SQIFF

LGBT Health & Wellbeing Community Filmmaking
2019-10-06 17:15 - 18:15 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
LGBT Health & Wellbeing is a charity promoting the health, wellbeing, and equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Scotland and providing support, services, and information. Two of the organisation’s groups have recently created collectively-made short films, which we will showcase at this event. Return to the Closet? was created as part of a collaboration between Luminate, LGBT Health and Wellbeing, artist Glenda Rome, and participating community filmmakers. Luminate commissioned the film with support from LGBT Health and Wellbeing. This is a documentary exploring issues around care for older LGBT people. Everything Just Collapsed is an experimental short reflecting on stigma and survival by Tim Knights in collaboration with participants of The LGBT Mental Wellbeing Collective. Come and watch both movies and join in an open discussion on the process and value of community filmmaking.
Click here to find out more about Luminate. Click here for more information about LGBT Health & Wellbeing.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 12+.
Films have English audio with English language subtitles/captions. BSL interpretation for discussion. Hearing loop available.
Films are relatively accessible to English-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences with some visual storytelling but a reasonable amount of explanatory dialogue and voiceover and bright images. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
A Quiet Space and programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Black History Month: Portrait of Jason
2019-10-15 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Portrait of Jason shows sex worker and entertainer, Jason Holliday, recounting his life story for filmmaker Shirley Clarke.
Jason is the sole on-screen presence in the film. He narrates his life story to the camera, behind which Clarke and her partner at the time, actor Carl Lee, provoke and berate Jason with increasing hostility as the film progresses. The film alleges to employ avant-garde and cinéma vérité techniques to reach the tragedy underlying Jason’s performative persona. However, Portrait of Jason is one of if not the first documentation of black queer experiences and trauma exploited by white ‘gatekeepers’ for the sake of the artist’s cultural and financial capital gains.
Although Portrait of Jason is a landmark film, there is a need here to discuss the fuzzy problem of ‘visibility’ within the white/capitalist domination of visual culture. Are the lines between exposure and exploitation blurred in Portrait of Jason?
Curated and hosted by Sequoia Barnes, an art/design scholar and doctoral candidate at The School of Design with Edinburgh College of Art. Presented as part of Black History Month in partnership with Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER).
Free. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
Film has English audio with English language subtitles/captions. If you would like to attend this event and require BSL interpretation for the introduction/discussion, please email access@sqiff.org at least 2 weeks in advance.
Film is moderately accessible to English-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences with a lot of visual storytelling but some explanatory dialogue and all English language. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
Programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.

Black History Month: Calalai: In Betweenness + shorts
2019-10-22 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Calalai: In Betweenness by filmmaker Kiki Febriyanti depicts women in South Sulawesi Bugis culture, which for centuries has accepted gender diversity as implicit, believing humans consist of 5 genders, one of them being calalai. The film takes a closer look at the definition of femininity and masculinity in the Bugis culture. What or who is calalai? What are the dynamics of gender, spirituality, and performance? How do these dynamics define the everyday life of the Bugis people?
Screening with accompanying short films and discussion on queerness in Indonesian cultures outside of white, colonialist impositions.
Curated and hosted by artist and researcher Claricia Parinussa. Presented as part of Black History Month in partnership with Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER).
Free. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
Film languages tbc with English language subtitles/captions. If you would like to attend this event and require BSL interpretation for the discussion, please email access@sqiff.org at least 2 weeks in advance.
Accessibility of films to English-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences tbc. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
Programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.

SQIFF Shorts: Out of the Archives!
2020-02-08 18:00 - 2020-02-28 20:00 UTC
As part of LGBT History Month Scotland 2020, SQIFF presents a programme of short films looking back into largely unseen and undiscovered aspects of the history of queer Scottish representation in the 20th century.
Featuring archival documentaries and short films by queer filmmakers, screenings will be accompanied by discussions examining whether these films are a fair representation of the past, and asking what they may be able to contribute to an understanding of the future. Films include Bongo Erotico, a surreal nightmare of bisexual lust from 1950s’ Wishaw; groundbreaking documentary of Edinburgh queer life in the 80s, Coming Out; and Pratibha Parmar’s experimental 1990 short, Bhangra Jig, which follows a young Asian woman walking the streets of Glasgow with signs of colonialism ever-present.
Ages 12+. All screenings are in the English language with English language captions for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing access. A BSL interpreter will be available at the Glasgow event on 8th February. All venues have wheelchair access. Please get in touch via info[at]sqiff.org if you have any questions about access at any of the events.
Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and Lottery funding from the BFI.
To book, see list of screenings and links below.
CCA, Glasgow, Saturday 8th February, 6pm. Tickets on a sliding scale of free to £8. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Tuesday 11th February, 6pm. Tickets £5-8. To book, please use the button below or call DCA box office on +44 (0)1382 432 444.

