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!