glasgow film annual review 2015

ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 – 2015

CONTENTSWelcome from our CEO Glasgow Film Theatre Glasgow Film Festival Glasgow Short Film Festival Glasgow Youth Film Festival Cargo Camera Action! Jeely Jars and Seeing Stars Exhibition Access Audiences Our Supporters

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Alan Rickman at the Scottish premiere of A Little Chaos at GFF15Photography by: Eoin Carey, Stuart Crawford, Neil Thomas Douglas, Pete Copeland, Ingrid Mur, Jassy Earl & Euan Robertson.

Glasgow Film Annual Review 2014-2015

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WELCOME FROM OUR CEO Glasgow Film, comprising Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Short Film Festival and our Learning and Engagement programme has had another brilliant year.

The annual film festival in February cemented its place as one of the top film festivals in the UK seeing over 40,000 admissions for the second year in a row. Glasgow Short Film Festival made a successful move to March and hit its highest level of admissions yet. Meanwhile, enthusiastic young film-lovers indulged their passion for cinema through the Glasgow Youth Film Festival and the ongoing programming for schools.

The last 12 months have been the first full year for GFT’s new Cinema 3, which is proving to be a fantastically successful development. As well as allowing the film schedule to expand considerably, the new screen has given us the space to launch several exciting Access projects, furthering our remit to provide Cinema For All. Working with Scottish Autism for Access Film Club, and Solar Bear and Film Hub Scotland for Visible Cinema, these initiatives focus on deepening GFT’s engagement with underrepresented groups, sustaining long-term relationships with new audiences and breaking down barriers such as social exclusion through more accessible programming.

We are proud to be one of five Scottish organisations (Glasgow Film, Centre For Moving Image, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Eden Court, Regional Screen Scotland) who have formed Scottish Film, working together to develop Scotland’s moving image cinema infrastructure and provision of moving image education for Scottish children. This has included the establishment of Film Hub Scotland, one of the nine film hubs across the UK that are part of the BFI Film Audience Network, and Scottish Film Education which is working with Into Film to deliver the 5-19 Moving Image Education Programme in Scotland.

Allow me to take the opportunity to recognise and pay tribute to the continued support and vision of our Board of Trustees and to thank each of our supporters, our staff, volunteers and partners for their ongoing commitment to Glasgow Film.

Our achievements in 2014/15 provide the launch pad for our next phase of growth. I am excited to lead the organisation on the implementation of a new strategic plan for 2015-18 and our plans to upgrade the public areas of GFT in 2016. Having been invited to join Creative Scotland’s cohort of regularly funded organisations, and with three year funding confirmed by Glasgow City Council, we are confidently moving into the year ahead as a leader in Scottish cinema programming and exhibition. I look forward to celebrating many successes in the year ahead.

Jaki McDougall Chief Executive of Glasgow Film


2014 was an exciting year for Glasgow Film. As well as being the first full year operating with three screens, it was also a triple anniversary, combining the 10th Glasgow Film Festival, 40 years of GFT and the 75th anniversary of The Cosmo. GFT marked this momentous year by continuing to excel at what it does best, offering a unique programme of cinema for film lovers of all tastes.

GFT began the year by welcoming some famous faces as part of BBC Scotland’s Art Screen festival in April, including Jarvis Cocker, Julien Temple and Kim Longinotto. Glasgow Film Theatre also continued to promote experimental film with its Crossing the Line strand of programming, and teamed up with the newly formed LUX Scotland to deliver a series of artists’ moving image screenings. In January, cult no-wave filmmaker Vivienne Dick visited the venue along with a programme of Irish experimental shorts.

The most popular new releases shown at GFT throughout the year were Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game, David Fincher’s Gone Girl, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman and Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland’s Still Alice. Along with new releases, GFT is also always striving to bring classics back to the big screen, and in June we featured a series of Antiheroes On-Screen. This included a Father’s Day screening of Dirty Harry, along with Kazan’s On the Waterfront, Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge and Mackendrick’s Sweet Smell of Success. Programming also looked further

afield, working with the British Film Institute on a July and August retrospective marking A Century of Chinese Cinema: nine films from throughout the century and a one-day primer course on Chinese cinema, in partnership with Glasgow University Centre for Open Studies.

