Hello TF followers - Alison Piper here, I will be blogging for TF all week from the Glasgow Short Film Festival where my first film ‘Stalactites’ is playing in competition. I’ll be writing short reviews, but mainly writing about my experience of being a first time filmmaker at a festival and how it feels to be part of the festival community and to show your work to the public. (I'm scared!) There’s so much to see. I’m going to prioritise work by Scottish filmmakers so I can b

So… It was an eventful first day at GSFF yesterday and not in the way I expected - I wasn’t at all on my radar that I would end up administering first aid to a chap who fainted after watching Brian M. Ferguson’s grizzly short film ‘Flamingo’ as part of the Skinny Short Film showcase. I think much of the audience thought it was a publicity stunt engineered by Fergusson, and just kind of… stood there. I had to elbow my way from the back row to help the poor man who was alright