Big Screen Talent Announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2024
George Mackay, Emily Hampshire, Viggo Mortensen, Maxine Peake, Dale Dickey, Solly Mcleod and more will walk the red carpet at Glasgow Film Festival this year.
Filmmaking talent includes Love Lies Bleedingdirector Rose Glass; Glasgow-born Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald; BAFTA-winning British-Palestinian director Farah Nabulsi; festival favourite Ben Wheatley; and Murray Grigor, director of the newly-restored Billy Connolly documentary
Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet.
The festival celebrates its 20th edition with 12 packed days of cinema from
28 February to 10 March.
Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) has announced the big screen stars that will be visiting the city for its 20th annual celebration of cinema.
Walking the red carpet will be 1917 star George Mackay at the Scottish premiere of sci-fi romance The Beast (7 March); Schitt’s Creek and The Rig star Emily Hampshire at the World premiere of her new horror Mom(9 March); Breaking Bad’s Dale Dickey, one of Hollywood’s leading character actresses, with revenge thriller The G (29 February);Dance First’sMaxine Peakewith the UK premiere of new dystopian sci-fi Woken (3 March); The Goldstar Nichola Burley with the World premiere of haunting Cornish drama Edge of Summer (8 March) and The Vampire Diaries’ Sara Canning in the World premiere of The Burning Season (3 March), a tragic love story told backwards. Three-time Best Actor Oscar nominee and Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen will also be in town for GFF, doing a special live In Conversation event and introducing the UK premiere of his new Western, The Dead Don’t Hurt (3 March), which he directs and stars in.
Scottish talent attending includes award-winning comedian Janey Godley at the World premiere of the new documentary about her final tour following her terminal cancer diagnosis Janey(10 March); Beats and Shetland star Lorn Macdonaldat the World premiere of Glasgow-shot hallucinogenic comic thriller Tummy Monster (2 March), and Orkney-born lead of ITV’s recent Tom Jonesadaptation Solly Mcleod,in town for the UK premiere of The Dead Don’t Hurt (3 March), who also has the UK premiere of nail-biting police siege Jericho Ridge (9 March) screening at GFF.
Behind-the-camera talent includes British director Rose Glass at the Opening Gala UK premiere of her Sundance hit Love Lies Bleeding (28 February); veteran filmmaker Murray Grigorintroducing the World premiere of the new restoration of his rarely-seen 1975 documentary of Billy Connolly’s tour of Ireland Big Banana Feet (3 March); BAFTA-winning British-Palestinian director Farah Nabulsiwith the UK premiere of her new feature The Teacher (4 March), about a Palestinian school teacher struggling to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new romantic relationship with a volunteer worker, German actor Aylin Tezel(7500) with the UK premiere of her Isle of Skye-shot directorial debut Falling Into Place (2 March).Festival favourite Ben Wheatleywill also introduce a 15th anniversary screening of his debut feature Down Terrace (1 March) and Glasgow-born Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald will introduce both the Scottish premiere of his new fashion documentary High & Low: John Galliano (5 March) and the UK premiere of Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger (5 March), featuring his own grandfather Emeric Pressburger.
Glasgow Film Festival takes place at Glasgow Film Theatre and venues across the city from 28 February to 10 March, with a programme boasting 11 world and international premieres, 69 UK premieres and 15 Scottish premieres, from 44 countries.
Tickets are on sale now for all screenings, at GFT Box Office or online at glasgowfilm.org