Closer to home, GFT partnered with Film Hub Scotland on the Scottish-wide season To See Oursels – a series of screenings and discussions looking at Scottish history, culture and identity. Other notable screenings over the summer months included a preview screening of God Help the Girl, the debut film by Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch; an immersive archive screening showing what Wartime Cinema Going would be like and a screening of Bill Bryden’s The Big Picnic, which reunited much of the original cast and crew, including Bryden himself.

Throughout the year Glasgow Film Theatre played host to many exciting live satellite events, broadcast from all over the world right into Glasgow. These included a double-bill of Al Pacino’s Salomé and Wilde Salomé followed by a Q&A with Pacino, and a performance from musician Nick Cave alongside a screening of the documentary 20,000 Days on Earth. Over the winter months GFT took part in the BFI’s national Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder season (see overleaf), welcomed an appearance by the legendary Ray Winstone and featured a Jim Jarmusch retrospective, screening the iconoclastic director’s early works.

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GFT welcomed 188,943 audience members of all ages in 2014-15. Screening 663 films from 43 countries, the programme encompassed everything from the latest independent and world cinema, experimental adventures in film and returning big screen classics.

Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance


Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder

Throughout October, November and December, the British Film Institute (BFI) coordinated a nation-wide season of Science Fiction programming called Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder. Glasgow Film took this opportunity to provide its audiences with an exciting, beguiling and thrilling series of screenings and events. A core screening programme of genre classics was complemented with an immersive Escape from New York Treasure Hunt where audience members followed clues to find the secret cinema location, an in-person event with Jan Harlan (Stanley Kubrick’s producer and right-hand man), and a drag performance screening of camp cult classic Barbarella. Teaming up with partner organisations Africa in Motion and Glasgow Women’s Library, GFT ventured into two more niche strands from the genre; Africa At the Door of the Cosmos focusing on Sci-Fi from the continent of Africa, and Teknowomen, which offered insights into the role of women in Sci-Fi. With adventurous programming, Glasgow Film pushed the boundaries of an already trailblazing genre.

Guests at GFT

Over the year, Glasgow Film Theatre welcomed guest speakers to over 150 screening and events, enhancing audiences’ experience through introductions, Q&As and performances. Notable names amongst these included:

Julien Temple – The seminal filmmaker brought an early preview of his latest film Rio 50 Degrees.

Jarvis Cocker & Martin Wallace – Following a screening of the archive film and music collaboration The Big Melt, the creative duo enlightened audiences about working across art-forms.

Stuart Murdoch, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray & Emily Browning – Discussed the Glasgow-based production of Murdoch’s God Help the Girl, the debut feature from the Belle and Sebastian frontman.

Gregory Burke – The Scottish playwright behind the hit play Black Watch discussed moving from the stage to the screen for Yann Demange’s ’71.

Desiree Akhavan – The emergent actor/writer/director chatted about culture clashes and relationships in the context of her film Appropriate Behaviour.

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“GFT screens really interesting films while retaining a vibrant, accessible atmosphere.” Audience member

“A beautiful place to have coffee with a great selection of films. An unbeatable cinema.” Audience member

Ray Winstone Kim Longinotto Jarvis Cocker


Glasgow Film Festival 2015 had more than 40,000 admissions for the second year in a row and underlined its reputation as a welcoming, audience-focused festival with unforgettable special events throughout the city and the introduction of an Audience Award.

The festival opened with the European premiere of Noah Baumbach’s acclaimed Ben Stiller comedy While We’re Young and closed with the UK premiere of Ruben Östlund’s prize-winning drama Force Majeure. Guests over the twelve days of the festival included actors Alan Rickman, Cliff Curtis, Gemma Jones and Richard Johnson, filmmakers Carol Morley, David Robert Mitchell, Yasmin Fedda, Dome Karukoski, Morgan Matthews, Gravity’s Oscar-winning sound design guru Glenn Freemantle and beloved author William McIlvanney.

