Call for FOH Volunteers for Comedy Film Screenings

Southside Film is a volunteer run organisation that hosts an annual film festival and regular film screenings and events throughout the year. We are looking for new FOH volunteers for our late night  comedy film screenings at Govanhill Baths over two weekends in March, part of Glasgow Comedy Festival.

Screening details:
Fri 13 March: American: The Bill Hicks Story (15)
Sat 14 March: Witnail & I (15)
Fri 20 March: In the Loop (15)
Sat 21 March: Best in Show (12)

All screenings are in Govanhill Baths on 99 Calder St, Govanhill, Southside Glasgow, G42 7RA.
All screenings start at 10pm and volunteer shifts will be from 9pm to midnight. Cost of taxis home/travel expenses will be covered.

Volunteers on any one shift get free entry to all other screenings over the two weekends in March and opportunity to get involved in future Southside Film screenings and activities.

We are looking for friendly and helpful FOH volunteers who will be able to check and take tickets, direct people into the screenings, help with any other enquires from the audience and tidy up the screening space after screenings.

Experience in a previous customer service role, paid or voluntary, is desirable. Interest in cinema and filmmaking is also desirable for this role. Knowledge of Govanhill Baths and the Southside of Glasgow is preferable but not essential. Volunteers should be 18 years old or over.

Please send your CV along with a note of your available dates to volunteer to Karen O'Hare at southsidefilmfest@gmail.com by 5pm on Tuesday 3 March.

Call for Volunteers- Treasurer & Secretary

Southside Film is looking for new volunteers in the key roles of Treasurer & Secretary 

Southside Film is dedicated to bringing film back to Southside Glasgow, an area with no local cinema and, until Southside Film started in May 2011, no regular film screenings or events.

We plan to run the film festival in October 2015 and to continue to provide screenings and film events throughout 2015. We are looking for new volunteers to fill the key roles of Secretary and Treasurer.  Are you interested in joining us?

Role description: Treasurer

Managing the box office at screenings/events which includes:
- ordering and collecting printed tickets or creating ticket info for online sales prior to screenings; 
- organising floats for screenings/events and managing box office sales at screenings/events;
- banking cash after screenings
- submitting box office figures to distributors.

Coordinating, checking and processing volunteer expense claims.

Monitoring the bank account and acting as signature on the bank account.

Responsible for paying invoices on time and liasing with film distributors and filmmakers re payments.

Reporting on finances at Southside Film monthly meetings including producing an income/ ticket reconciliation per screening and producing an annual financial report.

Produce final company accounts and submit to HMRC annually.
 
Have a shared responsibility with the company directors for ensuring that CIC paperwork is filed and  for the payment of annual company fees and taxes.

Optional company director role.

Role description: Secretary

Organising, preparing agendas for meetings and taking minutes at monthly meetings.
Keeping a true and accurate record of these minutes and circulating the minutes to everyone involved.

Assist with all Southside Film correspondence including email, press and online correspondence.

Overseeing the updating and maintenance of various social media channels and the Southside Film website.

Coordinate the e-newsletter communication - promote, collect and administrate the monthly Mail Chimp e-newsletter to those signed up to the Southside Film mailing list.

Coordinate the design, printing and distribution of flyers and posters for Southside Film year round activity. 

Manage the administration of Southside Filmmakers Award entries and award at annual film festival.

Coordinate the evaluation and monitoring of screenings and/or events including producing, distributing and collecting monitoring and evaluation forms and then collating this info into event and annual reports.

Help to source and organise film prints and licenses and liaise with film distributors and filmmakers.

Coordinate the booking of screening venues and liaise with venue contacts.

Volunteering at screenings and/or events.

Have a shared responsibility with company directors for ensuring CIC paperwork is filed and overseeing other company related correspondence.

Optional company director role.

We expect that the Treasurer and Secretary will have to commit approximately half a day a month to Southside Film activity, to attend monthly two hour meetings in the Southside and to attend screenings and events during the film festival in October 2015 and throughout the year when possible.

Southside Film is volunteer run and operates as a community interest company, investing any profits back into the organisation to provide future free or affordable film screenings, events, workshops and other opportunities.

These roles are voluntary but as per the festival’s Volunteer Policy, expenses will be covered.

Find out more about Southside Film here: 
http://southsidefilmfestival.net
https://www.facebook.com/SouthsideFilmFestival 
http://twitter.com/southfilmfest

Please apply by sending your CV and/or web link to Karen O'Hare at southsidefilmfest@gmail.com along with a statement explaining what you bring to the festival and why you want to support Southside Film.

Deadline is 5pm, 17 February, 2015.

First 2015 screenings announced

Happy New Year everyone! 

We have a special sci fi screening on Tues 20th Jan of Death Watch shot in Glasgow in 1979 and starring Harvey Kietel and featuring Southsider Robbie Coltrane in his first film role. Part of BFI Sci-FI, together with O2 bfi.org.uk/scifi  Thanks to Film Hub Scotland for their support of this screening. 

