The Strawberry Shorts 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 was 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 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.

NOTE: In 2010 the film festival changed its name from The Strawberry Fair Film Festival to The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival. This was to mark the formation of a new film festival committee.

Awards

The 2009 jury for the Best Local Filmmaker competitive programme consisted of:

• Clare Leczycki: Cinema Programmer Cambridge Arts Picturehouse [at the time of the 2009 film festival]
• Nigel Cutting: Head of Arts & Entertainment for Cambridge City Council [at the time of the 2009 film festival] 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.

The full list of films screened in the Best Local Filmmaker competitive programme is avalable here.

Programmes

For the 2009 festival we had three very special Best Of short film programmes.

On Friday afternoon we had the Best of The Cambridgeshire Young Peoples Film Festival, and The Best Of Funky Flamingo TV

On Saturday we had The Best of Cambridge International Super 8 2008.

All these film programmes are packed to bursting with funny, inventive and unusual short films, and its all free!

Check out the full 2009 programme for the Strawberry Fair Film Festival 2009 to see what you missed! Also check out the 2008 film festival.

Thanks

The Strawberry Fair Film Festival 2009 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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