50 George Square, University of Edinburgh in partnership with MSc Film, Exhibition and Curation, Tuesday 18th February, 6pm. Tickets offered on a sliding scale of free to £8. To book, please use the button below, or cash payments will be taken on the night.

Ayr Town Hall in partnership with Ayr Film Society and Ayrshire LGBTQ, Wednesday 19th February, 7 pm. Free, unticketed – just come along.
MacArts, Galashiels in partnership with Scottish Borders LGBT Equality. Sunday 23rd February, 2pm. Tickets offered on a sliding scale of free to £8. To book, please use the button below, or cash payments will be taken on the day.

Eden Court, Inverness in partnership with Highland Winter Pride, Friday 28th February, 6.30pm. Tickets £3.50-5.50. To book, please use the button below or call Eden Court box office on +44 (0)1463 234 234.

Oban Phoenix Cinema, Saturday 29th February, 6.15pm. Free. To book, please use the button below or call Oban Phoenix box office on +44 (0)1631 562 905.

Sqifflix: TRANSFINITE + shorts
2020-06-25 00:00 - 2020-06-28 23:30 UTC
TRANSFINITE is a sci-fi omnibus feature film by Neelu Bhuman composed of seven standalone short stories where supernatural trans and queer people from various cultures use their powers to protect, love, teach, fight, and thrive. Most of us have been in situations where we feel completely powerless and deeply frustrated with the unfairness of it all. Sometimes we have lost control of life and sometimes we find a way to use our rage, resentment, and frustrations to grow a beautiful garden. In TRANSFINITE, the protagonists, like smooth warriors, choose to find that inner power and use it to transform undesirable situations into desirable ones in a snap.
Screening with shorts FETISH and Something In The Closet. In Topher Campbell’s FETISH a multi-dimensional being bestrides the streets of New York in defiance and celebration as he embodies the past, present and future of Blackness. Featuring a mesmerising original score by Mercury Prize Award Winner’s Young fathers. Something In The Closet directed by Nosa Eke is about a queer teenager struggling with her sexuality, as desires manifest their way from the depths of her eerie closet into reality.
We are pleased to be hosting a live discussion with Black queer UK artists’ responses to the films on Saturday 27 June at 7pm. The discussion will take place on SQIFF’s Facebook page at facebook.com/sqiff. Hosted by writer and programmer Harvey Dimond with filmmaker Nosa Eke and other guests tbc.

In partnership with LGBT Health & Wellbeing. Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and Lottery funding from the BFI.
TRANSFINITE + shorts will be available online 25 to 28 June. Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 on a pay what you can basis. Films are viewable within UK and Ireland only. To book, please use the button below. We will email a link to the film to ticket holders and this will be available to view at any time between 25 to 28 June.

Access
Films have English, Navajo, Swahili, Spanish, Asura (in Japanese), and Tagalog audio with English language subtitles or captions.
Films are less accessible to blind and partially sighted audiences with lots of visual storytelling and large non-English language sections.
Loud and abrasive sound effects throughout the films.
Age recommendation of N/C 15+.
Content note: Discussion of racism including anti-blackness and violence; depiction of homophobia, transphobia, racism including anti-blackness, mild and/or animated violence, nudity, sex, vomit, and urine.
Live discussion with BSL interpretation and live captioning.

Dream Access Focus Group SOLD OUT
2020-10-10 14:00 - 16:00 UTC
**Please note this event is now sold out. You can join a waiting list by clicking Buy Tickets below and we will contact you if a space becomes available**
Disability provision is almost always a second thought even in places that are all about radical inclusivity – this is the case with queer spaces as well. This workshop is an opportunity to listen to advocates experiencing diverse disabilities, and to find solutions for radical access provisions in a collaborative way. Documentation of the event, in the form of a zine to share with SQIFF and other festivals, will provide a community-based, co created list of problems and suggested solutions, prioritising input from excluded communities rather than theoretical ‘best practices.’
Event led by Disabled activist Luke Murphy. Zine created by Dr of medieval queer+trans theology, storyteller, and zine-maker, Jonah Coman.
Please note this workshop is intended for Deaf and Disabled participants.

Tickets are free. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
BSL interpretation, live captioning, and live audio description are provided for the workshop. We will send instructions on how to access the live AD to all ticket holders before the event. Contact us by emailing info@sqiff.org if you would like any more information about live AD during the Festival.
The workshop is 2 hours long with a comfort break in the middle.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Q&A: Game on: queer disruptions in sport
2020-10-12 18:00 - 18:45 UTC
Game on: Queer Disruptions in Sport is a documentary which shines a light on the experiences of those with diverse identities within grassroots sport. The film features the stories of gay runners Csaba and Benjamin from Hungary; Natalie, a Scottish lesbian boxer; Pol, an intersex rower from Bulgaria, and a German trans woman footballer called Jessi. Join us for a live Q&A with the film’s director Maria Takacs, protagonists from the film, and LEAP Sports.
Presented in partnership with LEAP Sports Scotland, promoting LGBTI participation and ending LGBTI-phobia in sport. The Q&A will also be live-streamed to Facebook.

