Matt Lloyd and Sanne Jehoul at the opening of the 2024 Glasgow Short Film Festival Photo: Andrew Robertson
The 2024 Glasgow Short Film Festival opened with a goodbye. Programme director Sanne Jehoul is moving on after a decade with Gsff, and among the usual thanks for sponsors and industry bodies, festival director Matt Lloyd was effusive in his thanks to Sanne.
Fulfilling the usual requirement for a small degree of chaos, the first attempt at the welcome speeches was interrupted by a reel for Blazing Griffin. Their support is vital to Gsff, as Lloyd said "there's no point in pretending this is not a tough time for film production in Scotland," which makes the contributions of bodies like "Scottish Screen" (now actually Screen Scotland) and Glasgow Life all the more valuable. Matt did say that the festival remained surprised by some of the groups willing to help, and did presage a later...
The 2024 Glasgow Short Film Festival opened with a goodbye. Programme director Sanne Jehoul is moving on after a decade with Gsff, and among the usual thanks for sponsors and industry bodies, festival director Matt Lloyd was effusive in his thanks to Sanne.
Fulfilling the usual requirement for a small degree of chaos, the first attempt at the welcome speeches was interrupted by a reel for Blazing Griffin. Their support is vital to Gsff, as Lloyd said "there's no point in pretending this is not a tough time for film production in Scotland," which makes the contributions of bodies like "Scottish Screen" (now actually Screen Scotland) and Glasgow Life all the more valuable. Matt did say that the festival remained surprised by some of the groups willing to help, and did presage a later...
- 3/23/2024
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Neon has acquired worldwide rights for Ava DuVernay’s Origin ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday (September 6).
The studio said it had secured the rights with a competitive bid and is planning a release for late 2023.
DuVernay will make history in Venice as the first African-American female director to premiere a film in competition in the festival’s 80-year history.
She wrote, produced and directed the biopic, which is inspired by the life and work of Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson, following her life as she pens her seminal book, Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents.
Related: Ava DuVernay On ‘Origin’: “Thank Goodness We Made This Film Independently” – Venice
While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, Isabel sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery. Despite the colossal scope of her project, she finds beauty and bravery while crafting one...
The studio said it had secured the rights with a competitive bid and is planning a release for late 2023.
DuVernay will make history in Venice as the first African-American female director to premiere a film in competition in the festival’s 80-year history.
She wrote, produced and directed the biopic, which is inspired by the life and work of Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson, following her life as she pens her seminal book, Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents.
Related: Ava DuVernay On ‘Origin’: “Thank Goodness We Made This Film Independently” – Venice
While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, Isabel sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery. Despite the colossal scope of her project, she finds beauty and bravery while crafting one...
- 9/5/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Award winners and jurors at the Glasgow Short Film Festival Photo: Andrew Robertson
Glasgow's 16th Short Film Festival has been an exciting return to form. While last year's saw the return of audiences after coronavirus restrictions were lifted, the festival's Programme Director Sanne Jehoul talked in her opening remarks at the closing ceremony about how this felt like things had properly bounced back. It was "very noticeable" that "people showed back up." Before she and Festival Director Matt Lloyd carried on, however, they announced a bit of off-screen drama.
The festival's had an exciting time. Several judges from the competition had to return early to avoid strike action in the German aviation sector. One of the event venues, the Centre for Contemporary Arts, was picketed by the Iww after staff at the venue's subcontracted/tenanted café were sacked for labour organising. The situation itself is complex, but it's also indicative...
Glasgow's 16th Short Film Festival has been an exciting return to form. While last year's saw the return of audiences after coronavirus restrictions were lifted, the festival's Programme Director Sanne Jehoul talked in her opening remarks at the closing ceremony about how this felt like things had properly bounced back. It was "very noticeable" that "people showed back up." Before she and Festival Director Matt Lloyd carried on, however, they announced a bit of off-screen drama.
The festival's had an exciting time. Several judges from the competition had to return early to avoid strike action in the German aviation sector. One of the event venues, the Centre for Contemporary Arts, was picketed by the Iww after staff at the venue's subcontracted/tenanted café were sacked for labour organising. The situation itself is complex, but it's also indicative...