In February we team up with Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) to screen Hit So Hard a documentary about Patty Schemel, celebrated drummer in the band Hole, part of LGBT History Month. 

In March we continue the music theme with The Possibilities are Endless, the beautiful film about Edwin Collins' recovery but also about the power of music and love. 

In April at The Glad Cafe in the run up to Record Store day we are screening Sound it Out, a documentary about the last remaining record store in Teeside. 

We also have special late night screenings in The Steamie at Govanhill Baths for Glasgow Comedy Festival. Don't miss cult comedy classic Withnail & I the hilarious mockumentary Best in Show, cutting satire of In the Loop and The Bill Hicks Story about a seriously funny comedian taken too soon from this world.

Advance online ticket sales for all screenings available from http://www.wegottickets.com/southsidefilmfestival

Autumn Film Club screenings

Southside Film Festival Film Club is returning with an exciting autumn season of music films in The Glad Cafe and two very special screenings for Halloween in Pollok House and Pollokshaws Burgh Hall.  

Glad Cafe screenings

On Tuesday 9 September we start the season with The Punk Singer, the 2013 documentary about Kathleen Hanna, who rose to international attention as the voice of the riot grrrl movement and was lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons of the era and this film tells us her story through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews. This screening will be followed by live music from local punk bank SHARPTOOTH.

On Tuesday 14 October there is a chance to see Pulp: a Film about Life, Death and Supermarkets, a documentary about the enduring career of Sheffield’s finest musical export, Pulp, who found fame on the world stage in the 1990's with anthems including 'Common People' and 'Disco 2000'. Directed by Florian Habicht, the band shares their thoughts on just about everything and gives a stunning performance exclusive to the film.

On Tuesday 4 November The Glad Cafe hosts a screening of We Are the Best! Directed by Swedish auteur Lukas Moodysson, We Are the Best! revolves around three girls in 1980’s Stockholm who decide to form a punk band – despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

Finishing The Glad Cafe music season on Tuesday 9 December is a film that needs no introduction: This is Spinal Tap. Rob Reiner’s cult mockumentary about the British heavy metal band is interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's mesmerising music and profound lyrics, as the film candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis. We will endeavour to turn the sound right up to 11!

Halloween screenings

On Friday 31 October there will be a screening of Don’t Look Now, Nicolas Roeg’s innovative, perception altering modern classic - preceded by a two course Italian-themed dinner with a glass of prosecco. This unique cinema and culinary experience will be held in the decadent surroundings of Pollok House, one of Scotland’s grandest Edwardian country homes. Sample a taste of Italy in the award winning Edwardian Kitchen restaurant and enjoy a pre-film drink in the scholarly surroundings of the Pavilion Library overlooking the gardens of the house, before being led through to the Maxwell family Dining Room for the screening of Don’t Look Now.  Advance booking is essential for this event and is strictly adults only. Full menu online soon. Email any dietary requirements to southsidefilmfest@gmail.com 

Following that on Sunday 2 November, Pollokshaws Burgh Hall hosts a screening of The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, the 1927 silent thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With its trick shots, menace and the quivering stare of Ivor Novello, this silent classic ishelped shape the modern-day thriller genre. Accompanied by live music on the mighty Wurlitzer Cinema Organ. 

Buy tickets online for all screenings at Brown Paper Tickets 

Do you want to join Southside Film Festival?

Southside Film Festival was founded in 2011 as a response to the lack of local cinema on the Southside. In 2014, there are plans for a local cinema in Shawlands and a multiplex at Silverburn so the film festival thinks this is a good time to refocus the aims and objectives of the festival. 

We are establishing an Advisory Board to help steer the next stage of Southside Film Festival’s development and want to hear from anyone that is interested in joining us at this exciting time. 

  

We are particularly are interested in hearing from filmmakers, writers, musicians, artists and other creative practitioners based in the Southside of Glasgow who have a passion for cinema going and film in all its forms. 

We are also keen to hear from those with experience in community arts development /fundraising, audience development, journalism and business. 

However, do also please get in touch if you just love the Southside and want to support a positive cultural initiative in your community or love film and filmmaking.   

We expect that we will have Quarterly Advisory Board Meetings and that board members will be asked to contribute ideas and expertise as appropriate. 

The Board positions are voluntary but, as per the festival’s Volunteer Policy, expenses will be covered.  

NB We are also looking for New Volunteers-Treasurer & Secretary-find out more here

Southside Film Festival is a volunteer run film festival, film club and film event producer which operates as Community Interest Company (SC418100).  

Find out more about Southside Film Festival here:

http://southsidefilmfestival.net

https://www.facebook.com/SouthsideFilmFestival 

http://twitter.com/southfilmfest

Please apply by sending your CV and web link (if applicable) to southsidefilmfest@gmail.com along with a statement explaining  what you bring to the Advisory Board and why you want to support Southside Film Festival. 

Deadline is midnight 31st August, 2014. 

If you have any questions please email Karen O’Hare on southsidefilmfest@gmail.com.