The festival’s commitment to embracing all aspects of cinema was evident in a programme that ranged from UK premieres of new films from Wim Wenders, Olivier Assayas and Roy Andersson, to the Internet Cat Video Festival, big-screen gaming in the IMAX and the annual visit from horror aficionados FrightFest.

The festival’s skill at staging unique events in some of the city’s most iconic buildings flourished with sold out highlights including a dazzling screening of Strictly Ballroom at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, a roller disco Dazed and Confused at Drygate Brewery and a murder mystery evening of Murder on the Orient Express screened at Trades Hall.

“Festivals are so important for showing diverse work, and Glasgow Film Festival gets such great audiences; real audiences.”Carol Morley, Director of The Falling

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“Receiving the Audience Award has made us all terrifically happy. Richard, Gemma and I had a great time in Glasgow – we were treated so kindly and were touched by the engagement of the audiences evident in the Q&A sessions” Tom Browne, Director of Radiator

The cast of Small Faces Olafur Arnalds Concert

The festival placed Glasgow’s love affair with the movies at the heart of the programme with the immensely popular Jeely Jars and Seeing Stars exhibition running at the Mitchell Library (see p11–12), A Night at the Regal bringing the former ABC Regal alive with a night of sonic cinema events and a 20th anniversary screening of Small Faces that reunited cast and crew including director Gillies MacKinnon, actors Iain Robertson, Joe McFadden and Stephen Duffy as well as Kevin McKIdd, via satellite from Los Angeles.

The annual retrospective celebrated the life and career of screen icon Ingrid Bergman and the country focus honoured Australian cinema. Ten titles from first or second time directors competed for the first Audience Award with Tom Browne’s Radiator proving a much-loved winner and subsequently securing a deal for UK-wide distribution.

The festival’s friendly spirit, clear passion for cinema and deeply committed audiences were all remarked upon by visitors in 2015 and play a huge part in making the festival increasingly appreciated and cherished throughout the film world. Wide-ranging media coverage and a tireless team worked heart and soul to make the festival a huge success and whet the appetite for what can be achieved in 2016 when the festival will run from February 17-28.

“Glasgow Film Festival offers the warmest kind of hospitality” Little White Lies


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There were 40,023 admissions in 2015, an overall 7% increase on 2014 admissions per event.

313 screenings and events took place during GFF and GYFF, including 33 UK Premieres, 11 World Premieres, 10 European Premieres, 2 International Premieres, 65 Scottish Premieres and a themed special event in a different building every night.

91% of festival attendees rated the programme as ‘good’ or ‘very good’.

Events took place in 21 different venues across the city including GFT, CCA, Grosvenor Cinema, IMAX, The Old Fruitmarket, Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, Mackintosh Queen’s Cross and Paisley Arts Centre.

173 feature films were submitted by filmmakers for our consideration.

The programme included films from 30 different countries including Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Philippines, Slovenia, Denmark, Syria, South Korea and New Zealand.

Website traffic increased 16% on 2014, with 212,947 visits between 1 January and 1 March 2015.

The festival’s social media reach across Twitter and Facebook for GFF and GYFF now tops 40,000 with @glasgowfilmfest earning almost 5,000 mentions on Twitter throughout January and February 2015.

A total of 1,170 individual press items appeared online, in print and in broadcast media, a 13.5% increase in overall media coverage from 2014.

The festival increased its outdoor advertising presence with a banner campaign through Glasgow City Centre and West End and a striking festival trailer playing at Pacific Quay’s huge outdoor screen.

GFF worked with its five longstanding media partners: The Skinny, The List, Sunday Herald/Evening Times, STV and The Big Issue. The independent festival paper, The Skinny’s CineSkinny shifted to a digital daily with four print editions to great success: during the 12-day festival period CineSkinny content received over 9,000 views.

168 nights were booked in six Glasgow hotels for 160 industry guests, including filmmakers, producers, actors and distributors.

In 2014, Glasgow Film Festival won Best Large Festival at the Scottish Event Awards, the Art and Culture Award at the Inspiring City Awards and was Regional Winner in the Best Event or Festival category at the Scottish Thistle Awards.

