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GFF13: Final weekend

Fashion in Film: SHOWstudio: Fashion Film in the Digital Age

Friday 22 February (18.30), CCA

Set up in 2000 by fashion photographer Nick Knight, Showstudio is a fashion website with a focus on delivering fashion as it happens. Via live blogging and streaming, the website broadcasts fashion and catwalk shows, as well as producing fashion films with designers such as Christopher Kane, Gareth Pugh and Alexander McQueen. Head of Fashion Film, Marie Schuller, visits GFF to talk about the changing face of fashion and its relationship with film in the digital age. Using archive films from the Showstudio back catalogue, this unique presentation explores how film and ever-changing technology is reshaping the fashion industry.

Fashion in Film: Red Bull Catwalk Studio presents Alex Mattsson

Saturday 23 February (18.00, 19.00, 20.00 & 21.00), SWG3

Following last season's successful collaboration between Fred Butler and Two Inch Punch for London Fashion Week, Red Bull Catwalk Studio have supported menswear designer Alex Mattsson for the London Collection: Men AW13. Creating a bespoke soundtrack with the hotly-tipped Zebra Katz and a film directed by Grace Ladoja, the Alex Mattsson presentation was one of the most sought after tickets of 2013's London Collections: Men. The film, shot by Grace in Los Angeles with Zebra Katz's Ojay Morgan, plays on the city's biker and gang culture and features Njena Reddd Foxxx, a regular Zebra Katz collaborator.

You have four opportunities (18.00, 19.00, 20.00 and 21.00) to come and see Alex's presentation and Grace's film and hear the pair chat live about their recent collaboration.

Free but booking is essential. Please email

Art and experimental films: Crossing the Line highlights

Want to see films that light the touch-paper to your imagination? Burst out of the restraints of traditional genres and narratives, and genuinely open your eyes afresh? Welcome to the strand for you: Crossing the Line. This celebration of films that cross over between visual art and cinema still has four more extraordinary films to come...

Palme d'Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest film, Mekong Hotel, screens on Saturday 23 February (18.45). This inventive mix of fact and fiction explores themes central to the artist's work; romantic relationships, reincarnation (personified by intestine-eating ghosts) and the legacy of violence that once dominated Thailand's northeast.

New York artist Jem Cohen presents a charming and intelligent reflection on the role that art plays in our lives in Museum Hours (Friday 22 February, 18.00 & Sunday 24 February, 12.45). This glorious city symphony of the art and architecture of Vienna mixes sumptuous close-ups of Bruegel the Elder's peasant landscapes with the art that can be found in seemingly mundane, everyday objects and settings.

As part of CCA (Glasgow) and Stills' (Edinburgh) joint exhibition ECONOMY, GFF will screen Staande! Debout!, a new film by Anu Pennanen and Stephane Querrec (Friday 22 February, 10.30am). A fictionalised account of the impact of the closure of a car factory on the community of Vilvoorde, Belgium, the film attempts to overcome myth-making to make sense of the traumatic events.

Breaking the Frame (Sunday 24 February, 17.50) is a mesmerising portrait of groundbreaking artist and kickass feminist Carolee Schneemann whose work has transformed discourses on the body, sexuality and gender since the 1960s.

Free Festival Club events

Have you checked out our new Festival Club yet? We've taken over the Saramago Terrace Bar (at CCA) to offer you a place to relax and rub shoulders with some of our visiting filmmakers and special guests. We also host free informal discussions there every day on topics like casting, special effects and film criticism, as well as case studies on GFF films. Here are the events on offer over the next couple of days...

Close Up on Casting: Industry Secrets for Surviving Auditions

Friday 22 February (17.30), Free, CCA
Glasgow-based casting director Kahleen Crawford, who is responsible for casting such films as The Angels' Share, Weekend and Red Road, chats about the highs and lows of casting. She'll be joined by Scottish actor Emun Elliot who she first cast in 2006, and whose star is firmly on the rise with credits such as Lip Service, Game of Thrones and Prometheus to his name.

Cinema City: Glasgow's Film Locations

Saturday 23 February (17.00), Free
Celebrate the launch of book World Film Locations: Glasgow with this discussion about our Cinema City. Find out how Glasgow became a Hollywood film location for the likes of Cloud Atlas and World War Z, and about the city's heritage as a filmmaking -- and a filmgoers' -- city.

Show and Tell with Artem Special FX and Welcome to the Punch

Saturday 23 February (18.00), Free
Intrigued to find out how elaborate stunts are pulled off and film props are made? London and Glasgow-based special FX company Artem talk about creating bullet hits and a prosthetic knee for new thriller Welcome to the Punch (premiering at GFF on Sunday 24 February).

