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ActNowFilm

27 Nov 2023

Youth leaders and world figures featured in new ActNowFilm, to premiere at COP28 call for young people to be included in national climate negotiation...

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Cinema has helped 'entrench' gender inequality in AI

13 Feb 2023

Study finds that just 8% of all depictions of AI professionals from a century of film are women – and half of these are shown as subordinate to men.

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Disaster at 37,000 feet

06 Jan 2020

Cambridge University Library archive reveals the facts behind the Hollywood myths of 'The Aeronauts'

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‘The greatest director in the world right now’ begins residency at Centre for Film and Screen

04 May 2018

One of Argentina’s and Latin America’s pre-eminent filmmakers begins a 16-day residency at Cambridge’s Centre for Film and Screen from tomorrow (May...

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Still from Fire at Sea, the Oscar-nominated documentary by Gianfranco Rosi

Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker comes to Cambridge

09 May 2017

Hailed as “one of the most important artists in any medium”, the award-winning and Oscar-nominated Italian documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi is...

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Life and death

Questions of life and death

04 Nov 2016

An ambitious seminar series began last week with a discussion of a remarkable documentary. Filmed in a pioneering hospice, The Time to Die addresses...

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Screenshots from D.W. Griffith’s The Lonely Villa (1909)

Grand designs: the role of the house in American film

27 May 2016

It’s black and white, silent and just short of ten minutes in length. But D.W. Griffith’s 1909 classic The Lonely Villa inspired Dr John David Rhodes...

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How real is the science in Star Wars?

18 Dec 2015

The anticipation is over: The Force Awakens is with us. To a self-confessed geek like Karen Yu from the Institute for Manufacturing, this is like all...

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Still image from the Ukrainian documentary 'Twilight'

Bringing Ukraine to the screen

06 Nov 2015

Over the past eight years, the University of Cambridge has become Britain’s pre-eminent showcase for documentary and feature films from and about...

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Stills from the Kendall III film

A glimpse of India

26 Oct 2015

Kevin Greenbank, archivist at the Centre of South Asian Studies, explores the ways in which the home movie offers fascinating insights into the lives...

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Academy Award Winner

70 years of Cambridge at the Oscars

24 Feb 2015

As Eddie Redmayne brings home an Academy Award for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in the film Theory of Everything we've started to check the...

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The view from the top of the stands of Lee Valley VeloPark, London.

Sports calibrated

06 Feb 2015

New methods of gathering quantitative data from video – whether shot on a mobile phone or an ultra-high definition camera – may change the way that...

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