- 3/27/2023
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Winners' speeches at the Glasgow Short Film Festival awards Photo: Andrew Robertson
Glasgow's eleventh short film festival, the 2018 installment, closed with a celebratory screening of award winners, in new festival venue Civic House. Hosted (and later DJ'd) by Ronan Leonard of Indie Cork, it was a well-attended, well-lubricated, and well-enjoyed event. Ronan was given the gig as host "around lunch-time" according to festival director Matt Lloyd, a role previously filled by much-missed festival apparatchik Morven Cunningham. Suffice to say she's a hard act to follow, but while she engages in artistic endeavours in a Leith direction her legacy as a quirkily confrontational compere was aptly filled.
The evening included the usual effusive thanks to supporters, festival director Matt Lloyd making special mention of Merchant City Brewing as a producer of imbibables, he said they were the first beer sponsor he "felt passionately about". He described "working through [their output] for the last...
Glasgow's eleventh short film festival, the 2018 installment, closed with a celebratory screening of award winners, in new festival venue Civic House. Hosted (and later DJ'd) by Ronan Leonard of Indie Cork, it was a well-attended, well-lubricated, and well-enjoyed event. Ronan was given the gig as host "around lunch-time" according to festival director Matt Lloyd, a role previously filled by much-missed festival apparatchik Morven Cunningham. Suffice to say she's a hard act to follow, but while she engages in artistic endeavours in a Leith direction her legacy as a quirkily confrontational compere was aptly filled.
The evening included the usual effusive thanks to supporters, festival director Matt Lloyd making special mention of Merchant City Brewing as a producer of imbibables, he said they were the first beer sponsor he "felt passionately about". He described "working through [their output] for the last...
- 3/19/2018
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Introducing the Glasgow Short Film Festival Photo: Andrew Robertson
Glasgow's Short Film Festival opened its eleventh outing with a well-attended screening at the city's historic Film Theatre. The programme featured a wide variety of films drawn from the 2018 schedule, and those in the audience who particularly enjoyed the works will have the opportunity to catch them "peppered across" the rest of the weekend's events.
Festival Director Matt Lloyd welcomed everyone to Glasgow's second film festival in the space of a fortnight, and expressed a hope that filmgoers wouldn't have to battle any Beasts from the East or Pests from the West. Talking about the global reach of this year's festival, with attendees from Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, New York and Austria, Matt talked about struggles not with the weather but with the UK Border Agency - visa woes from what were explicitly characterised as "racist policies" weren't the only issues -...
Glasgow's Short Film Festival opened its eleventh outing with a well-attended screening at the city's historic Film Theatre. The programme featured a wide variety of films drawn from the 2018 schedule, and those in the audience who particularly enjoyed the works will have the opportunity to catch them "peppered across" the rest of the weekend's events.
Festival Director Matt Lloyd welcomed everyone to Glasgow's second film festival in the space of a fortnight, and expressed a hope that filmgoers wouldn't have to battle any Beasts from the East or Pests from the West. Talking about the global reach of this year's festival, with attendees from Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, New York and Austria, Matt talked about struggles not with the weather but with the UK Border Agency - visa woes from what were explicitly characterised as "racist policies" weren't the only issues -...
- 3/15/2018
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Kevin Jerome Everson's Park Lanes
The full programme for this year's Glasgow Short Film Festival was announced today, and it's already raising a few eyebrows, challenging expectations of what short film means. As well as a marathon overnight session featuring the work of legendary Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul - with pillows and mattresses provided for sleepy attendees - there will be a screening of Kevin Jerome Everson's 8-hour-long Park Lanes, a study of factory life, alongside his short work.
"This year Gsff tackles work and rest, through Kevin Jerome Everson’s meditations on Afro-American working lives, and the lush dreamscapes of Thai artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul. There will also be time for play, with late night cult screenings, and live shows from Babe and all female hip hop night Tomboy," said festival director Matt Lloyd. "This March, Glasgow belongs to short film!"
The 11th edition of the festival, which is...
The full programme for this year's Glasgow Short Film Festival was announced today, and it's already raising a few eyebrows, challenging expectations of what short film means. As well as a marathon overnight session featuring the work of legendary Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul - with pillows and mattresses provided for sleepy attendees - there will be a screening of Kevin Jerome Everson's 8-hour-long Park Lanes, a study of factory life, alongside his short work.
"This year Gsff tackles work and rest, through Kevin Jerome Everson’s meditations on Afro-American working lives, and the lush dreamscapes of Thai artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul. There will also be time for play, with late night cult screenings, and live shows from Babe and all female hip hop night Tomboy," said festival director Matt Lloyd. "This March, Glasgow belongs to short film!"
The 11th edition of the festival, which is...
- 1/31/2018
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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