Special FX Wounds

Saturday 23 February (19.30)
Following the show and tell, the team from Artem will offer you the chance to get your own scar or wound applied to your skin! Just drop in any time between 19.30 and 21.00.

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Margaret Tait Award 2013

Nominations open - Deadline: 5pm, Tuesday 2 April 2013.

Nominations are now open for the fourth year of the Margaret Tait Award, supported by Creative Scotland and in partnership with LUX. This award will recognise Scottish or Scotland-based artists who are experimental, innovative and who work within film and moving image.

The Margaret Tait Award was launched in 2009, inspired by the pioneering Orcadian filmmaker Margaret Tait (1918-1999). The recipient of the award will be given a #10,000 prize to create new work and the opportunity to present it at Glasgow Film Festival in 2014. The award is inspired by the wealth of talent emerging from Scotland within this field and hopes to raise the profile of the many galleries, curators and arts organisations who support this area of work. It allows the Festival to have a lasting and meaningful impact on the careers of new filmmaking talent, support new commissions and forge new partnerships across the sector.

Nominations are now sought from the sector.

Deadline: 5pm, Tuesday 2 April 2013.

More details about how to nominate for the Margaret Tait Award

Festival Club at the Terrace Bar

CCA - Glasgow Film Festival

Friday 15 February - Sunday 24 February 2013

5:30pm : FREE

Venue: Terrace Bar

Ages: all

Call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900

Glasgow Film Festival has taken over the Saramago Terrace Bar to offer you a place to relax, catch your breath between screenings, grab a bite to eat, chat to fellow film enthusiasts and rub shoulders with visiting film makers and special guests. You can plan your festival schedule, ask the GFF team for advice, use the wifi to book tickets online and eat tasty tapas (5 for £10). Join in lively debates and informal discussions on topics like casting, special effects and film criticism, and hear case studies on GFF films like Shell and We Are Northern Lights. Then dance the night away with a select choice of DJ live acts and happenings!

Visit The GFF Festival Club Page

CCA, 250 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD

Love is in the air as Glasgow Film Festival announces biggest-ever programme.

14th - 24th February, 2013

Film lovers, rejoice! Glasgow Film Festival today announced its most ambitious programme yet: bookended by two very different romantic comedies, kicking off on Valentine's Day and ending on the night of the 85th Academy Awards.

Supported by Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, Creative Scotland and EventScotland, with 368 screenings, panel discussions, live performances and special events, this is the most extensive Glasgow Film Festival programme to date. It truly is a festival for the whole city, too, spreading out further than ever before into twenty seven venues - everywhere from the stately surroundings of Glasgow Cathedral to a secret location somewhere in the depths of the Subway system.

There are a record number of UK premieres amongst this year's films, and GFF's unique programme of special events celebrating the joy of cinema gets even more innovative in 2013, with contributions from comedians, musicians, comic book legends, fashion designers and even Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond. It's a programme that wears its love of film - and of the cinema-going experience in all its forms - very prominently on its sleeve.

Glasgow Film Festival

Opening Gala:

Populaire UK PREMIERE On Valentine's Day, movie lovers will walk down the red carpet for the UK premiere of sparkling French romantic comedy Populaire, starring Deborah Francois, Roman Duris and The Artist's Brenice Bejo. With the retro appeal of Mad Men and the glossy allure of a Doris Day/Rock Hudson tussle, this gorgeous, candy-coated romance between the fastest typist in the world and her handsome, commitment-phobic boss will melt hearts (and inspire wardrobes). Thursday 14 February (19.30 & 20.15)

Closing Gala:

Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing UK PREMIERE

What do you do when you've just made the most successful superhero blockbuster ever? In the case of Avengers Assemble writer/director Joss Whedon, you invite a group of actor friends to your home for a fortnight and shoot an inspired, inventive version of Shakespeare's classic battle of the sexes. Stuffed with familiar faces from Whedon's cult oeuvre (look out for actors from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse and Firefly giving their best hey nonny noes), this Much Ado About Nothing is a warm, witty and accessible take on one of the original rom coms. Sunday 24 February (20.15)

Allan Hunter, Co-Director of Glasgow Film Festival, said: 'Glasgow Film Festival has grown into a massive celebration of every aspect of the moving image. We all spend part of our lives watching films, playing games or catching up with television but there is still nothing to match sharing the experience with fellow enthusiasts, meeting the filmmakers and finding fresh inspiration. We are extremely proud of an ambitious 2013 programme that promises unforgettable moments in venues all across the city.'

