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Announcing the GSFF22 Competition Titles
We are thrilled to announce that the 15th edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival will be returning to venues, 23-27 March 2022. That means we’ll be running in person for the first time since 2019! Get ready for a jam-packed programme, taking place across Civic House, Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) and the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA). And for those of us who…
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2021: Where Did That Go?
If 2020 was – for film festivals and exhibitors – about learning new digital skills, rethinking engagement with our audiences and reinforcing networks of support, 2021 has mostly been about treading water, waiting for the vaccine to allow us to return to some form of business as usual, enhanced by these newfound engagement tools, and…
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Announcing Glasgow Short Film Festival’s 2021 award winners
The award winners of the 14th edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival were announced on Sunday 28 August during the festival’s online Closing Ceremony hosted by Jonathan Watson. The festival itself beat all previous attendance figures, with approximately 5,800 viewers in attendance, or 150 viewers per programme. The Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film winner was decided…
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Barbed Wire Love Roundtable – GSFF21 Podcast: Episode 11
Writer and curator Sara Greavu leads a discussion with Barbed Wire Love strand curators Peter Taylor and Myrid Carten, and filmmakers Mariah Garnett (Trouble), Desmond Bell (Dancing on Narrow Ground) and Margo Harkin (Hush-a-Bye Baby).
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Festival Preview – GSFF21 Podcast: Episode 10
The GSFF team discuss the fourteenth edition of the festival, whilst guest curators Natasha Ruwona (Black Spacial Imaginaries), Peter Taylor and Myrid Carten (Barbed Wire Love), Jessica McGoff (Big Dog Energy) and Sean Welsh (The Three Worlds of Nick) talk about the strands they have programmed this year.
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No New Normal: Absurdity of Labour, Monitored & Alt Worlds
WFH FTW! Not really though, but while everyone in makeshift office set-ups at home, navigating family, flatmates and/or loneliness, will have had a hard time over the last year, it is nothing compared to the many who were forced to go into work in unsafe conditions due to the UK government’s failures and warped priorities,…
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Barbed Wire Love: Artists, Filmmakers and their North of Ireland Troubles
Fifty-three years since the commencement of Northern Ireland’s Troubles, Barbed Wire Love presents intimate tales from those who stayed, those who left and those who passed through. Sisters and brothers, those who danced at raves, those who had good intentions and those who did not. Chance encounters, intimate first-person cinema and the unreliability of history…
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Hush-A-Bye Baby
Goretti, Majella, Sinead and Dinky are four school friends living in the catholic ghettos of the Bogside and Creggan estates in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1984. At the age of 15 they are full of youthful exuberance and boys feature largely in their interests. When Goretti meets Ciarán at an Irish language class a romance…
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Mahdi Fleifel and Laura Rantanen – GSFF21 Podcast: Episode 9
Laura Rantanen, the recipient of the 2019 Bill Douglas Award, talks to 2020 Bill Douglas Award winner, Danish-Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel about his film 3 Logical Exits.
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Laura Rantanen and Pamela Pianezza – GSFF21 Podcast: Episode 8
French multimedia artist and visual arts teacher Pamela Pianezza talks to 2019 Bill Douglas Award winner, Finnish documentary filmmaker Laura Rantanen about her filmLiminality & Communitas.
