Warming up for GFF 2010

It’s still a few months away but preparations for next year’s Glasgow Film Festival are already in progress and we wanted to be the first to give you a snap shot of what’s lined up. Last year’s event included the premiere of one of Britain’s finest political satires in recent years (that would be In the Loop), a retrospective of shorts by cult artist and performer Miranda July, a plethora of events which fused music and images, not to mention a David Lynch inspired clubbing experience. With this in mind GFF 2010 really does have quite a lot to live up to, so what can we expect?

Building on Glasgow’s formidable musical heritage the Glasgow Music Film Festival looks set to grow. Look out for multi-platform projects which utilise music and visuals from top acts in a host of different venues. This year’s retrospective will be devoted to style icon Cary Grant – stay tuned for details of which of his most well-loved films will be up on the big screen. And there’s also the Glasgow Shorts Film Festival, the hugely popular FrightFest and a strand dedicated to cinema from Japan.

The focus is on film in the broadest sense, with events that take the moving image out of the cinema to new places and change the way we interact with them. There’s no other film festival that embraces such a varied programme; start getting excited now.