Strictly Ballroom at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and MuseumAssa Sylla at the Scottish premiere of Girlhood

William McIlvanney at the premiere of William McIlvanney: Living with Words

“I really enjoyed the festival, as always. It’s been amazing watching it develop since I moved to Glasgow in 2007, it’s quickly become a highlight of this time of year. Definitely something to look forward to during the dark winter months!” Audience member


Moving to March and staging ambitious events across the city, GSFF’s eighth edition saw huge audience growth and its most successful year yet.

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In moving its dates to March for the first time in 2015, Glasgow Short Film Festival fully established itself as a distinct event in Glasgow’s cultural calendar and on the international short film festival circuit. The festival featured 218 films from 35 different countries, screening in 58 programmes and events. Total attendance was 3,858, an increase of 42% on 2014. An international jury awarded the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film to the Netherlands film Shipwreck directed by Morgan Knibbe, whilst the Scottish Short Film Award, sponsored for the fourth year running by local restaurant Mother India, was presented to Directed By Tweedie by Duncan Cowles. Animation Monkey Love Experiments by Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson won the inaugural Channel 4 Award for Innovation in Storytelling.

The festival’s stunning opening event Vertical Cinema took place in the 1873 courtyard of the Briggait to a sell-out audience of 500, and involved the installation of

an 11 metre–high screen and a specially adapted 35mm film projector. Strange Electricity combined the screening of a rare Finnish music documentary and a club night at the Glue Factory, featuring live sets from Finnish electronica legend Jimi Tenor and local band Golden Teacher, whilst the unique walking tour A Wall Is a Screen saw a crowd of almost 600 gather to view free films in surprise outdoor locations around Garnethill and the city centre.

As the largest annual showcase of emerging Scottish film talent, GSFF attracts growing numbers of international industry delegates looking for new work. The 2015 edition welcomed over 150 guests and delegates, including programmers from festivals in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, UK and USA, and filmmakers from Bulgaria, Germany, Norway, Poland, Taiwan and the USA. GSFF looks forward to another year of promoting Scottish work internationally and devising an even more ambitious festival in March 2016.

Images: Clockwise from top left Audiences at A Wall Is a Screen, Short Stuff, Golden Teacher, GSFF Beer from Stewart Brewing


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“Given its own space to breathe, it’s more obvious now how complete and self-contained the festival has become.” Sunday Herald

“It was an amazing opportunity to see international work that we may have never been able to view in the States, much of which we have already begun to share and discuss amongst our friends and peers back home... seriously, an experience that we will remember for the rest of our lives. We love you all madly.”Michael Arcos and Marnie Ellen, filmmakers, USA

“Short films don’t have to be short on ambition or innovation – anyone who’s been following Glasgow Short Film Festival’s sharply curated programmes with even a passing interest could tell you that.” The Skinny

“Great week at #GSFF15, consistently the best place to see new Scottish film talent.” Audience member

“If GSFF was a coffee then it would be a double espresso: small, intense, rich, bitter, sweet, powerful and very stimulating.” Audience member

Vertical Cinema


GLASGOW YOUTH FILM FESTIVALGlasgow Youth Film Festival (GYFF) has been running for seven years and is the only film event in Europe to be completely curated by 15–18 year olds.

This year’s GYFF was condensed into one focused weekend. The youth group began meeting in September 2014 and started to curate the festival, selecting films and developing ideas for masterclasses. The weekend opened with the Scottish premiere of sci-fi thriller The Signal, and guests included Tamar van den Dop, director of Dutch arthouse drama Supernova, who facilitated an acting and directing masterclass and took part in a Q&A after the screening of her film.

The festival featured a free film and TV writing panel with guests Stephen Greenhorn (Doctor Who, Sunshine on Leith), Karen Laws (Waterloo Road, 32 Brinkburn Street) and Claudia Yusef (Scottish Film Talent Network). Robert Florence ran a hugely popular filmmaking workshop, and the programme also featured an anime event with prop-making and cosplay costume design.

This year GYFF received funding from Glasgow City Council to kick off the Glasgow Green Year 2015 programme with an an event fitting to the theme. The resulting event, produced in collaboration with Glasgow’s Pop-Up! Programmers, was a pop-up cinema event at the Barrowlands Art and Design centre which included free fair-trade food, live music and a double screening of Jumanji and Labyrinth. It was one of the most successful events of the weekend, with over 350 young people attending.