SPECIAL EVENTS

Catwalk shows. Live video gaming. DJ sets. GFF's events programme has always made the festival particularly unique, and this year we celebrate cinema with almost fifty different events from panel discussions to comedy, some embracing the cinematic in television and computer games, some tracing the relationships between film and fashion or music.

Brand new event: Red Bull Catwalk Studio presents Alex Mattsson

Saturday 23 February (18.00, 19.00, 20.00 & 21.00), SWG3

Following last season's successful collaboration between Fred Butler and Two Inch Punch for London Fashion Week, Red Bull Catwalk Studio have supported menswear designer Alex Mattsson for the London Collection: Men AW13. Creating a bespoke soundtrack with the hotly-tipped Zebra Katz and a film directed by Grace Ladoja, the Alex Mattsson presentation was one of the most sought after tickets of 2013's London Collections: Men. The film, shot by Grace in Los Angeles with Zebra Katz's Ojay Morgan, plays on the city's biker and gang culture and features Njena Reddd Foxxx, a regular Zebra Katz collaborator.

You have four opportunities (18.00, 19.00, 20.00 and 21.00) to come and see Alex's presentation and Grace's film and hear the pair chat live about their recent collaboration.

Tickets are free and available on the day from the venue.

SWG3. Studio Warehouse, 100 Eastvale Place. Glasgow, G3 8QG

Festival Celebrity Picks

Five picks of the Festival programme: Alan Bissett We asked our pal, author Alan Bissett to let us know which five films of the Festival have got him all excited and here's what he told us...

Jaws

Thursday 21 (18.00) & Friday 22 February (20.20), The Tall Ship

The best film ever made (true fact) in an apt setting. Not only will you be watching a masterpiece of suspense, its cracking cast marshalled with incredible skill by a young Steven Spielberg, but if it's a sell-out you also get to walk on board, look around and say, 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.'

Alasdair Gray: A Life in Progress

Thursday 21 February (13.30), GFT

A portrait of a unique mind and Scotland's greatest living genius. Author of the classic novel Lanark and a painter beyond repute, expect to come away as dazzled and baffled as you would after a meeting with the man himself.

Why Can't Women Make Feature Films?

Saturday 9 February (15.30), CCA

A much needed debate. For every Kathryn Bigelow there's a... well who, exactly? It's not news that filmmaking is dominated by Men With Beards, but why should this be the case when there are so many talented female artists in every other sphere? The ever redoubtable Hannah McGill and panel will take your (probably sexist) questions.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Friday 8 February (23.00), GFT

Probably the most charming, energetic and instantly likeable of John Hughes' movies (rather like its protagonist). The most joyous, angst-free film about teenagers ever made and certainly the one only when you'll be rooting for the popular kid in school. If your face doesn't break into a big, daft grin during the 'Twist and Shout' sequence you have no soul.

We Are Northern Lights

Saturday 16 February (15.15), GFT

Brought to you by the excellent Nick Higgins, this is an elaborate, ambitious tapestry of a film that aims to capture the shifting mosaic that is Scotland, stitched together from short films submitted for competition. Veers from the surreal to the heartbreaking. A marvellous achievement.

Alan Bissett is the 2011 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Writer of the Year

Five picks of the Festival programme: Muriel Gray

"In an act of unparalleled brutality GFF has demanded a list of only five choices from this amazing programme. Five!! Yes, you read that right! How is that possible? This is one the best ever programmes ever, from the sublime set of classic Cagney films, to the ever brilliant FrightFest, gaming events, short film heaven and Scottish heavyweights sharing their knowledge with budding filmmakers. It's beyond brilliant. Obviously any sane person would wish to see every single film and attend every event, but no. We're being asked for five. Pah! Damn you and your reductionist choices."

"Oh, alright then. Here's some."

Sawney: Flesh of Man

Friday 22 February (15.00), GFT
Desperate to see Sawney. David Hayman as a cannibal can't be anything but unmissable.

FrightFest: Byzantium & Bring Me the Head of Machine Gun Woman

FrightFest takes place on Friday 22 & Staurday 23 February, GFT
Wish I could see every single FrightFest film, but if pressed I'm torn between Neil Jordan's Byzantium, a creepy vampire affair, and Bring Me the Head of Machine Gun Woman (which I'm assuming is based on the books of Beatrix Potter). Please note Byzantium is now sold out.