Free event. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
The event has BSL interpretation and live captioning.
The event is 45 minutes long.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Discussion: Film Programming for QTIPOC
2020-10-15 18:30 - 20:00 UTC
A conversation with QTIPOC film programmers from across the UK. We’ll be tackling questions such as: What does it mean to programme for us, by us? What unique and specific challenges are we facing? How do we curate safe and nourishing spaces for our communities? How do we take care of our selves while doing this grassroots work? Guest speakers include queer crip Black fat femme and Fringe! Queer film & arts fest and freelance film curator, Tara Brown, Director of CineQ and Festival Manager of SHOUT Festival, Rico Johnson-Sinclair, and Scottish-Zimbabwean artist, researcher, and curator, Natasha Thembiso Ruwona.
This event is only open to QTIPOC (queer, trans, and intersex people of colour).

Tickets are free. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
BSL interpretation, live captioning, and live audio description provided for the event. We will send instructions on how to access the live AD to all ticket holders before the event. Contact us by emailing info@sqiff.org if you would like any more information about live AD during the Festival.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America
2021-02-03 - 2021-02-18
Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America is a feature-length documentary revealing the untold stories of LGBT refugees and asylum seekers who have fled intense persecution from their home countries and who are resettling in the United States. As leadership in America continues to demonize immigrants and drastically restrict the flow of refugees and asylum seekers into the U.S., Unsettled follows Subhi, a gay Syrian refugee, Cheyenne and Mari, a lesbian couple from Angola, and Junior, a gender non-conforming gay man from the Congo, struggling to create new lives for themselves.
Click here to rent Unsettled on our Vimeo on Demand channel up until 17 February. You can rent the film on our pay what you can sliding scale of free to £8. Please note the film is only available to rent within the UK.
We are holding two free online events to discuss the themes of the film and the situation for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in the UK on 4 and 11 February. To book for our discussion 7-8pm on Thursday 11 February with Leni Candan from UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration Group and Solomon Adebayo LGBT Unity Scotland responding to the film, click the button below. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders on the day.

Presented in partnership with LGBT Unity Scotland, a community-led group providing essential support to LGBTQIA+ refugees, asylum seekers, and other migrants, and Scottish Borders LGBT Equality for LGBT History Month. Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and National Lottery funding from the BFI.

ACCESS
The film and events have an age recommendation of N/C 12+.
The film has English audio with English language captions. Live captioning provided for online discussions.
The film has quite a lot of dialogue and voiceover, all English language, and mostly bright images.
The film is 84 minutes long. Each discussion event is 1 hour long.
Content notes: Discussion and depiction of homophobic violence, honour-based violence, trauma, emotional distress, and substance abuse.

If you have any questions about accessibility for the film and events, please contact info@sqiff.org.
Film rental price

Rental of the film on our Vimeo on Demand is on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. Our sliding scale allows you to choose what to pay based on what you feel you can afford. No evidence or proof of circumstances is required. If you can afford to pay more, we really appreciate it as we rely on this income to pay queer people fairly for their work and keep the festival going.

LUX Scotland Presents: After the Ice, the Deluge
2021-10-07 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Artist, writer, and educator Linda Stupart screens their new experimental moving image work After the Ice, the Deluge, a mostly diptych film which consists of both Linda’s performance as well as their research in the Arctic. The work also makes use of degraded film to enhance its theme of traumatised bodies and climate change. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Linda Stupart about their work and the way it engages with queer theory and environmental crises.
In partnership with LUX Scotland, a non-profit agency dedicated to supporting, developing, and promoting artists’ moving image practices in Scotland.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 16+.
English audio with English language captions. BSL interpretation by Catherine King and Yvonne Strain for the discussion. Please note with apologies we may not have live captioning available for the intro.

90 minutes long.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel and internet data top-up costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2021, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Begana x SQIFF Joyland + Discussion Group SOLD OUT
2023-06-10 17:00 - 21:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
As the Ranas – a happily patriarchal joint family – yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for an ambitious trans starlet.
Their impossible love story slowly illuminates the entire Rana family’s desire for a sexual rebellion.

Discussion Group
After the screening, there will be a discussion group facilitated by Nat Raha to decompress together and unpack the themes and topics explored in the film.
Please note that the discussion group is exclusively for anyone who is a person of colour (POC) or identifies as LGBTQ+.
About Nat Raha
Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar, a South Asian British trans queer femme, and a Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Her books of poetry include Of sirens, Body & Faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018) and Apparitions (nines) (Winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize, forthcoming 2024). Recent critical and creative writing appears in Queer Print in Europe, 100 Queer Poems, Transgender Marxism, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, and Third Text (‘Imagining Queer Europe then and now’, 2021). With Mijke van der Drift, Nat co-edits Radical Transfeminism zine, and is currently co-authoring a book Trans Femme Futures: An Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (forthcoming, 2024).