The GYFF schools programme also continued to prove popular. This included a number of screenings suitable for nursery, primary and secondary pupils and a variety of practical workshops run by Into Film and BAFTA. Continued support from Glasgow City Council Education Services meant 5,226 pupils from Glasgow schools were able to attend screenings free of charge and all schools were able to access free transport.

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“Working on the GYFF team has been a fantastic insight into film festival programming, events organisation and the film industry itself, while producing the trailer has given me great filmmaking experience.” Youth Team Member

“I enjoyed the Directing workshop with Tamar van den Dop. She was very enthusiastic and an incredible person. She really got to the core of producing realistic characters.” GYFF Audience Member

Film and TV writing panel


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“I just want to say that I really enjoyed it. I thought it was brilliant and I left with a big smile on my face.” Audience member

“More stuff like this please! Couldn’t have attended if it wasn’t free as cost would be too much for a family on limited means.” Audience member

“Fantastic event and great to see such original work in the city centre.” Audience member


Cargo, Camera… Action! was Glasgow Film’s contribution to Festival 2014: a day-long cinematic spectacular on the banks of the Clyde, created with artists, performers and filmmakers who embody the exciting creative ethos that underpins Glasgow’s grassroots arts scene, as part of the Cultural Programme for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The event was the first major commissioned work from Glasgow arts collective 85A, and comprised of screenings of five brand new artist films along with performances from six different music acts. There were also screenings of films created by young people at a workshop for the event. The free event was a unique and unforgettable day, drawing new visitors from diverse ethnic communities and from passersby who had never before engaged with Glasgow Film.

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Glasgow Film’s first ever exhibition was born out of the long-running Cinema City project, an online celebration of filmmaking and cinema-going heritage in the city.Between August and November 2014, Glasgow Film Festival interviewed Glasgow locals about their experiences of attending and working in cinemas in Glasgow over the years, based around the astonishing fact that in the 1930s Glasgow had more cinema seats per head than any other city in the world. 50 audio memories were gathered from across the community, with the ages of contributors ranging from 19 to 93.The project was supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund and resulted in a multimedia exhibition at the iconic Mitchell Library in February 2015, visited by over 3,000 people. Through the audience memories, archive footage and photographs, cinema objects donated by Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, first-hand stories, and free talks, Jeely Jars celebrated more than a century of cinema-going history in the city.Additionally, 475 primary school children from around Glasgow visited the exhibition and learned about cinema going and how it has changed over the years. The exhibition generated huge press interest both locally and nationally, confirming that Glasgow’s love affair with the movies is as strong as it ever has been.

The project will live on as a small permanent exhibition in Glasgow Film Theatre, on the Cinema City website and at the Scottish Screen Archive.

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“What the exhibition [did was] demonstrate the poignancy of cinema as an encounter with the extraordinary in everyday life.” Sight & Sound

“Primary 6s said the Jeely Jars exhibition was ‘amazing’, ‘interesting’, ‘wonderful’ and ‘remarkable’.” St. Benedict’s Primary School

“Thank you so much for a fab experience. Glasgow is still Cinema City: great to see how it evolved!” Exhibition attendee


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Glasgow Film Promoting Equalities and AccessAs an advocate for change, Glasgow Film endeavours to reduce inequalities by sharing a diverse film culture with the broadest range of people possible, deepening engagement with audiences to create an environment and programme that is inclusive and accessible for everyone.

The past year has been an exciting period of development around equalities and access, as GFT launched two new programmes, Access Film Club and Visible Cinema. These initiatives provide relaxed and welcoming environments where participants can watch a range of films, provide feedback, meet new people and discuss their ideas.

Access Film ClubGFT, together with Scottish Autism, launched a monthly Film Club in November 2014 for young people and adults aged 15+ with autism spectrum disorders. GFT received feedback from older audience members with autism who wanted to watch more age appropriate films than those featured in Take 2 Access screenings – GFT’s Autism-friendly screenings for children and their families.