Rab's Video Game Empty

Friday 22 Februrary (21.00), CCA
Have actually already bought our tickets for the gaming show Rab's Video Game Empty, for two fourteen-year-old boy gamers and myself (of course). They're thrilled. I think. How do you tell? In fact how do you tell if fourteen-year-olds are even alive? Blinking?

Game of Thrones Screening and Panel Discussion

Thursday 21 February (18.30), GFT
I'm embarrassingly excited that cast members will be there. I've had a crush on Peter Dinklage since The Station Agent, although I'm much too old and possibly too tall for him. (If it's Joffrey we can call the police domestic unit and have him arrested.)

Kapow! Pros vs Super-fans Quiz

Wednesday 20 February (20.00), CCA
Want to see all the Marvel films again, but since you're making me choose, the Kapow evening of Pros vs Super-fans will obviously be awesome. If it's sold out, then any James Cagney will delight me. Damn it, it all delights me!

Muriel Gray is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster, novelist, munro-bagger and all-round good egg.

Highlights include:

Second screening of Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing announced!

Fans of Joss Whedon will be delighted to hear that we have put on a second screening of the director's Much Ado About Nothing on the same day as the UK Premiere, which will be this year's GFF Closing Gala.

Tickets for the UK Premiere of Whedon's latest film sold out within an hour of going on sale on Thursday 17 January; long before the cult director himself was confirmed as attending the Festival. This second screening will be at Cineworld on Glasgow's Renfrew Street, on Sunday 24 February at 20.45, and tickets are going on sale immediately, via Glasgow Film Theatre's Box Office.

Allison Gardner, co-director of Glasgow Film Festival, said: 'We're over the moon to be able to offer fans another opportunity to catch this wonderful and highly in-demand film.'

Much Ado About Nothing is on general UK release from Friday 14 June.

Information and tickets

• Entre chien et loup, a series of new commissioned works by some of Scotland's best artist filmmakers, curated by Henry Coombes and premiering at a fabulous grand ball.
• The first ever film screening in Glasgow Cathedral will be the 1928 silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc, with a brand new live score for organ and soprano.
• Legendary Scottish actor James Cosmo in conversation about his life and career
• A secret film screening in a hidden location in the depths of Glasgow Subway.
• Comedian Simon Munnery's new show, Fylm-Makker.
• A panel of actors from HBO's award winning television epic Game of Thrones
• introduce an episode screening and launch Season Three.
• The Calamity Jane Barn Dance, at Glasgow's legendary country and western club, Grand Ole Opry
• Scary watery movies Jaws and Dead Calm screened - comfortingly enough - onboard The Tall Ship.
• Comic book legends John Wagner (creator of Judge Dredd), our Kapow!@GFF curator Mark Millar (Kick-Ass), and Steve Niles (creator of 30 Days of Night)discuss their work.
• Hop on board our samba bus and be whisked off to a proper Brazilian Carnival.
• Live music performances from Jane Birkin, Auricle Ensemble and Lau.
• Celebrate fifty years of Doctor Who with members of the cast and series writer Tom McRae.
• DCI Caroline Goode, who led the investigation into the death of young British-Kurdish woman Banaz Mahmod, joins us for a discussion on honour killings.
• Fashion label Obscure Couture launch their next season collection with an outrageous live catwalk/film extravagana.
• Detroit techno icon Jeff Mills headlines our day-long Sonic Cineplex, where DJs and musicians create new soundtracks to old film footage.
• First Minister Alex Salmond reveals his nerdy side, introducing his favourite geek cinema classic.
• Computer game experts compare highly anticipated game Aliens: Colonial Marines to the original 70mm Aliens, both on the big screen.
• Dress up like your favourite cult character and walk the red carpet at our Cosplay Gala.

SELECTED UK PREMIERES

This year, fifty-seven of our films are UK premieres, including:

• Stoker, starring Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman.
• The Place Beyond the Pines, which reunites Ryan Gosling with Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance.
• Neil Jordan's dark vampire thriller Byzantium, with Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton,
• Arbitrage, with a bravura performance by Richard Gere.
• The Look of Love, Michael Winterbottom's stylish look at the life of Paul Raymond (played
• by Steve Coogan).
• Mama, starring Jessica Chastain.
• The Paperboy, with a Golden Globe-nominated performance by Nicole Kidman alongside Matthew McConaughey.
• James McAvoy, Peter Mullan and Mark Strong team up for the sleek, powerful thriller Welcome to the Punch.

Glasgow Film Festival is also delighted to host the first public UK screening of the eagerly-anticipated Cloud Atlas, which was partially shot in Glasgow.

