Film in Glasgow

Friday 8 April 2011

Source Code

Here is the trailer for new film Source Code, released this week starring Jake Gyllenhaal. An action thriller centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

Showing at cinemas across Glasgow and the UK!

Nicola Jane Black - Scottish Director

Nicola Black was born in Glasgow, and is a Scottish film and television producer and director. Her work falls mainly with Channel 4, producing and directing documentaries and short films for the Channel 4 'Banned' season.
She began her career as a trainee editor, and has worked her way to setting up her own production company, Blackwatch Media in 1995. Her first production was a documentary on the crime writer James Ellroy's search for his mother's murderer, White Jazz.
In the early 2000's, Black produced and directed a series of documentaries for Channel 4 including 'Designer Vaginas' (2002), 'Bone Breakers' (2002), 'When Freddie Met Kenny' (2002), 'Snorting Coke With The BBC' (2003), Banned in the UK and Banned Films.
Since 2001, she ran and produced Channel 4's digital animation scheme Mesh, producing four digital animations a year.
In 2007, Black produced Potapych: The Bear Who Loved Vodka, which won a BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Animated Film.

For more information, search her on google or wikipedia!

NEDS - produced in Glasgow

Here is the trailer for the film 'NEDS' which was produced and filmed in Glasgow. It highlights life in Glasgow for young people, and the hostility of the inner-city environment.

Glasgow Film Festival Photos

Crew member

Glasgow Film Festival

Some guests at the 'You Instead' premiere

Festival Breakfast

Performers at the closing party

Thursday 7 April 2011

Glasgow Film Festival

The Glasgow Film Festival is fast becoming more prominent in today's film scene, showcasing the best of international and Scottish cinema. The festival offers screenings, lectures, discussions, festivals within the festival, workshops and the chance to meet filmmakers from Scotland and around the world. The festival took place 17th to 27th February,

It notibly joined with Belfast Film Festival, to show Tales From The Shipyard, a rare collection of archive films from Belfast and Glasgow's shipbuilding heritage. The Glasgow showings took place on the 29th March, and included the only film directed by legendary actor Sean Connery. The Bowler and The Bunnet was made for Scottish Television in 1967 and looks at the role of the unions within the industry in Scotland. Scottish Screen Archive has also restored dramatic footage from 1936 of the Queen Mary leaving the Clyde.

The festival ran many free events, including 'Glasgow, I Love You', 'FilmCamp' and 'Scotland Directs' among others. 'Glasgow, I Love You' was held in Glasgow School of Art on 17th February and was a programme of shirt films produced by students from Glasgow's universities, and showed how Glasgow is a source of inspiration and highlights it as a good location for films. 'FilmCamp' was on Friday 18th February and was named an 'un-conference', encouraging those who attended to develop and share ideas on digital innovation and the moving image. This day of workshops focused on filmmaking and cross-media practice, led by experts in the media and film field. 'Sotland Directs' was held on Saturday 19th February and was introduced by BBC Scotland as a yearlong scheme encouraging and celebrating new talent in Scottish directing talent. Led by a panel of top directors, it allowed people to go along and discuss directing for television and the transition from short film making.
For more information and other free events visit the 'Free Events' section on their website.

Glasgow Film Festival also held festivals within the festival, for more information visit the GFF website 'Festivals within the festival'

Hope you enjoyed the festival if you attended and if you didn't, there's always next year!

Gerard Butler

Born in Paisley, it's safe to say that Gerard Butler is one of the more famous actors to come out of Glasgow. Having starred in some of the most remembered films in British cinema, including 'PS I Love You' and 'Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life', and appeared in Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'The Phantom of the Opera', it is no surprise that he is becoming increasingly popular, especially with the ladies! His good looks had him voted most attracitve man of 2005 by Hello! Magazine, and he was once rumoured to be the next James Bond, (2001) after Pierce Brosnan. He was also voted number 10 in Empire Magazine's 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.

Gerard Butler graduated from the University of Glasgow with a law degree, but gave up on that career after being fired from a law firm just one week before he was qualified to practice law. Whilst in training to be a lawyer, he was the lead singer for a Scottish rock band named Speed. A good all rounder eh?

Gerard's film debut was as Billy Connolly's younger brother in Mrs. Brown (1997). While filming the movie in Scotland, he was enjoying a picnic with his mother, near the River Tay, when they heard the shouts of a young boy who had been swimming with a friend who was in some trouble. Butler jumped in and saved the young boy from drowning. He received a Certificate of Bravery from the Royal Humane Society. It seems there is no end to this man's talents!

For more information visit IMDB's page on him, where you can find quotes and other film trivia, or if you fancy something more factual, visit his wikipedia page for background and career info!

Here are some more pictures, just incase one wasn't enough! :)