Ticketing
The ticketing link for this event will be shared first with South Asian and queer communities to ensure that they have priority access. However, if you are a member of these communities and interested in attending the screening and have not received the ticketing link, please contact our Box Office boxoffice@cca-glasgow.com.

This screening is presented by Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) in collaboration with Begana: Musing on Queer South Asian Stories (programmed by Neha Apsara).

Tickets are FREE. To book, click here

Accessibility:
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
Punjabi and Urdu audio with English language captions.
Quiet Space available.
Audio Description available.
Induction Loop available.
126 minutes long.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the screening if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. Surgical masks will be available for free by the Quiet Space.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2023-07-01 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Are you a queer filmmaker wanting to meet other queer filmmakers and develop project ideas together?
The SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative to bring local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects. These sessions will be facilitated by a SQIFF member. We aim to grow the group in the future to become a collective of queer filmmakers in Glasgow.
The group is open for any level of filmmaking and we really encourage people just starting out in the medium to come along.
We got enough funding to run the monthly SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group sessions until June 2024, hope to see you all in every single session. Moreover, during one of the sessions later this year, we will run a short films pitch contest and we will be giving £500 to contribute towards the production of two films.
Session (1/12)
Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Tickets are FREE. To book, click here

Accessibility:
BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the event if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. Surgical masks will be available for free by the Quiet Space.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2023-08-12 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Are you a queer filmmaker wanting to meet other queer filmmakers and develop project ideas together?
The SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative to bring local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects. These sessions will be facilitated by a SQIFF member. We aim to grow the group in the future to become a collective of queer filmmakers in Glasgow.
The group is open for any level of filmmaking and we really encourage people just starting out in the medium to come along.
We got enough funding to run the monthly SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group sessions until June 2024, hope to see you all in every single session. Moreover, during one of the sessions later this year, we will run a short films pitch contest and we will be giving £500 to contribute towards the production of two films.
Session (2/12)
Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Tickets are FREE. To book, click here

Accessibility:
BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the screening if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. Surgical masks will be available for free by the Quiet Space.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2023-09-02 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Listen to this Event Page
Are you a queer filmmaker wanting to meet other queer filmmakers and develop project ideas together?
The SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative to bring local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects. These sessions will be facilitated by a SQIFF member. We aim to grow the group in the future to become a collective of queer filmmakers in Glasgow.
The group is open for any level of filmmaking and we really encourage people just starting out in the medium to come along.
We got enough funding to run the monthly SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group sessions until June 2024, hope to see you all in every single session. Moreover, during one of the sessions later this year, we will run a short films pitch contest and we will be giving £500 to contribute towards the production of two films.
Session (3/12)
Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Tickets are FREE. To book, click here

Accessibility:
BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the screening if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. Surgical masks will be available for free by the Quiet Space.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

Not Quite That
2023-09-30 12:30 - 14:30 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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‘Not Quite That’ follows 57-year-old Sarah, a butch lesbian predisposed to breast cancer.
Sarah discusses the implications of a mastectomy as a butch presenting person. She contemplates if people would perceive her as transmasculine and how that would make her feel.
Her long-term close friends listen attentively and help her process the situation. The love and support shared by this group of old friends is heartwarming. A feel-good film for sure.
This film is followed by two shorts. Director Leo Torre of The Ship of Theseus will join us to chat about short filmmaking and the importance of queer/trans friendships.
Curated by Nat Lall.

Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, £8, or £10. To book, click here or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

Not Quite That (2022, Dir. Ali Grant): Might a genetic mutation be the very thing that allows this nice Jewish butch lesbian to be fully seen at last? Meet Sarah, 57. Lesbian? For sure. Jewish? Yes and no. Mother? In all but one sense. Trans? No, just often mistaken as such. Breast cancer survivor? Well, that’s the plan, the survival bit, but without the cancer or the breasts. Not Quite That is an intimate and insightful exploration of how we are seen, how we see ourselves, and why it matters.
The Ship Of Theseus (2022, Dir. Leo Torre): A creative trans self-documentary video exploring themes of early transition and gender rebirth using themes of mythology and the sea.
Patricia in the Dark (2023, Dir. Laura Hartley): Born into a world where the word ‘transgender’ didn’t exist, 95-year-old Patricia spent most of her life longing for love and acceptance but too afraid to reveal her true self.

ACCESSIBLITY
Content Warnings:

Discussion of cancer diagnosis, surgery, gender dysphoria, body image, transphobia;
Depictions of pregnancy, nudity, drains, hospitalisation.

