Glasgow Short Film Festival invites cinemas, film societies and other exhibitors to enhance their programme by screening recent Scottish and international short films before features this Autumn and Winter.
The supporting short film has been all but lost from film exhibition, yet there is a wealth of emerging film talent that deserves to be seen on the big screen and – who knows – might be behind the features of tomorrow. After a successful revival of our Shorts in Support scheme last year, GSFF are delighted to grow our offering to Scottish cinemas and film societies for the upcoming cycle with a diverse slate of twenty-four shorts to screen before features. Participating venues will be able to introduce the work of exciting upcoming Scottish and international filmmakers to a wider audience, broadening their programme and generating dialogue between short and feature.
The slate includes fiction, documentary, and animation, with durations ranging from 2 to 9 minutes to allow for a range of programming contexts. Alongside sixteen new titles we have brought back eight popular films from previous years of the scheme. The catalogue includes a pair of animations made by the participants of our animation workshops run by Ross Hogg at HMP & YOI Polmont, which won a prestigious Koestler Award for arts in criminal justice.
Recommended certificates are provided, and we have included a couple of titles suitable for the youngest cinema-goers.
Venue programmers are free to choose which short they wish to screen alongside which new release feature, making this a collaborative curatorial process. The shorts are listed below and we have included theme and genre tags. We are happy to provide help or guidance with pairing suggestions, and we can provide captions for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing audiences as required. Many thanks go to Matchbox Cineclub for creating the captions.
For more information, please download the catalogue, or email oisin.kealy@glasgowshort.org.
Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, awarding funds from Screen Scotland and National Lottery funding from the BFI.