Film Trust Blog

The Trust is proud to be a partner of Light Up! Short Film Festival, a showcase of new and emerging talent in short film to be held at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge on 23-24 October 2009.

Three programmes running over the weekend will include BAFTA-winning shorts and the work of regional and debut filmmakers. Admission is completely free of charge and open to all. An Audience Prize will be awarded to the film that is most voted for by  the audience over the course of the three screenings.
The Festival opens at 8.30pm on Friday 24 October with its first screening programme, Short tales of love, loss and dreaming, which presents the BAFTA-winning short, SEPTEMBER, and a range of intelligent, exciting and fast paced narrative shorts.
On Saturday 24 October, Light Up! is delighted to welcome two guest filmmakers to the artist-filmmaker roundtable at 3pm. French-Algerian mixed media artist-filmmaker Zoulikah Bouabdellah is most well-known for her celebrated short, DANSONS, where she explores femininity and marginal identity to the tune of the Marseilleise. The British artist-filmmaker Anna Cady and her collaborator Louisa Malkowski, who has cerebral palsy, have produced a number of experimental shorts about Louisa’s experiences of her own body. The roundtable will offer filmmakers, film researchers and the public the opportunity to discuss the fine line between art practice and film practice, with a drinks reception held afterwards.
At 8.30pm, Screening Programme 2: The Light Fantastic: Experimental and Animated Shorts, promises an exhilarating selection of genre-defying films which range across documentary, animation, experimental and dance performance.

For further details of the programmes, visit the Light Up! website.

All screenings take place at Buckingham House Auditorium, Murray Edwards College.