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Glasgow Film Festival selects nine projects for inaugural Funny Features comedy lab (exclusive) 2y3h13

BFI-backed lab includes projects from Screen Stars of Tomorrow and Rising Stars Scotland.

Reason8 picks up buzzy dark comedy ‘Tummy Monster’ starring Lorn Macdonald (exclusive) 4n1i4n

The dark comedy stars ’Bridgerton’ actor Lorn Macdonald.

Glasgow Film Festival’s 20th edition enjoys rise in audience levels and industry engagement 5gs6s

Cinema issions were up 4%, while industry attendance increased by 56%.

Icelandic football film ‘The Home Game’ scores audience award as Glasgow Film Festival wraps 6j5m57

Smari Gunn and Logi Sigursveinsson’s underdog documentary scored the highest audience score in the award’s 10-year history.

“A wave comes and it goes”: Rising UK filmmakers debate pros and cons of being labelled part of a movement 16u64

Charlotte Regan, Luna Carmoon, Adura Onashile and Lucy Cohen were speaking alongside Mia Bays and Eva Yates at the Glasgow Film Festival.

‘Edge Of Summer’ filmmakers on moving from docs to fiction, shooting in Cornwall and having babies while making a film 2x5f

The UK feature world premieres at Glasgow Film Festival.

Aylin Tezel’s ‘Falling Into Place’ secures key deals ahead of Glasgow premiere (exclusive) 5716e

Tezel’s debut feature has its UK premiere on Saturday 2.

“We are a lean, mean, running machine”: How Glasgow Film Festival is packing a punch 6j311s

As the festival marks its 20th edition, Allison Gardner and Chris Kumar discuss the fresh programming team and balancing budgets.

Alief acquires Lucy Cohen’s Glasgow premiere 'Edge Of Summer’ (exclusive) c205f

Cohen’s narrative feature debut is produced by Dorothy St Pictures, with backing from BBC Film and BFI.

Mia Bays, Eva Yates, Adura Onashile, Charlotte Regan Glasgow industry line-up 4e6k6c

Highights include a celebration of the new wave of UK filmmaking; the inaugural Book to Screen live pitching event; and the launch of the industry advisory board’s 10-year vision for the festival’s industry programme.

‘Love Lies Bleeding’ to open Glasgow Film Festival; full programme revealed l2k6y

Full festival programme for the 20th edition is revealed.

Charlotte Wells, Ben Sharrock among talent mentors for Glasgow Film Festival 2024 702yt

The inaugural animation scheme cohort has also been unveiled.

Glasgow Film Festival sets first 2024 titles, Czech country focus 35605r

2024 marks the 20th edition of the festival.

‘Janey’: Glasgow Review 5p236y

Glasgow’s closing film goes on the road with Scottish comedian Janey Godley

‘Edge Of Summer’: Glasgow Review 5430p

A long, hot Cornish summer in 1991 is the setting for Lucy Cohen’s coming-of-age drama

‘The Home Game’: Glasgow Review 3v730

A small Icelandic town prepares to host an FA Cup match in this feel-good documentary

‘Bucky F*cking Dent’: Glasgow Review 286331

David Duchovny directs and stars in this period drama about fathers, sons and the healing power of baseball

‘Woken’: Dublin Review 6u3h1b

A pregnant woman washes up on a mysterious, sinister island in Alan Friel’s genre debut