Presented by the Cambridge Film Trust and now in its 38th year, the Cambridge Film Festival celebrates cinematography, past, present and future, to relive previous glories, share what’s happening in film today, and reveal the upcoming talents that will shape the future of cinema. In partnership with Cambridge Assessment, the Family Film Festival strand at the Arts Picturehouse delivers films in a friendly environment to give families plenty of opportunities to get involved in the Festival.
On Sunday 28th October, our Programme and the Department of Biochemistry joined the Family Film Festival for their family-themed short films with hands-on activities based around DNA; the molecule of inheritance. Throughout the morning, young film lovers took on the role of a scientist to extract DNA from strawberries, learn about genes, and create their own mutatable double-stranded DNA bracelets to find out how mutations can lead to cancer.
We would like to thank the Festival organisers for giving us the opportunity to take part in an extremely enjoyable day, our volunteers for making our activities possible, and everyone who came out to visit us!