This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 16+.
60 minutes long with Q&A after the screening.
English and French audio with English language captions. BSL-English interpretation and live captioning provided.
Audio description available for the film. Headsets available at the cinema entrance.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel. If you would like to take this up, please visit the access desk at the entrance of the CCA, or contact info@sqiff.org.
You can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2023 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2023, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org or by phone on 07873 331 036.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the screening if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. FFP2 masks will be available for free around the building.
Image: from Not Quite That (2022, Dir. Ali Grant)

Documenting and Archiving
2023-09-30 15:30 - 17:30 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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This event is all about queer histories, past and present. It explores a range of approaches to documentation and archiving.
The programme alternates between shorts of around 5min and ‘longer shorts’ of 10+ minutes. The first films are about American and English histories of the 80s-90s. The next couple document millennial queer experiences surrounding advancements in technological communication. And the latter films tell of QTIBPOC resistance, love and solidarity.
This screening will conclude with a panel discussion hosting River Seager of I Am a Cyborg: Conversations About Queerness and Anime, and Campbell X of Still We Thrive, on the importance of documenting queer experiences.
Curated by Nat Lall.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, £8, or £10. To book, click here or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

Pride TM (2019, Dir. Hogan Seidel): An observational film about the changing environment surrounding pride festivals. This piece specifically looks at my current city of residence, Boston’s Pride Parade.
Stonewall Postal Action Network (2023, Dir. Sarah Elizabeth Drummond): Stonewall Postal Action Network (SPAN), is a short documentary, telling the story of Austin’s activism, his letter writing campaign and the packing up of his life work for an archive as he contemplates his legacy from his new home in rural Wales.
Digital Natives (2022, Dir. Jo Reid): Made as part of the BBC100 Make Film History project, Digital Natives is a personal exploration of a childhood on the internet. Using the computer desktop like a diary, Digital Natives reflects on posting as performance.
I Am a Cyborg: Conversations About Queerness and Anime (2023, Dir. River Seager): Composed of interviews with LGBT+ individuals, this is a documentary that discusses the popularity of anime in Queer communities. The visual style is heavily influenced by mid-2000s fandom aesthetics, and the discussions rotate around androgyny in anime, television censorship, identity formation, and fandom as a site of expression.
Still We Thrive (2022, Dir. Campbell X): Archive footage of Black history from the Caribbean, United Kingdom, United States and the African continent is interwoven with Black actors speaking direct to camera. Performers are Black – trans / non-binary, and cis including Martina Laird, Michelle Tiwo, Kim Tatum and Don Warrington. Included are poems A Negro Dreams of Rivers by Langston Hughes and Yemoja by Olive Senior. Still We Thrive is a balm to Black people’s mental health now being assailed by images of violence and trauma.
Aangan ‘a blooming space’ (2023, Dir. Shiv Priya): In the world of insensitivity and insecurity, some plants of the new generation of LGBTQI+ community members especially transgenders are flourishing in the courtyard of their Maai(Mother).

ACCESSIBLITY
Content Warnings:

Discussion of transphobia, homophobia, violence, jail, Section 28, bullying, colonisation, racism, slavery, physical abuse, mental abuse, sexual abuse, violence, abduction, sex work.

This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 18+.
85 minutes long with a Q&A after the screening.
English and Hindi audio with English language captions. BSL-English interpretation and live captioning provided for the intro and panel discussion.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel. If you would like to take this up, please visit the access desk at the entrance of the CCA, or contact info@sqiff.org.
You can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2023 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2023, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org or by phone on 07873 331 036.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the screening if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. FFP2 masks will be available for free around the building.
Image: from Still We Thrive (2022, Campbell X)

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2023-09-30 16:30 - 18:30 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Are you a queer filmmaker wanting to meet other queer filmmakers and develop project ideas together?
The SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative to bring local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects. These sessions will be facilitated by a SQIFF member. We aim to grow the group in the future to become a collective of queer filmmakers in Glasgow.

For this session, L.I.P.S. (Lesbians in Peer Support), a youth group that Glasgow Women’s Library ran from 2000 to 2006 will join us to screen ‘Dykes in the City’, a trilogy of three short films produced in collaboration with GMAC in 2001. The event will include a panel discussion with the filmmakers.

The group is open for any level of filmmaking and we really encourage people just starting out in the medium to come along.
We got enough funding to run the monthly SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group sessions until June 2024, hope to see you all in every single session. Moreover, during one of the sessions later this year, we will run a short films pitch contest and we will be giving £500 to contribute towards the production of two films.
Session (4/12)
Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Tickets are FREE. To book, click here

Accessibility:
Please get in touch by emailing info@sqiff.org if you have any access requirements to attend this session.
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 16+.
15 minutes long with Q&A after the screening.
English audio with English language captions. BSL-English interpretation and live captioning provided.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel. If you would like to take this up, please visit the access desk at the entrance of the CCA, or contact info@sqiff.org.
You can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2023 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2023, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org or by phone on 07873 331 036.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the screening if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. FFP2 masks will be available for free by the Quiet Space.
Image credit: SQIFF

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2023-11-04 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Are you a queer filmmaker wondering how to access funding and training opportunities? Are you looking for community with other queer filmmakers?
The Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative bringing local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects. This session has been set up in partnership with Short Circuit, who will be screening Living With It, an animation short developed as part of their Sharp Shorts funding scheme. The event will include a Q&A with talent executive Miriam Newman and Holly Summerson, the director of Living With It.
The group is open for any level of filmmaking and we really encourage people just starting out in the medium to come along.

