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  • Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019: full programme announced!

    Glasgow Short Film Festival is delighted to announce the line-up for our twelfth edition. Highlights include art collective Soda_Jerk with the Scottish premiere of their revisionist satire on Australian history TERROR NULLIUS, a trawl through the archives of Scottish short film scheme First Reels, which marked the big breaks of Peter Mullan and David Mackenzie, the world premiere…

  • GSFF 2019 Competition Selection Announced

    Drawn from over 1700 submissions, Glasgow Short Film Festival is delighted to announce the line-up for the 2019 Scottish Short Film Award sponsored by Blazing Griffin, and for the 2019 Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film. 26 countries are represented in 54 films. Combined, the selection includes four World Premieres, two International Premieres, one European Premiere, 21 UK…

  • GSFF18 Award Winners Announced

    The award-winning films at the eleventh annual Glasgow Short Film Festival were announced last night at the festival’s closing party at festival hub Civic House. The awards celebrate the best in Scottish and international filmmaking talent at Scotland’s largest annual celebration of short film. The prestigious Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film – named…

  • Borscht Diez: “While the Miami of beach, boobs and blow definitely exists, it isn’t our experience.”

    As Hurricane Irma sweeps through Florida, we witness the devil-may-care attitude of Miamians, responding to rising sea levels with both defiance and a certain stoic acceptance. Our upcoming screening of films by Miami’s Borscht Corporation, billed as coming from the “underwater ruins of the old human city known as Miami” exemplifies that outlook, whilst increasingly seeming less…

  • GSFF17 awards announced

    The competition winners of the tenth annual Glasgow Short Film Festival have been announced. At a packed ceremony at the city’s newest venue, Joytown Grand Electric Theatre, it was revealed that Jasper Coppes’s Flow Country was named winner of the Scottish Short Film Award, sponsored by Blazing Griffin. The Dutch-born filmmaker, a former student at Glasgow School of Art,…

  • Highlights GSFF Day Three: An Evening With Bukowski

    On Friday night we presented the UK premiere of You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski. This special event included live readings from Tam Dean Burn and poets Stephen Watt and Nisha Bhakoo as well as live sets from Chrissy Barnacle and purveyors of ‘doom wop’, Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lockpickers.  Photo Credit: Eoin Carey More photos…

  • Highlights GSFF17 Day Two

    On day two of GSFF17 we saw the launch of our VR Movie House, the beginning of our Scottish and International Competitions, part one of the Filmmaker-In-Focus: Gunhild Enger programme and the wonderfully entertaining When I Say Vagina… event in our new venue Joytown Grand Electric Theatre. We also welcomed our youngest GSFF guests to our Short Stuff Parent and Baby screening. …

  • Opening night: 10th Anniversary Shorts

    The opening of the 10th Glasgow Short Film Festival kicked off last night, with nine films handpicked from each previous GSFF editions. Festival Director Matt Lloyd welcomed guests and was soon joined onstage by GSFF Founder, Rosie Crerar to say a few brief words and cut the birthday cake. Not only was there cake, but thanks to our sponsors, there was lovely Brooklyn Brewery Beer and…

  • 10th Anniversary: Looking Back With Our Contributors part 3

    To mark the tenth anniversary of GSFF, we’ve carried out a series of interviews with some of our many volunteers, staff members and other contributors over the years, asking them for their most memorable festival films and moments. In this final instalment we spoke with: Morvern Cunningham, GSFF Volunteer 2012, GSFF Festival Coordinator 2013-2015, GSFF Events Manager 2016, GSFF Event Producer 2017.  Julie Cathcart, Head of Communications…

  • Scottish Short Film Award Sponsor: Blazing Griffin

    Here at GSFF we’re incredibly excited to present the new Scottish Short Film Award Sponsor for our 10th edition, Blazing Griffin!   “Short form screen content is a vitally important part of developing both filmmakers and the industry, and so we are delighted to be supporting Scottish new talent by sponsoring the Scottish Short Film Award at…