Film Trust Blog

As a festive treat, we’re presenting free screenings in an empty shopfront in 5 All Saints’ Passage in our historic city centre starting Tuesday 15 December.

Our specially curated programme, compiled by local students at Long Road Sixth Form College, includes clips from Christmas classics and archive gems courtesy of Screen East’s cross-Channel Digital Heritage project.

Christmas Past

One of the highlights is ‘Christmas Past’, a compilation of home movies showing how Christmas has been celebrated in East Anglia from the 1930s to the 1960s. Filmed in colour and black and white, it’s a selection box of real life Christmas stories drawn from family collections preserved at the East Anglian Film Archive.

To find out more, download the Christmas Past Information Sheet (PDF) or contact Jane Jarvis from Screen East. You can also visit the Screen East website.

Image courtesy of East Anglian Film Archive

Changing Spaces

These screenings are a continuation of our People’s Cinema project, launched in June in the former Habitat building on Fitzroy Street.  They are part of Changing Spaces, a groundbreaking city centre initiative aimed at creatively enhancing our high streets.

You can download a Changing Spaces map (PDF) showing the units currently being used as part of the project. Our unit is number 3 on the map next to the Cambridge Cheese Company.

Special thanks to

The Cambridge Film Trust would also like to thank St John’s College, University of Cambridge; Savills and Park Circus Films for their kind support.