Session (5/12)
Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Tickets are FREE. To book, click here

Accessibility:
BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the screening if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. Surgical masks will be available for free by the Quiet Space.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2023-12-09 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Are you a queer filmmaker who needs funding for their upcoming film project? Are you looking for community with other queer filmmakers?
The Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative bringing local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects. We are seeking ideas for short films of up to 15 minutes that can be completed by the 1st of June 2024. Come tell us about your idea during this pitching session for the chance of receiving £500 from SQIFF to support the production of your film. Email us at info@sqiff.org before 5pm on the 8th of December to register pitch interest. We will only consider pitches done in person.
The group is open for any level of filmmaking and we really encourage people just starting out in the medium to come along.
Session (6/12)
Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Tickets are FREE. To book, click here

Accessibility:
BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the screening if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. Surgical masks will be available for free by the Quiet Space.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2024-01-13 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Are you a queer filmmaker wanting to meet other queer filmmakers and develop project ideas together? Have you ever wanted to test your skills by participating in a 48h film?
A 48h film is a film planned, filmed and developed in under 48 hours – a perfect test of your creativity and a great opportunity to connect with fellow filmmakers. During this month’s session, we will be setting up groups and guidelines for SQIFF’s 48h film project. The themes, required elements and time frames for the project will be discussed in person. You will afterwards be sent out to produce your films. All films developed as part of the project will be screened at a later Queer Filmmakers Group session.
The SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative to bring local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects. We aim to grow the group in the future to become a collective of queer filmmakers in Glasgow.
The group is open for any level of filmmaking and we really encourage people just starting out in the medium to come along.
Session (7/12)
Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Tickets are FREE. To book, click here

Accessibility:
BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the event if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. FFP2 masks will be available for this event.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2024-02-03 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Are you a queer filmmaker wanting to meet other queer filmmakers and develop project ideas together? Do you enjoy talking about filmmaking and would like to see what queer filmmakers in Scotland have been up to?
During our last session, we sent members out with guidelines to plan, film and develop short films in under 48 hours. During this month’s session, we will be screening these shorts and discussing the specifics of making films in the space of a weekend. Come join us to watch horror, sci-fi and explorations of queer temporalities!
The SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative to bring local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects. We aim to grow the group in the future to become a collective of queer filmmakers in Glasgow.
The group is open for any level of filmmaking and we really encourage people just starting out in the medium to come along.
Session (8/12)
Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Tickets are FREE. To book, click here

Accessibility:
BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the screening if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. Surgical masks will be available for free by the Quiet Space.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2024-03-02 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Are you a queer filmmaker and have a script you’d like feedback on? Do you enjoy talking about script writing or would like to learn more about it? Are you a queer actor looking for local film projects to take part in?
Come join us for the Queer Filmmakers Group script writing session. If you can, please print out and bring a maximum of 5 pages from a script you’ve written. Alternatively, you can also bring 5 script pages from a film or TV show you really enjoy. We will be dissecting and discussing scripts and chatting about script brainstorming, outlines, drafts, formatting…
During this session, we will also have a check-in with the awardees from our Short Film Pitch session back in December, who will be giving us a progress update on their projects.
The SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative to bring local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects. We aim to grow the group in the future to become a collective of queer filmmakers in Glasgow.
The group is open for any level of filmmaking or film supporting arts (acting, prop making, music and sound design…) and we really encourage people just starting out in these mediums to come along.
Session (9/12)
Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Tickets are FREE. To book, click here

Accessibility:
BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the event if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. FFP2 masks will be available at this event.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2024-04-06 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Is your queer film production in need of filmmaking equipment? Are you a queer scriptwriter curious to learn about lightning, exposure and white balance? Or are you otherwise a queer artist seeking film related learning opportunities?
For this month’s Queer Filmmakers Group, we have partnered up with No Drama, an independent rental house specialising in the hire of digital cameras, lenses and more. A No Drama team member will come through on Saturday to deliver a session on camera specifics, their rental catalogue and booking procedures. They will bring some of their equipment along too.
The SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative to bring local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects. We aim to grow the group to become a collective of queer filmmakers in Glasgow.
The group is open for any level of filmmaking or film supporting arts (acting, prop making, music and sound design…) and we really encourage people just starting out in these mediums to come along.
Session (10/12)
Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Tickets are FREE. To book, click here

Accessibility:
BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the screening if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. Surgical masks will be available for free by the Quiet Space.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2024-05-11 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Ever watched a film festival trailer and thought “I bet that’s fun to make”? You’d be right and now’s your chance to join in the fun!
This month’s Queer Filmmakers Group will include a walk down memory lane with a screening of previous SQIFF festival trailers and a discussion about trailer making. Part of the session will be oriented towards developing the SQIFF24 trailer together, so come help us plan the production of the one-minute film that will open SQIFF events this autumn!
Screening running time: 8 minutes.
The SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative to bring local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects. We aim to grow the group to become a collective of queer filmmakers in Glasgow.
The group is open for any level of filmmaking or film supporting arts (acting, prop making, music and sound design…) and we really encourage people just starting out in these mediums to come along.
Session (11/12)
Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Tickets are FREE. To book, click here

