Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) has celebrated its biggest ever year this year, with more than 43,000 attending the 12-day event before the curtain came down on the festival last night.
In addition to the 43,147 attending screenings and events across the city (up from 42,224 at GFF 2019), over 3000 people attended the first ever UK exhibition of work by legendary Hollywood photographer Susan Wood, which ran throughout the festival at The Lighthouse.
The 16th annual celebration of cinema finished in style on Sunday night with the UK premiere of How To Build A Girl, the big screen adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s blockbusting memoir directed by Coky Giedroyc.
Caitlin and Coky attended the premiere, joining the likes of Simon Pegg, George Mackay, Simon Bird, Celia Imrie, Bill Paterson, Alice Winocour and the cast of new Scottish smash-hit Our Ladies who all walked the Glasgow Film Festival red carpet over the past 12 days.
Glasgow City Council depute leader David McDonald said: “You really can’t miss the effect the Glasgow Film Festival has on the city.
"There is an extra buzz, a heightened vibrancy and a sense something special is happening.
"This has been another unforgettable celebration of film delivered by a festival which gets better and better every year".
The festival closed on International Women’s Day (IWD) yesterday with a programme dedicated to female talent both behind and in front of the camera.
A number of filmmakers came to celebrate IWD at the festival with their films including Sarah Gavron with Rocks; Saudi Arabia’s first female film director Haifaa Al-Mansour with her new film The Perfect Candidate; and the new feature from 2017 Glasgow Film Festival Audience Award winner Alankrita Shrivastava: Dolly Kitty and Those Twinkling Stars.
Glasgow Film Festival will return from 24 February to 7 March 2021.
