The 2011 Cambridge Film Festival continues
The 2011 Cambridge Film Festival continues with a busy schedule of special events, guest filmmakers and actors and premiers. Here's a roundup of what's been happening over the last couple of days.
Director Ana Garcia came to Cambridge to present her documentary about Gibraltarian national identity, Gibraltar:
Nicolas Winding Refn, winner of the 'Best Director' award at this year's Cannes film festival, arrived in Cambridge for a special preview screening of Drive. No, he didn't smile while he was here, although we did get to hear some interesting stories during his Q&A session about telepathy and fetishes:
Director Juanito Wilson brought her hard-hitting film, As If I Am Not There:
...and Nocern Collado was here with Cartography of Loneliness:
On a lighter note, Neil Brand and Jeff Davenport came to Cambridge for a reprise of their new, live soundtrack for the Douglas Fairbanks Robin Hood, preceded by a grand dinner for attendees at Trinity College:
Neil Brand stayed on for another day to talk about composer Bernard Hermann:
Emmanuel College is being a used a lot by the festival this year, including for yesterday's ICO panel discussion:
Continuing this year's strong theme of showing documentaries, Frank Piasecki Poulsen brought his film about mining in The Democratic Republic of Congo, Blood in the Mobile:
One British film with a great buzz around it this year has been alternate history thriller Resistance. Here's director Amit Gupta:
Last night's big event was Mark Kermode's visit to promote his new book, The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex:
