The Strawberry Fair Short Film Festival 2009

The Strawberry Fair Short Film Festival 2009 was part of the Arts Area of Strawberry Fair, and ran on the afternoon and evening of Friday the 5th of June and from midday until 6pm on Saturday the 6th of June. On the Friday the festival was in the Big Top Tent situated just next to the Arts Area and on the Saturday we were in the Film Tent situated in the Arts Area of Strawberry Fair itself.

On both Friday and Saturday the festival were absolutely free and we screened great short films from local and not so local filmmakers. On the Friday evening we screened a competitive programme to find the Best New Local Filmmaker with both a Jury and Audience Award. For the 2009 festival we were overwhelmed with superb short films, competition for the coveted La fraise d'Or was fierce and both the Audience and Jury winners were screened the next night (Saturday 6th June) as part of Future Shorts at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.

Awards

This years jury consisted of Clare Leczycki: Cinema Programmer Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, Nigel Cutting: Head of Arts & Entertainment for Cambridge City Council and Thierry Bonnaud: one of the founders of The Cambridge Super 8 International Film Festival

The unanimous winner of the Jury Award was Helen Johnson and Tom McPhee for Factotum.

The winner of the Audience Award was Simon Panrucker for Silence.

Programmes

This year we had three very special 'Best Of' short film programmes. On Friday afternoon we have the Best of The Cambridgeshire Young Peoples Film Festival, and The Best Of Funky Flamingo TV and on Saturday we have The Best of Cambridge International Super 8 2008. These film programmes are packed to bursting with funny, inventive and unusual short films, and its all free!

Check out the full programme for the Strawberry Fair Film Festival 2009 to see what you missed! Theres a Facebook Group and the curious can still read about last years film festival.

Thanks

The Strawberry Fair Film Festival would like to thank the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse and Cambridge Film Trust, Hughes of Burleigh Street and Future Shorts for their support. We also wish to thank Eric LeVin for his invaluable technical assistance during the festival.

The Film Festival Operatives

The Film Festival is looked after by Simon Mullen, the star of this film directed by award winning local filmmaker Thierry Bonnaud.

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