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Life Cycles (Shorts In Support)
Ross Hogg | 2016 | 4 min | Animation | N/C 15+ An observational exploration of routine, monotony, attention and distraction. Will we continue to let events pass us by uncontested, or will we decide to break the cycle? Ross Hogg is an award-winning animation filmmaker based in Edinburgh. Having graduated from Glasgow School of Art…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Filmmaker-in-focus: Gunhild Enger
Filmmaking is an illness. I wish I didn’t have this condition, but I have to make these films – you can’t get away from yourself. Gunhild Enger, Filmmaker in Focus. Gunhild Enger has been making short films in the UK, Sweden and her native Norway for more than a decade. She brings an honesty and…
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When I Say Vagina…
When I Say Vagina is a short film programme exploring female body image, masturbation, sexual oppression, social expectations, empowerment, friendship, and talking vaginas. Programmer Sanne Jehoul talks lady bits, muffins, beavers, flowers, tacos, cooches, bearded clams, honeypots, pussies, love boxes, cherries, and pink canoes. Credit where credit’s due: the seed for this programme was planted when a good pal and friend-of-GSFF, Rosa Downing, drew my…
