Glasgow Short Film Festival: Watch the trailer

Ahead of each edition, Glasgow Short Film Festival commissions a trailer to play before its short film programmes, and over the years these promos have proven to be little short film gems all their own.

Since 2012, the honour (or as GSFF director Matt Lloyd sometimes describes it, the poison chalice) of making the trailer has gone to the previous year’s winner of the audience award for best Scottish short. This year the commission fell to Edinburgh-based filmmaker Scott Willis, who won the audience prize last year for vivid documentary Dear Peter, which follows Willis as he tracks down the original owner of a huge collection of postcards he found in an Edinburgh bookshop.

Dear Peter was mysterious, funny and eventually very moving; Willis’ trailer for GSFF certainly shares these first two qualities. To mark the festival’s tenth edition, Willis has roped in Jim Turnbull, who’s evidently a master of the club singer style as featured on Shooting Stars, to do a shambolic rendition of Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday, complete with 8-bit karaoke background visuals. Take a look at the trailer in the player above; below is a little look back at previous GSFF trailers.

2016: The confused dad one aka “ye canny go wrong with Batman” (dir. James Price)

2015: The 'Andrei Tarkovsky existential musings' one (dir. Cara Connolly and Martin Clark)

2014: The 'popcorn kernels arguing about Top Gun' one (dir. Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson)

2013: The horror one (dir. Ciara Barry; Claire McInnes; Nora Smyth and Paul Whyte)

2012: The short shorts one (dir. Stuart Elliott)

2011: The first one aka "I'll no huv that" (dir. Davey Swatpaz)