GFF Exhibitors’ Day: Programme Announced
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Date
18th February 2025
We are hosting an Exhibitors’ Day for FHS members at Glasgow Film Festival 2025.
Our Exhibitors’ Day will be an opportunity to meet, learn and catch up with fellow FHS members. Join us on Wednesday 5 March at DoubleTree by Hilton, Glasgow, for a varied programme of sessions and speakers.
Scroll down for full session details!
- Funding Opportunities in 2025
- Building a Cinema Brand
- Panel discussion: Nurturing New Talent
- Building a Better Pathway to Audio Description
- New Releases: Slate Presentation
- Lunch + drinks reception
Your organisation’s Bursary allowance can support you to attend this event.
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Session One
Funding Opportunities in 2025
A quickfire-round of opportunity announcements for film exhibition projects and organisations looking to fund activity in 2025.
After a quick refresher on FHS funding programmes, you will hear from Katharine Simpson (Screen Scotland), Paul Forrest (The National Lottery Community Fund), and Jaq Chell (Cinema for All), as they discuss film exhibition projects they’ve funded in the past and describe what they look for in a perfect project proposal.
Session Two
Building a Cinema Brand
With so much of cinema marketing focused on film promotion, a strong brand for your venue or event has become an underutilised tool for winning with audiences. In this hands-on interactive workshop, Bernadine Brewer will cover new ways of thinking about the business of brand-building. You will work together to learn and practice a key technique that you can use to explore and define your own brand, and discover the opportunities it could unlock.
About the speaker
Bernadine Brewer is a brand strategy leader, with 20 years of experience in marketing & communications. She has developed brand and campaign narratives for household names from Mastercard to Pizza Hut. After a successful career working in top tier advertising agencies around the globe, Bernadine now leads the strategy function for Tapestry Place Studios – a place-shaping brand consultancy. She has a personal passion for cinema, bringing her career full circle.
Session Three
Show and Share
Film Hub Scotland members spotlight the projects and events that they are working on.
Session Four
Panel discussion: Nurturing new talent
How can organisation’s support and nurture the next generation of film exhibition talent?
Xuanlin Tham (Writer/Curator, Take One Action) will chair a conversation with Frieda Ford (Glasgow Short Film Festival New Producer), Rosie Beattie (Curator, GFT Queer Cinema Sundays) and Dylan Beck (Curator, Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival) on developing opportunities to work, and grow, in the sector.
Session Five
Building a Better Pathway to Audio Description
Founded in 2021, SoundScribe is a global majority collective of describers and blind/visually impaired consultants specialising in access across the arts. Their process connects the describer, the artist and the listener, re-centring marginalised voices through co-writing and recording with BVI artists. Audio describer, Elaine Lillian Joseph, will be delivering a workshop on audio description with theatre practitioner and disability consultant, Kirin Saeed, exploring how to create equitable pathways to access in cinema.
About the speakers
Elaine Lillian Joseph is an audio describer based in London and Birmingham. She has a BA in Modern Languages (German) and English Literature (2014) and trained as a describer at ITV. She is a founding member of SoundScribe, a global majority collective of audio describers and consultants with lived experience of sight loss and a member of Collective Text, an organisation supporting accessibility in art and film through creative captioning, audio description and interpretation.
Kirin Saeed has over 30 years’ experience of working in the disability sector as a disability consultant. She focuses on access to museums, galleries, heritage sites and films through the use of audio description and access audits. In 1999 she obtained an MA in Human Resources at Northumbria University. She founded and runs a theatre company for visually impaired performers, called VICS, Visually Impaired Creators Scotland.
Session Six
New Releases: Slate Presentation
Distributors and filmmakers present their upcoming slates to help you plan audiences for them.
Hear from Mubi, Conic, Park Circus, Cosmic Cat, Verve Pictures and filmmaker Ciaran Lyons on his film, Tummy Monster.
Networking Drinks Reception
Join us for an evening drinks reception to meet and catch up with fellow exhibitors!
Plus, join us afterwards for the famous Glasgow Film Festival ceilidh.