Accessibility:
BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the event if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. FFP2 masks are available for this event.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2024-06-01 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Welcome to the 12th session of SQIFF’s Queer Filmmakers Group. What a year it has been!
We’d like you to join us for a screening of the brand new, member-made, SQIFF24 trailer and for a discussion about the festival circuit. We will also reflect about these last 12 months of holding this collaborative space, what we’ve enjoyed and what we’d like to do next!
Screening running time: 1 minute.
The SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative to bring local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects. We aim to grow the group to become a collective of queer filmmakers in Glasgow.
The group is open for any level of filmmaking or film supporting arts (acting, prop making, music and sound design…) and we really encourage people just starting out in these mediums to come along.
Session (12/12)
Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Tickets are FREE. To book, click here

Accessibility:
BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the event if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. FFP2 masks are available for this event.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

SQIFF x Porty Pride Film Night
2024-06-28 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Portobello Town Hall, 147-149 Portobello High Street, Edinburgh, EH15 1AF
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This year SQIFF and Porty Pride are partnering to bring an exciting selection of short films from Scotland and beyond to Portobello Town Hall!
This screening presents a mix of animation, documentary and fiction film exploring various queer identities. The Singer, Coming Out Autistic and Living with It are Scottish films made by queer people with various disabilities. Still We Thrive is an experimental documentary directed by Campbell X, showcasing a rich tapestry of image, music and poetry is interwoven in this powerful meditation on Black resilience. Digital Natives is a personal film and exploration of Jo’s relationship to the internet. Finally, Not Quite That is a raw documentary about a queer woman and breast cancer survivor in Canada. The film is an intimate and insightful exploration of how we are seen, how we see ourselves, and why it matters.
Join us for an incredible conversation after the screening with Scottish filmmaker Holly Summerson, and hosted by Nat Lall. BSL-English Interpretation, and wheelchair access are available at this event.
Curated by Indigo Korres.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of £5, or £10. To book, please click here.

The Singer (2023, Dir. Cora Bissett): In the loud streets of Glasgow, deaf song-writer Joe meets busker Andy. The two learn to communicate over their love of music and realise together they can create something unique.
Coming Out Autistic (2023, Steven Fraser): This animated documentary explores the experience of telling the world that you are autistic when you also identify as LGBTQ+.
Living with It (2023, Holly Summerson): Perfectionist Lee must adapt to the imperfect reality of living with an illness – brought to life as her chaotic supernatural flatmate Bug.
Still We Thrive (2021, Campbell X): A rich tapestry of image, music and poetry is interwoven in this powerful meditation on Black resilience.
Digital Natives (2022, Jo Reid): A film by Jo Reid (2022) – an exploration of Jo’s relationship to the internet.
Not Quite That (2023, Ali Grant): Might a genetic mutation be the very thing that allows this nice Jewish butch lesbian to be fully seen at last? Meet Sarah, 57. Lesbian? For sure. Jewish? Yes and no. Mother? In all but one sense. Trans? No, just often mistaken as such. Breast cancer survivor? Well, that’s the plan, the survival bit, but without the cancer or the breasts. Not Quite That is an intimate and insightful exploration of how we are seen, how we see ourselves, and why it matters.

ACCESSIBLITY
Content Warnings:

Discussion of cancer diagnosis, surgery, colonialism, body image;
Depictions of pregnancy, nudity, drains, hospitalisation, ableism.

This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 16+.
89 minutes long with a introduction and Q&A.
English audio and British Sign Language with English language descriptive subtitles. BSL-English interpretation provided.
If you have any questions about accessibility at for this event, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the screening if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case.
Image: from Living with It (2023, Dir. Holly Summerson)

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2024-07-06 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Our July session has been developed in partnership with the Scottish Documentary Institute.
During this session, we will screen Big Moves, a short film directed by Glasgow based, queer working-class filmmaker Sarah Grant: “After a lifetime of being told that she, as a fat person, could not dance (and believing it), Glasgow filmmaker Sarah Grant was very surprised to learn when doing dance classes over zoom in the pandemic (with the camera off, of course), that this was a big fat lie.”
Screening time: 14 minutes
Big Moves was developed through SDI’s Bridging the Gap programme, which will be opening a call out for applications soon. Come along as we watch the film and then hold conversation space with Alexandra Colta, SDI’s head of Talent Development & Distribution.
SDI nurtures filmmakers and supports author-driven, compelling, thought-provoking documentaries for the big screen. One of their programmes, Bridging the Gap, offers development training, a cash budget, and one year of international festival distribution to emerging filmmakers based in Scotland and Northern Ireland. They also provide year-round tailored consultancies, workshops, masterclasses and so much more.
This is a great opportunity to understand the processes in applying for support from SDI for any short documentary films you are hoping to develop and learn more about their catalogue of opportunities.
About the group
The SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative to bring local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects.
The group is open for any level of filmmaking or film supporting arts (acting, prop making, music and sound design…) and we really encourage people just starting out in these mediums to come along.
Join a very friendly and supportive cohort of queer artists in Scotland making films!

