Reminscence Project

Demi & Jasmines Kitchen

A mock instructional film made as part of the Intergenerational Project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Made by Peter Harmer

It's a Small Task to Carry a Gas Mask

A mock Gas Mask instructional film made as part of the Intergenerational Project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Made by Peter Harmer

Animation with Primary School Children in East Anglia

The Tortoises' Idea

A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium (Arts Council funded) film produced by a primary school in East Anglia led by professional filmmakers and composers. Supported by Parkside Community College, Cambridge.

Animation with Primary School Children in East Anglia

Forgotten Girlhood

A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium film from an Arts Council funded Experimental Video Art Workshop. Spring 2006.

Made by Trisha Maccrae

Buried

The Tortoises' Idea

Made by Oscar Forshaw-Swift, Ed Stubbs, Bart Vautraves, Alex Otley, Ben Abbott, James Welch, Mike Emra & Angus Crawley-King.

On the 25th of July 2009, the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium held a Movie Making for Beginners Workshop as an event part of the London 2012 Open Weekend Camridgeshire and Peterborough. The Children had to Plan and Shoot a 1 Minute film in 2 hours.

The "Making Of" video shows the kids planning, directing, using cameras and microphones to make their stories.

Take 1

Film-makers: Emily Marty, Pascal Dillabough, Edo Spigel-Emmerich, Xander Brett, Max Bishop, James Clarke, Charlie Slater, Jake Jupp, Miles Smith & Jasper Alport.

The Making of Take 1

Workshop led by Ryd Cook
Camerawork by Ryd Cook, Trish Sheil, and Gertrud Hill.

Edit by Ryd Cook

In February 2009 Peter Harmer and Alex Curtis led a Monsters On Film workshop. Kids were tasked with using special effects to make Monsters out of each other. They then created a short film involving their horrible creations!

Top of the Chain

The Lift

Zombie Bus Stop

Sarah Gibson led a film-making workshop called We Are Detectives in February 2009. Kids brought in their spy and detective props and created and story for their film. They went on to shoot the film using digital cameras and microphones. 2 films were made over 2 days.

Murder at the Cinema!

The Many Murders of Maximillian

In May 2009 Tom Martin led an I Present workshop. Kids learnt the skills of being a TV presenter and then went on to create their own TV Shows with digital video equipment.

113 O'Clock News

In May 2009 Peter Harmer and Alex Curtis led a Monsters On Film workshop. Kids were tasked with using special effects to make Monsters out of each other. They then created a short film involving their horrible creations!

War of the Monsters

To see the world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower
To hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour

(William Blake)

From July 2007-July 2008 The Cambridgeshire Film Consortium (CFC) organised Grains of Sand a county-wide film competition on the theme of climate change for young people aged 8-21 years with associated screenings and events throughout the year. It culminated on Friday 13 June 2008 at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse with a screening of the young people’s films and the awarding of prizes.

Yesterday's Tomorrow

By Dominique D-Lefebvre, Maxim Thompson, Mariam Sotudeh

This film was entered for the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium Grains of Sand Climate Change film Competition 2008.

It won the Screen East Prize Runner Up.
Age Category: 12-15

The Threatened Fens

By Ben Chance.

This film was entered for the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium Grains of Sand Climate Change film Competition 2008.

It won the CFC Prize For Individual Entry.

Age Category: 8-11

The aim of the competition was to raise young people's awareness of the impact of climate change, to encourage sustainability in their lifestyles and to enable them to voice their opinions through practical film production projects, inspired education screenings and the chance to enter a film competition.

MKTV Climate News

By Mayfield Primary class 3V

The Last Iceberg

By Pascal Dillabough, Leo Peabody, Cole Sansom, Sam Chittock, Harry Cowper, Rose Last and Joe Maddocks

The project provided an exhibition platform for their films at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, the Cambridge Film Festival and the Cambidgeshire Film Consortium website With the support of Cambridge University Climate Programme for Industry the CFC provided film production and science-based support to the participating schools, colleges, universities and youth arts groups who expressed an interest in the competition. E.g the CFC facilitated filmmakers, sound artists, editors, animators and climate scientists visits to schools, and holiday film production workshops at venues such as British Antarctic Survey, Scott Polar Research Institute and Kettles Yard, and across Cambridgeshire with youth groups such as Fenland Arts and colleges such as Longsands in St Neots using cameras and editing software funded by a Cambridge City Council Sustainable City Grant, facilities at Anglia Ruskin University, and funding from Cambridgeshire County Council.

The CFC also organised In-Service training for primary school teachers in collaboration with Parkside Media Specialist College to support primary school animation film projects for the Grains of Sand competition.

Pollution Solution

By Mayfield Primary class 3V

The Story of the Last Tree

By Pascal Dillabough, Leo Peabody, Cole Sansom, Sam Chittock, Harry Cowper, Rose Last and Joe Maddocks

The CFC organised linked screenings and debates at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse e.g in collaboration with Cambridge University Science week March 10-22, we saw

• a panel debate on Climate Change led by Tony Juniper from Friends of the Earth followed by a High Definition screening of EARTH;
• a schools/college event on the ethics of climate change with guests including young filmmaker Alex Randall introducing his film CHEAT NEUTRAL;
• A primary school screening of a subtitled 2003 French animation film LA PHROPHETIE DES GRENOUILLES (RAINING CATS AND FROGS) directed by Jacques-Remy Girerd was introduced by a guest scientist talking on climate change and flooding.

Footprints

By Beatrix Houston-Black, Emily Knott, Miles Smith, Hannah Goldsmith, Joseph Moore, Joel Ball and Seth Broadbent

Partners/Sponsors of the Project

• Cambridge University Programme for Industry: providing links to scientists, business leaders, speakers for events at the cinema
• Cambridge University Press: In kind printing of first run of competition leaflets
• Cambridge University Active Community Fund: Funding
• Anglia Television: ITV Local - media coverage, website space for films, prizes for the competition and film production support through speakers at film education events
• Cambridgeshire County Council: Funding
• Cambridge City Council: Sustainable City – funding
• HSBC
• Cambridge Building Society
• FDMX