For all of you who don't know what the word, "Weegie" means, it's the slang term for someone from Glasgow and it derives from the word Glaswegian funnily enough!
So the Glasgow Film Festival began in 2005, offering opportunities for budding film makers, film production companies, actors, producers and the likes to broadcast and share their work and gain recognition for their efforts. Anyone can involve themselves in the events that usually take place each year in the ending weeks of February. This year, they were extremely privileged to have Brian Cox, the Scottish actor, as one of their hosts! Here is the official trailer for the 2012 GFF (Glasgow Film Festival).
Most of these "contenders" are new and upcoming, some never heard before, which the Glasgow Film Festival provides the perfect platform for taking the first step into the much anticipated film industry. Not all of them are from Glasgow either. Many travel from all of the world, making the festival a more prestigious affair. This offers opportunities to everyone, allowing us Scots to experience different cultural views on film and how they adapt it differently. Here is a video of one of the films this year! Premiering earlier this year at GFF is Night is Day.
From the 6th to 26th February this year, GFF put on a show of unique programmes consisting of feature films, shorts, special events and live and interactive happenings. Across the city GFF exhibits in cinema spaces, galleries, unusual venues and are dedicated to putting on a truly great festival for film lovers from Glasgow and festival attendees from around the world.
Being in competition with Scotland's capital and the Edinburgh film festival sees organisers of Glasgow's film festival seek out new and exciting ventures and opportunities to be the best. So each year they have to out shine each other. Workshops, trials, film previews and theatres are set up for spectators to come along and enjoy and get a feel of the film industry. Hopefully in a bid to gain more admissions and sell more tickets.
School trips were also organised for the festival with earlier this year, educating primary and secondary pupils about Glasgow's film world for those who may consider making a career of it in the future! Reduced ticket rates and travel packages were issued to those schools interested.
The festival's 8th return to Glasgow saw the biggest turnout yet, organisers and critiques say this success was due to the increased interest in attracting younger audiences. Also, the variety of both films and venues saw the box office numbers rise to its highest yet; 35,000 admissions were accounted for over the eleven day festival. That's pretty impressive!
Within the festival there are other festivals, offering more choice to attendees of all age groups and interests. There is the Glasgow Short Film Festival, The Short Film Festival, Fright Fest, and the Youth Film Festival.
The Youth Film Festival proved to be a big hit in the early months of 2012, it ran on separate dates to the full event from the 5th to the 15th February. Here is a clip of some of Glasgow's younger aspiring film fans with their own film for the Youth Festival!
Over 9,000 admissions were made into the the youth film festival in 2012!
You can follow the link to the official Glasgow Film Festival link here, where you can keep updated and see all the winners and entries of this years and find out when the dates for next year are released!
I hope you have enjoyed reading this blog, sadly I never managed to go to the festival this year but I plan on going next year, from my research I found it interesting and I would like to find out more and the best way to do that would be to go along!
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