SELECTED WORLD PREMIERES

• Kevin Cameron's Alasdair Gray: A Life in Progress, a film as entertaining and multi-faceted as the man himself, featuring Liz Lochhead and the late Edwin Morgan.
• A Tale of Two Syrias: award-winning documentary filmmaker Yasmin Fedda's unique, personal take on recent events in Syria.
• Created especially for GFF with CCA and Stills Gallery, feature film Staande! Debout! is based on true events, examining the aftermath of a strike on a workforce.
• Outwork, by the internationally-renowned artist filmmaker Stephen Sutcliffe, is the third annual Margaret Tait Award project.
• The Devil's Plantation, based on May Miles Thomas' BAFTA-winning website, is an innovative look at Glasgow's secret geometery, narrated by Kate Dickie and Gary Lewis.
• We Are Northern Lights, a film created from submissions across Scotland

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NEW FOR 2013

Three new programming strands for this year's Festival were announced in November 2012.

Buena Onda: New Brazilian Cinema: As Brazil begins to take its place on the world stage, both as an emerging superpower and as the next host nation of the Olympics, we examine some of the great new work coming out of the country. It's also a great excuse to throw a traditional Brazilian Carnival party, with a samba bus to take you to a secret location, and a special screening of 1970s classic Black Orpheus.

James Cagney: Top of the World, Ma! Our retrospective this year takes a long, loving look at the career of the Oscar-winning Hollywood tough guy, from the young street rat-turned gangster of Angels With Dirty Faces, to the menacing obsessive lover of Love Me or Leave Me.

Game Cats Go Miaow!: Robert Florence, star of the BBC comedy series Burnistoun, curates a look at the cross-over between cinema and video gaming. A panel of gaming experts review the hotly-anticipated Aliens: Colonial Marines on the big screen, followed by a comparison screening of Aliens itself. A whole host of comedians pack themselves in for Rab's Video Game Empty, a quiz show with a difference, and we take a searing look at epic game Dark Souls and the whole of the dark fantasy genre.

Our brand new Festival Club takes over CCA's Terrace Bar every day and night for the duration of the Festival. Rub shoulders with filmmakers and visiting guests, ask the GFF team for advice planning your schedule, take part in a daily programme of debates and discussions and then dance the night away with a great selection of DJs and live acts. Festival Club listings will be online at www.glasgowfilm.org/festivalclub and posted daily in the GFT foyer.

FESTIVALS WITHIN THE FESTIVAL

Glasgow Short Film Festival: 7-10 February

Scotland's leading short film festival returns with a packed programme of screenings, workshops and parties. This year sixty films compete for the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film and the Scottish Short Film Award. The 2013 programme pays tribute to the behemoth of underground cinema George Kuchar, forecasts tomorrow's US indie darlings with a showcase of filmmaking from Columbia University graduates, celebrates the groundbreaking work of Caroline Sascha Cogez and assembles heavyweight panels to ask 'why can't women make feature films?' across a series of discussions during the weekend. www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff

Glasgow Youth Film Festival: 3-13 February

The only film event in the UK curated entirely by 15--18-year-olds presents international film premieres, workshops and events for child, teenage and young adult audiences. Highlights include premieres of Disney's Wreck-It Ralph and Michel Gondry's hilarious comedy The We and the I, plus anime previews and a cosplay parade! GYFF will also be turning the banks of the Clyde into a pop-up cinema and dance space, screening recent dance classic Girl Walk // All Day, and the cast and crew of Channel 4's Fresh Meat stop by for a masterclass. GYFF also offers a range of practical workshops to aspiring screenwriters and filmmakers.

Glasgow Music and Film Festival (dates as Glasgow Film Festival; Jane Birkin on 29 January)

Curated by the GFF team and long term partners-in-crime The Arches, this year's GMFF embraces local artists and global greats alike, with live performances from Jane Birkin, techno legend Jeff Mills, gold star folkers Lau, Alasdair Roberts, and Auricle Ensemble. Witness some intriguing new live soundtracks created to old classics - in particular Irene Buckley's spine-tingling new score for The Passion of Joan of Arc, for soprano, electronics and organ, in the very atmospheric setting of Glasgow Cathedral. Accompanied by a jam-packed programme of excellent rockumentaries and biopics.

Film4 FrightFest: 22-23 February

Our special horror Fest-within-a-Festival may now be in its eighth year at GFF, but there's still no let up to that heady mix of mirth, menace, monsters and mayhem that characterises the Film4 FrightFest Glasgow experience

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