Important Message

The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival is the film festival of the Arts Area of Strawberry Fair. It has run as part of Strawberry Fair since 2001, but this year Strawberry Fair has been stopped.

However we still anticipate running The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival later this year. We will post the details here, as we get them.

In the meantime we will be running the Strawberry Shorts Film Marquee @ Fordham Fest on the 6th, 7th and 8th of August. We will be screening 175 of the very best and the latest short films from all over the world, with filmmaker Q&A's.

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.

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( NOTE: Strawberry Fair has now been been stopped), 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.

Check out our old festival trailer on the right. This trailer was made before this years Strawberry Fair was stopped, so some of the dates it gives are a bit out of date now!

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 and has been held annually on Midsummer Common in Cambridge UK, on the first Saturday in June for the last 37 years. The fair is run by a voluntary committee of local people and accepts no commercial sponsorship.

Film Submission

Film submission is now closed for the 2010 festival.

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.

• The Strawberry Shorts Film Marquee @
  Fordham Fest 6th, 7th and 8th of August

  

  Over three days we will be screening 176 of the very best and latest short films from all over the world, in The Strawberry Shorts Film Marquee @ Fordham Fest. Check out the full running order.

  As well as short film screening, we wil have Q&A's with a selection of talented professional filmmakers. The filmmakers will introduce their films and following the screening we will hold a Q&A which will be open to the public.

  This is set to be the most awesome short film binge in the whole of cambridgeshire for this year. If you love short films, get on down to Fordham Fest on the 6th, 7th and 8th of August.

• Strawberry Shorts
  @ The Arts Picturehouse Cambridge
  Friday the 26th of February
  9pm for 9:30pm

  

  This was a night of short films about Strawberry Fair from the last 40 year.

  The film screening was preceded by a Potted History of Strawberry Fair by Strawberry Fair Arts Area supremo John Clements

  After the screening we had a Q&A with the Justin Argent the chair of the Strawberry Fair committee 2010.

  Check out the blog for both talks and watch all the films we screened, online.

• 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!

The Film Festival Operatives

The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival committee is chaired by Simon Mullen, the star of this film directed by award winning local filmmaker Thierry Bonnaud.

For any film festival enquires please email