Glasgow Short Film Festival launches Shorts in Support

This autumn and winter, enhance your programme with a selection of gorgeous shorts from Glasgow Short Film Festival.

A supporting short film is a great way introduce exciting upcoming Scottish and international filmmakers to a wider audience, broaden your programme and generate a dialogue between short and feature.

Glasgow Short Film Festival (GSFF) is offering Scottish cinemas and film societies a slate of seven shorts from their 2024 Festival to screen before features. The shorts include fiction, documentary, animation and family films, with durations ranging from 2 to 7 minutes to enable a variety programming contexts. None of the films have BBFC certification, but recommended certificates are provided, and we have included a couple of titles suitable for the youngest cinemagoers.

Venue programmers can choose which short they wish to screen alongside which feature, making this a collaborative curatorial process. The shorts are listed in the Venue Pack below, and GSFF have included theme and genre tags, as well as some pairing suggestions, for your convenience.

DOWNLOADABLE VENUE PACK

Captioned screenings

We are happy to say that all films are also available with captions for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing audiences. If you would like to request one of these films for accessible screenings, do let us know. Many thanks go to Matchbox Cineclub for creating the captions.

How to get involved

Films are available to book now and screenings must take place between November 2024 and the end of March 2025. Standard arrangements and fees:

Theatrical Venues (DCP)

• A week-long run of one film title (preferably a minimum of seven screenings): £30.00

• A 4-month contract for unlimited screenings of any/all titles: £180.00

Community Cinemas / Film Societies (Digital file)

• A 4-month contract for unlimited screenings of any/all titles: £35.00

However, GSFF are flexible and can discuss different screening periods, structures and fees to suit you. What they ask is that you commit to a minimum number of screenings, prominently display our poster with QR code to an audience survey, and send us screenings schedules and admissions figures per screening.

To access the films for preview, and to book, please contact oisin.kealy@glasgowshort.org.