“I have been wanting to go to the cinema all my life. This autism platform gives me the opportunity and it is uplifting.” Access Film Club audience member

“Excellent idea and a great event! This helps me to do more mainstream activities. I get to see films I wouldn’t normally see and open my mind.” Access Film Club audience member

Visilble Cinema Launch screening Frozen Sing-A-Long


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Visible CinemaIn March 2015 GFT launched Visible Cinema, a new programme of film screenings for deaf and hard of hearing audiences. Films are captioned, subtitled or British Sign Language (BSL) interpreted and each screening concludes with a discussion about the film. Visible Cinema is running for an initial ten-month period and is supported by Creative Scotland, Solar Bear and Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network. Film Hub Scotland is planning to use this model to roll out similar programmes throughout cinemas in Scotland.

“Really impressed to see some of GFT staff signing British Sign Language (BSL), that feels good!” Visible Cinema audience member

“I am 86 years old and have had a hearing problem for many years. I was able to see and HEAR the film. It was wonderful, best film I’ve seen in years. I had my grandson with me. Thanks ever so much.” Visible Cinema audience member

Young AudiencesThanks to the support of Glasgow City Council Education Services and The Robertson Trust, Glasgow Film offers young people and families regular opportunities to engage with mainstream and specialised cinema.

Take 2 is GFT’s programme of Saturday matinees for families. Screenings are free to Glasgow Young Scot and Kidz Card holders and accompanying adults. Over 100,000 children have attended Take 2 screenings since they began in 2004, and in 2014/15, there were 9,783 admissions. Take 2 Access, GFT’s monthly Autism friendly screenings, had 336 admissions. “I want to say a huge thank you to everyone at the GFT, who made our outing to the cinema to see Big Hero 6 such an enjoyable one. The children, staff, and carers in attendance all thoroughly enjoyed it and cannot praise your staff highly enough.” Carol Campbell, West Scotland Deaf Children’s Society

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Glasgow Film places our audience at the very heart of our existence. Our audiences are all ages and come from across Glasgow, Scotland and beyond. Every year, we engage with our community:

Through our monthly GFT brochure (277,000 per year) and our Festival brochures (88,000 for GFF, GYFF and GSFF).

By providing an open, honest, two-way communication on Twitter. Our combined followers on Twitter (@glasgowfilm, @glasgowfilmfest, @glasgowyouth and @GlasgowSFF) total 57,342.

Through GFT, GFF, Access and Learning e-newsletters to 29,179 subscribers.

By connecting our Facebook fans with film events, news and competitions. GFT, Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Youth Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival have a combined total of 34,838 likes.

Through glasgowfilm.org which received 681,492 visits between April 2014 and March 2015.

“I love the diversity of the festival. Every year I see brilliant films which I would never even have heard of otherwise. Keep doing that, and I’ll keep coming back!” Audience member


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“Glasgow Film Festival is recognised as one of the premier film events in the UK today and is a real stand-out in the city’s cultural calendar. Hosting the festival brings significant benefits to Glasgow; boosting our economy, attracting visitors from throughout the UK and beyond and reinforcing our credentials as a world-class cultural destination and leading cinema city.”Councillor Gordon Matheson, Leader of Glasgow City Council and Chair of Glasgow City Marketing Bureau

“It’s fantastic to watch Glasgow Film Festival continue to grow and continue to create innovative, world-class programmes. Thanks to Creative Scotland funding the festival is well placed to continue its success well into the future. This year the festival feels both international and distinctly home-grown, showcasing dynamic Scottish film, music and visual art talent, and some of Glasgow’s most beautiful historic buildings, whilst also bringing some of the most exciting new films in the world to Scotland.”Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe & External Affairs

“We’re delighted to support the Glasgow Film Festival as it unveils yet another great line up of premieres, special events and new strands for 2015, and extends the festivals within the festival across February and March. We are excited to work with GFF as they prepare to present another varied and exciting audience focused festival to Glasgow, Scotland and beyond.”Janet Archer, Chief Executive of Creative Scotland


Glasgow Film believes that cinema can powerfully inspire and improve people’s lives and aspirations. In order to offer the widest range and diversity of films, festivals and learning activities, Glasgow Film depends on core public partners: Creative Scotland, Glasgow City Council and Europa Cinemas part of the Creative Europe/MEDIA Programme, with additional investment from Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, EventScotland and the British Film Institute for Glasgow Film Festival.

