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Please leave your phones *on*! Announcing some GSFF20 special events
Film festivals are usually very strict about phones being turned off during screenings. Not this time. GSFF today announces its 2020 opening event, the Scottish premiere of live expanded cinema performance My First Film by Zia Anger, which opens with the filmmaker, seated amongst the audience, requesting via onscreen text that phones should be kept on. Anger…
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2019: GSFF’s Year in Review
2019 has been a turbulent but exciting year for GSFF. We hit our highest attendance at the 12th edition of the festival in March, were inexplicably named one of the 25 coolest film festivals in the world in July, and left the warmth of our home in the Glasgow Film family in September, striking out into the…
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Opportunity: Join the GSFF20 team!
Film Hub Scotland New Promoters Scheme Do you have a passion for film? Would you like to gain paid experience in film exhibition? Then the Film Hub Scotland New Promoters Scheme could be for you. Film Hub Scotland is offering an exciting training opportunity for people who’d like to better understand how to programme films…
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Glasgow Short Film Festival goes independent
Scotland’s flagship short film event announces an exciting new chapter. After twelve happy years within the Glasgow Film family, GSFF is stepping out as an independent charitable organisation. The first edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival took place over a weekend during the 2008 Glasgow Film Festival. Since then GSFF has successfully run as a…
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GSFF named one of 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World
We are thrilled, humbled and more than a little surprised to find Glasgow Short Film Festival included on US magazine MovieMaker’s list of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World in 2019. The list, which the magazine publishes each summer, is compiled by a panel of industry insiders focusing primarily on US and Canadian events. This…
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Award-winners announced for Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019
The award-winners at the 12th annual Glasgow Short Film Festival have been announced. The winners were revealed at the closing ceremony at Civic House last night, along with the festival audience’s selection of their own favourite shorts. Decided by an international jury made up of Jacopo Chessa, director of Torino Short Film Market, French curator and…
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Interview: Arianna Lodeserto, The Houses We Were (Italy)
Ahead of her film The Houses We Were, screening as part of the Bill Douglas International Competition, GSFF spoke to award-winning filmmaker and photographer Arianna Lodeserto about her use of archival footage, gentrification and the effects of capitalism on urban environments. A lot of your work tends to focus on urban environments. What is it you find…
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Memories of First Reels
First Reels (1991–1999) was the first of the short film production schemes introduced by the Scottish Film Council (later Scottish Screen), in partnership with Scottish Television. It was launched with the aim of giving aspiring filmmakers the means to embark on – or complete – their first project. Whilst giving talents such as David Mackenzie…
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Interview: Martina Juncadella, director of I Don’t See Myself Being Old
GSFF speaks to actor, writer and director Martina Juncadella about her film I Don’t See Myself Being Old. Having previously won ‘Best Short Film’ at the 2017 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema for her short Fiora, Juncadella’s newest film follows Jaki, a poet in her mid-twenties who lives with her parents and sells Knishes. This…
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Interview: Slava Doytcheva, director of Whole
Actor and director Slava Doytcheva talks to Glasgow Short Film Festival about her latest film Whole, telling the story of a young, closeted woman who attends a traditional Bulgarian family wedding. Whole is a well-observed drama, placing the audience in the head of a protagonist experiencing one of the most formative moments of her life. What inspired you to…
