18/11/2015 - Festival announces several new strands

The Glasgow Film Festival (GFF, 17-28 February 2016), hitherto solely an audience facing event, will introduce a new industry programme in its next edition. The GFF Industry Focus (24-25 February) will bring together international filmmakers, funding bodies and industry insiders for a two-day seminar within the festival programme which the festival hopes will offer benefits to Scotland’s film and television industry, and to visiting filmmakers from around the world.

The GFF is also introducing new programme strands, including ‘Dream Teams on the Silver Screen’ that will focus on classic Hollywood double acts like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Doris Day and Rock Hudson, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers, and Robert Redford and Paul Newman. Another new strand ‘Roads To The South’ will celebrate some of the work currently being created in Argentina, which has seen a renaissance in the past two decades.

Festival Co-Director Allan Hunter said, “‘Dream Teams on the Silver Screen’ celebrates the very finest Hollywood duos, individuals who made cinema history together in unforgettable classics. Meanwhile, the international reaction to films like 2009’s The Secret In Their Eyes [+see also:
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making of
Interview Juan José Campanella [IT]
Interview Ricardo Darín [IT]
Interview Soledad Villemin [IT]
film profile] and this year’s Wild Tales [+see also:
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film profile], which premiered at GFF15, has been part of the surge of interest in Argentine cinema and ‘Roads To The South’ is designed to celebrate the range of bright new talents in Argentinean filmmaking making their mark around the world.”

Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, Creative Scotland, the British Film Institute and EventScotland support GFF. The full programme will be announced on 20 January.