Project funding from other sources, such as trusts, private businesses and individuals enables Glasgow Film’s work to develop and reach more people. Trusts giving vital regular support include The Robertson Trust, Hugh Fraser Foundation, Esterson Trust, Craignish Trust and Saints & Sinners Club of Scotland, while regular private supporters include Mother India, Link-Tel Communications, Cameron Presentations and Mactaggart Solicitors, Largs.

Arts & Business Scotland is also a valued partner in attracting new business sponsors: notably this year McKinlay Kidd, recipients of a New Arts Sponsorship Grant from the Scottish Government in conjunction with Arts and Business Scotland, who sponsored the Cinema City strand at Glasgow Film Festival. Part of this strand was the immensely popular Jeely Jars and Seeing Stars exhibition, a project made possible

“GFT is one of Glasgow’s most distinctive and important cultural assets. Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and its business members enjoy using GFT for private hire for its technical facilities, the service from its staff, and its architectural ambience.”Stuart Patrick, Chief Executive, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce

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through an exciting new partnership with the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Many cinemagoers have shown their love of GFT by their generous sponsorship of all 60 seats in the new Cinema 3. There are plans for new fundraising initiatives in the future for cinemagoers to enjoy and engage with. Legacy giving through Wills, no matter how small, also makes a difference to the future of GFT.

GFT is used for private hire by a wide array of organisations, companies, clubs and groups across public, private and voluntary sectors. It offers a stylish and glamorous city centre venue for any meeting, conference or launch. Individuals and families can also hire GFT for special celebrations, booking their favourite films, and there have even been memorable wedding events in our cinemas; marriages made in GFT heaven.

If you would like to support Glasgow Film, please contact Liana Marletta on 0141 352 8604, or [email protected].

For information on hiring GFT, please contact Angela Freeman, Senior Front of House Manager at [email protected] and also check our website for details www.glasgow.film.org/hire.

