Cheap Cuts is an emerging festival dedicated to showcasing the best of British and international short documentary talent. We believe in content over form and are interested in the stories filmmakers have to tell, not the budget or equipment used to do so. Our aim is to create an alternative festival for filmmakers and audiences on a budget. Film can be an extremely inaccessible medium and financially the film industry is one of the most unforgiving around. We believe that filmmaking should be inclusive, not exclusive. Therefore our screenings are free of charge.

With a successful first year of sold out screenings and workshops we are now launching a three-day event full of short documentaries from all over the world, discussion panels on current social issues and practical workshops. Our strengths lie in the variety of our programme, which promotes different approaches to documentary creation including experimental, observational and animation. We aim to choose documentaries that are striving to be creative and unique in their storytelling.

Categories:

• Best British Short Documentary – Awarding the best British director and/or producer.
• Best International Short Documentary – Best non-British director.
• London Emerging – Directors based in London with no other festival film as director.
• Mini-Doc – Best documentary under five minutes.

More information on the Festival website. The full programme is available here.

• Fri 05 May – Doors open 18.00 for a 18.30 start – Directed by women night.
• Sat 06 May – Doors open 10.30 for a 11.00 start – Various strands including London Stories, Innovative Storytelling, Portraits, LGBT and Famous in Ahmedabad (2015).
• Sun 07 May – Doors open 10.30 for a 11.00 start – Various strands including Videocult, Women Directors, Animation, Displaced, Motherhood and Carers.

TICKETS & PRICING

Tickets are FREE, but must be reserved via the Festival Eventbrite page.