This session is delivered thanks to support from See Me Scotland, No Drama, Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, £8, £10, or £12. To book, click here or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

Accessibility:
BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
FFP2 masks are available for this event. We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the event if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2024-08-03 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Do you have information about free, open source editing software? Perhaps you know of an incredibly helpful way of memorising scripts? Or maybe you use a particular template to develop film ideas?
Come share with your peers in this Queer Filmmakers Group session!
The August session will be very member focused. We will collectively discuss advice we have picked along the way and different techniques used to make the filmmaking process less tiresome.
This is also a great opportunity to discuss any ongoing projects you need support with. Sharing with the group might get an audio designer interested in helping out with the foley you’re struggling with or get people to review a script you’ve been working on.

About the group
The SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative to bring local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects.
The group is open for any level of filmmaking or film supporting arts (acting, prop making, music and sound design…) and we really encourage people just starting out in these mediums to come along.
Join a very friendly and supportive cohort of queer artists in Scotland making films!

This session is delivered thanks to support from See Me Scotland, No Drama, Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance, Transmission.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, £8, £10, or £12. To book, click here or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

Accessibility:
BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the event if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. FFP2 masks are available for this event.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

Donate:
Donate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨Patre

SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group
2024-09-14 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Have a passion for documentaries, TV programmes and series? Curious about how films that follow no scripts get made? Want to learn about how to get into the medium?
Come get a feel for unscripted filmmaking at the upcoming Queer Filmmakers Group session, developed with Screen Scotland. Dani Carlaw, Head of Unscripted, is joining us to give us insight into how projects get developed and produced through the programme. It will be a great chance to ask questions about Unscripted and other Screen Scotland schemes.
We will also have a moment to check in about ongoing projects and share support requests, queries and other concerns with your peers.
The SQIFF Queer Filmmakers Group is an initiative to bring local queer filmmakers together for monthly two-hour group sessions to network and support each other in the development of film projects.
The group is open for any level of filmmaking or film supporting arts (acting, prop making, music and sound design…) and we really encourage people just starting out in these mediums to come along.
This session is delivered thanks to support from See Me Scotland, No Drama, Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance, Transmission.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, £8, £10, or £12. To book, click here or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

Accessibility:
BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
Relaxed event.
Wheelchair Access.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the event if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. FFP2 masks are available for this event.
If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org.

Donate:
Donate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨

From Production to Festival: Crafting Accessible Films with We Crip Film
2024-10-08 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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Join the British Film Institute’s (BFI) ‘We Crip Film’ in celebrating disabled rage, intersectionality, & queer joy in the film industry. Together, we will go on a journey of giving birth to a film. From production all the way through to film festival aftercare answering the many conundrums “how do I balance access and creativity?”, “how can I advocate for myself and my access needs?” and of course, the classic “how the f*** can I make this film accessible when I have zero money?”. Do not fret, We Crip Film is on the case!
We will delve deep into a case study of access-dedicated film festivals, defining what is and is NOT best practice and discussing the results and impact of FWD-DOC’s film festival accessibility scorecard.
You will leave this panel feeling ready to kick some inaccessible ass and be in possession of some incredible practical filmmaking and exhibition resources which will be shared with everyone in attendance.
Joining on the panel will be:

Clare Baines (BFI, Inclusion Partner) moderator
Charlie Little (Matchbox Cine, film exhibition access consultant)
Lindsey Dryden (filmmaker & fwddoc)
Tara Brown (the queer fat crip film programmer)

We Crip Film, is the BFI’s Disability Screen Advisory Group. First formed in 2018 and now in Its sixth year chaired by Kyla Harris (BBC’s We Might Regret This) & co-chaired by Justin Edgar (104films). We support and advocate for authentic disability representation & disabled talent behind the camera, on-screen, within our cinemas and UK-wide. We believe in cross-disability solidarity. We work in coalition with other groups who have experienced marginalisation in accomplishing our goals.
This panel will be followed by some accessible networking. We all know that standing round with some drinks isn’t for everyone, and often incredibly inaccessible, so join us in some crip-friendly “networking”. Think wholesome fun, where you can yap with people on projects and build long-lasting connections & hopefully friendships.
Curated by BFI We Crip Film.

Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, £8, £10, or £12. To book, click here or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

Accessibility
This programme has:

English-BSL interpretation for the whole event
Live Captioning for the whole event

You can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2024 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2024, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org or by phone on 07873 331 036.

Donate:
Donate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨

Image Credit: BFI We Crip Film