GFF Volunteers


BOARD & STAFFBoard of DirectorsRichard Cairns, Bailie Elizabeth Cameron, Cllr Frank Docherty, David Gordon, Steve Inch OBE (Chair), Eleanor McAllister OBE, Simon McMillan, Uzma Mir-Young, Dame Nosheena Mobarik, Susan Robinson, Jackie Shearer, Susan Stewart, Eleanor Yule, Paul Zealey. Board ObserversJennifer Armitage Creative Scotland, Simon Biggam Glasgow Life, Mark Thomas Creative Scotland. Year-round StaffFinn Arschavir Front of House Staff, Karlean-Marie Bourne Front of House Manager, Malcolm Brown Technical Manager, Damien Chalmers Front of House Staff, Gavin Crosby Design & Digital Marketing Officer, Robbie Duncan Technician, Marisol Erdman Front of House Staff, Lula Erdman Front of House Staff, Amy Eusebi Front of House Staff, Angela Freeman Senior Front of House Manager, Paul Gallagher Marketing Manager, Scott Galloway Front of House Staff, Allison Gardner Head of Cinemas & Festival Co-Director, David Gattens Head of Finance, Sean Greenhorn Programme Coordinator, Janice Halkett Cleaner, Jane Hartshorn Marketing & Press Officer, Tim Hughes Front of House Staff, Margaret Lynch Head Cleaner & Bar Staff, Mairi McCuish Cleaner & Usher, Jaki McDougall Chief Executive, Alex Mackenzie Front of House Manager, Chris MacMillan Front of House Staff, Lee MacPherson Front of House Manager, James Macvicar Front of House Staff, Liana Marletta Development Executive, Marion Morrison Cleaner, Elizabeth Murphy Front of House Staff, William Nation Cleaner & Usher, Corinne Orton Festival Producer, Jenny Reburn Front of House Staff, Dawn Ross Public Engagement Coordinator, Ieva Rotomskyte Front of House Staff, John Skivington Cleaner & Bar Staff, Alicja Tokarska Front of House Assistant and Box Office Staff, Bryan Wilson Finance Assistant, David Wylie Technician. Year-round staff who have left this yearJulie Cathcart Head of Communications & Marketing, Charlie Francis Bar Staff, Greg Grant Bar Staff, Mirren Green Front of House Staff, Paul Ivoska Bar Staff, Abigail McCormack Bar Staff, Emily Munro Head of Learning, Marion Pearson Financial Controller, Elisa Pakkanen Front of House Staff, Johny Thompson Front of House Manager, Amy Tickell Front of House Staff, Helen Wright Programme Coordinator: Children & Young People. Festival, Project and Temporary StaffCatriona Baird Exhibition Project Curator, Liam Bartie Programme and Events Assistant, Joseph Blythe Festival Press Assistant, Adrianne Calgie GYFF Marketing & Engagement, Iain Canning Festival Programme Coordinator, Eoin Carey Photographer, Pete Copeland Photographer, Stuart Crawford Photographer, Ailie Crerar Festival Press Assistant, Morvern Cunningham GSFF Coordinator, Louise Donoghue Learning Projects Coordinator, Neil Thomas Douglas Photographer, Jassy Earl Photographer, Sarah Emery Guest Services Coordinator, Angela Fussell Oral History Project Manager, Charlotte Gosling Venue Coordinator, Clare Gunn Comms & Venue Marketing Assistant, Tony Harris Venue Coordinator, Dom Hastings Cargo, Camera, Action! Project Manager, Allan Hunter Festival Co-Director, Kirstin Innes Festival Press Manager, Rose Jamieson Venue Coordinator, Sanne Jehoul GSFF Assistant, Matt Lloyd GSFF Director, Rachael Loughlan Volunteer Coordinator, Emma MacIntyre Event Coordinator, Fiona McQuillan GYFF Assistant, Megan Mitchell Pop-Up! Programmer, Richie Morgan Festival Filmmaker, Ingrid Mur Photographer, Nav Noorbakhsh Print Traffic Coordinator, Sofia Permiakova Guest Assistant, Rollo Strickland Venue Coordinator, Rachel Walker Venue Coordinator, Sean Welsh Blogger, Miriam Rune Festival Marketing Assistant. GFT VolunteersMoira Aherne, David Allan, Angela-Mariana Aranghelovici, Finn Ashavir, Laura Atchison, Giovanna Bisoni, Lauren Boland, Lee Bourne, Martyn Burrow, Avril Cadden, John Davie Calder, Iain Cambell, Caroline Carlisle, Cynthia Hung Chan, Lyndsey Clelland, Marion Cobban, Andrew Cowle, Bicola Barratt-Crane, Stuart Dale, Paul Devine, Saeed Dickie, Liam Doherty, Anne Downie, Jim Dutch, Rory Edwardson, Patricia Fernandez, Euan Freeman, Scott Galloway, Jenny Harkins, Ellie Harrison, Andrew Harrow, Sarah Henderson, Mark Hill, Teddin Hope, Aileen Jardine, Saara Javanainen, Arthur Johnson, Allan Johnstone, Anna Knox, Stuart Little, Stuart Paterson Lowson, Sheena MacLean, Margarethe MacPherson, Catherine McBride, Cieran McCusker, Danny McFadden, Bridget McGeechan, Margaret McInnes, Margaret McLaughlin, Margaret McMahon, Louise Mackie, Steve Martin, Marie Mason, Hana Markannen, Sabrina Mattheus, Katherine Matthews, Evan Mawdsley, Melissa Merkle, Sarah Nevin, Anne Osborne, Delphine Porre, Natasha Rapkin, Tom Rigg, Caroline Robertson, Sheila Robertson, Raymond Scanlan, Emily Shepherd, Neil Simpson, Sarah Small, Michael Stewart, Laura Teksa, Omiros Vazos, Anne Wallace, Gordon Whitelaw, Joshua Slater-Williams, Valerie Wilson, Laura Zebrauskaite.

…and thanks to all our GFF and GSFF Volunteers!

18Glasgow Film Annual Review 2014-2015

“This year’s Glasgow Film Festival again confirmed that one of the best cities in the UK has one of the best film festivals” The Huffington Post

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