The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival 2010

The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival is the new incarnation of Strawberry Fairs own short film festival, which has run since 2001.

The film festival is held on Midsummer Common in Cambridge and the 2010 event will be on Friday the 4th and Saturday the 5th of June.

With the 2010 festival we are coming back with a renewed emphasis on supporting local filmmakers and screening the very best new short films from all over the UK, Europe and the World. In keeping with the seismic changes in Strawberry Fair, the film festival has a new organisation of individuals with a passion for short films, dedicated to making The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival one of the best free Cambridge events of the Summer.

At Strawberry Shorts we like to foster a performance element in the proceedings and to this end have been aided over the years by a fantastic crew of performance artists who have taken on the rolls of usherettes, popcorn sellers and the moral majority. Seeing is believing.

The Strawberry Shorts Film Film Festival runs for two days each year, screening programmes bloated with the very latest superb short films. Check out the full details of the programmes we screened in the 2009 film festival and the 2008 film festival.

To keep up to date with The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival and the film screening events we run, join our Facebook Group.

Strawberry Fair is Europe's largest free festivals of music and arts. It is held annually on Midsummer Common in Cambridge UK, on the first Saturday in June. The fair is run by a voluntary committee of local people and accepts no commercial sponsorship.

Film Submission

The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival is looking for short films by local, national and international filmmakers for 2010 film festival, which will be held on Midsummer Common, Cambridge, Friday the 4th and Saturday the 5th of June.

Films can be of any genre but should be less than 20 minutes long. We accept films on DV, Data DVD or DVD. The submissions deadline is noon on Friday the 23rd of April.

There is no fee to submit a film.

To submit films, fill in the submission form and return with films to the address at the bottom of the submission form. For more details on film submission email at .

La fraise d'Or

The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival has a focus on local Cambridgeshire home-grown talent with our Best Local Filmmaker Competitive Programme. We make both an Audience and a Jury award, with the victors receiving a coveted La fraise d'Or.

Although we showcase the work of local filmmakers we very much welcome films from outside our region, bringing the best, the greatest and the latest short films from all over the World to a large, friendly and receptive local audience.

Short Film Screening Events

In the run up to The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival 2010, we will be staging a series of short film events and preview screenings.

Strawberry Shorts
@ The Arts Picturehouse Cambridge
Friday the 26th of February 9pm

The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival presents a free film screening in the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse bar followed by a Q&A with the chair of Strawberry Fair Justin Argent, on Friday the 26th February at 9pm

The programme will consists of a selection of fascinating short films about Strawberry Fair drawn from the last 20 years.

The 2010 Strawberry Fair will see the biggest changes in its programming for 15 years. Justin's Q&A will give you the chance to quiz the Strawberry Fair supremo on these changes and what they will mean.

CALL OUT: People have been making films about Strawberry Fair since there was a Strawberry Fair, over 30 years. Send us your films about Strawberry Fair and we might screen them at Strawberry Shorts @The Arts Picturehouse Cambridge or even at The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival at Strawberry Fair. Mail for more details.

• location: The Arts Picturehouse Cambridge Bar
• date: Friday the 26th of February
• time: 9pm

Cut It Short!
Tuesday the 8th of December 2009 8pm

Check out the blog of Cut It Short!, a film event we ran on Tuesday the 8th of December 2009.

The blog is packed with video of Q&A sessions with fantastic local filmmakers. View the Q&A to find out about the cinematic ambitions of the Midsummer Common Cows, how to store a friends head and what Ken is missing and were he keeps it!