Halfway through....

Its Saturday night and we're over halfway through the inaugural Southside Film Festival!

Friday was a brilliant start to the festival with over 100 people coming to the Shed for the composing music for film seminar, American Cousins and Forest of Black music videos. And more at the at the screening of Artists Films with lots of folk ending the night at iBop.

{a very dark Loft room screening of Forest of Black music videos}

Today has been busy with lots of events happening in different places all over the Southside.  I was helping out at the screenings at the Pearce Institute of Red Skirts on Clydeside and You Play Your Part where there was an impromptu discussion afterwards by some of the participants of the You Play Your Part film.

{post-screening discussions at Pearce Institute}

Tomorrow there are 6 events on offer starting with a selection of films from Starting Block (14:00 @ The Shed - Main Hall, £5), moving onto the screening of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (15:00 @ The Shed - The Loft, £5) have you seen the amazing posters the Society has printed for this screening dotted about the Southside?

There is a change of venue from the hidden gardens to the boat shed for Summer Stories: Short Films (16:00 @ Boat Shed, Queens Park, donations).  Then to the Shed for the first Southside Filmmakers Screening & Award (16:00 @ The Shed - Main Hall, £5), find out more about the selection of films here which include documentaries, music videos, drama, black comedy and the first Urdu/Hindi sitcom!!

Then its over to Pollokshaws Burgh Hall for the two final events, a screening of short films Close & Fridge with intro and Q&A from Gary Lewis (18:30 @ Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, £5) and then the closing film of the festival Nosferatu with live Wurlitzer Organ accompaniment (20:00 @ Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, £5).