SQIFF holds an annual 5 day event in Glasgow alongside year round one-off events. We are an organisation by and for LGBTQIA+ communities in Scotland. Our aims are to give people a chance to watch movies they wouldn’t otherwise get a chance to see and…
SQIFF 2019 will take place in Glasgow 2nd to 6th October and submissions are now open. We’re using Film Freeway to accept submissions this year. To find out more and submit your film, click here. We are charging a relatively small amount for submissions for…
We interviewed Glasgow-based artist and filmmaker Natasha Lall about her film Pink Excavation. Tell us a bit about yourself and your work as an artist and filmmaker. Hello, I’m Natasha (or Nat, whatever) Lall and i’m a multimedia artist. I’m QTIPOC, disabled and gender non-conforming….
We asked Sonya Mulligan, director of new documentary Outitude, about creating a film about the Irish lesbian community. How did your film Outitude come about? Myself and Ger Moane (the producer) go regularly to GAZE [LGBTQ film festival in Dublin] and have always enjoyed seeing…
We asked Shine Louise Houston, filmmaker and founder of queer porn company Pink + White Productions, about her work. How did you first get into adult filmmaking? It was 2004 and I was working at San Francisco sex toy retailer Good Vibrations and we had a…
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work to date. Born in Bellflower, CA in 1981, I currently live in Los Angeles and work as a Housing Case Manager for chronically homeless adults. My practice draws from the quotidian to make queer bonds and sociality into…
SQIFF 2018 takes place 5th to 9th December in Glasgow. We are recruiting for a freelance Social Media Assistant to help make this year’s Festival happen. See below for full information on the roles. To apply, please email a CV and covering letter to helen…
Tell us a bit about the shorts programme, Picture This, you’ve put together for SQIFF this year. What can people who attend expect? My shorts programme is a series of short LGBTQ+ films surrounding the subjects of disability, dating, and sex. I feel these things…
SQIFF are recruiting volunteers for this year’s Festival! SQIFF 2018 will take place 5th – 9th December in Glasgow. A training session which all volunteers are expected to attend will be held on the afternoon of Saturday 1st December 2018 at the Centre for Contemporary…
We’ve announced the full programme for our fourth annual Scottish Queer International Film Festival! SQIFF 2018 will open on Wednesday 5 December at Glasgow Film Theatre with an exciting and boundary-pushing night of contemporary LGBTQ+ shorts from around the world, all seen in Scotland for…