Editor-in-Chief | Rosy Hunt |
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Managing Editor | Jim Ross |
Categories | Online & Print magazine |
First issue | 2011 |
Country | Great Britain |
Based in | Cambridge |
Language | English |
Website | takeonecinema |
TAKE ONE is a British online film magazine published in Cambridge. It was founded in 2011 as the official magazine of Cambridge Film Festival, [1] covering general release of independent and arthouse cinema [2] and films from various film festivals, [3] [4] [5] publishing reviews and interviews [6] [7] with directors and other people associated with those films. [8] At festivals, hard copies of the magazine are also often printed and circulated. [9] It additionally offers "full, comprehensive coverage" of Cambridge Film Festival. [10]
Since 2017, TAKE ONE has sent students of Anglia Ruskin University to Cannes Film Festival to complete coverage of the festival as part of their coursework, with this scheme expanding to Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2019. [11] [12] Since 2018, TAKE ONE have been official media partners of the Edinburgh Short Film Festival. [13]
Every year, TAKE ONE hand out the 'TAKE ONE Awards' in various categories.
Best Feature | Best Documentary | Best Short | Best Festival | |
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2011 [14] | Drive | The Last Projectionist | Mwansa the Great | Brighton |
2012 [15] | Nairobi Half Life | 5 Broken Cameras | Bobby Yeah | Cambridge African |
2013 [16] | For Those In Peril | The Lebanese Rocket Society | Just Before Losing Everything | Sheffield Doc/Fest |
2014 [17] | Violet | The Possibilities Are Endless | My Stuffed Granny | Tribeca |
2015 [18] | Dheepan | Poached | Stryka | Watersprite |
2016 [19] | Bodkin Ras | Around China With A Movie Camera | Juliette | Norwich |
2017 [20] | Raw | Queerama | Salt & Sauce | Underwire |
2018 [21] | Calibre | Nae Pasaran | The Wider Sun | Edinburgh Short Film Festival |
2019 [22] | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Varda by Agnès | Imbued Life | Glasgow |
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