About the Trust

Cambridge Film Trust was launched in 2006 as a charity aiming to support and promote the film festival and film culture in Cambridge. Its primary activity is currently the operation of Cambridge Film Festival.
 

The Trust and the Festival

Cambridge Film Festival was established in 1977 and ran until 1996, re-launching in 2001 after a five year break. Over the years it has developed into a high profile event with a reputation as one of the UK’s most prestigious and well-respected film festivals.

The Festival’s original home was the much loved single-screen Arts Cinema in Cambridge city centre’s Market Passage, where it quickly developed from modest beginnings to become an important date in the international film festival calendar which would draw broad audiences from across the region and beyond.

The Festival was originally conceived with a two-fold purpose: as a means of screening the very best of current international cinema; and to rediscover important but neglected film-makers and their films, which were either out of distribution or unseen for many years. The Festival is now operated by the charitable Cambridge Film Trust, which was formed for this purpose in July 2007; the Festival is the highlight of a year-round programme which champions independent cinema by presenting a broad portfolio of film-related events in Cambridge and across the Eastern region.