Glasgow West End Free Film Fest

We are a community group that organises free neighbourhood film festivals, to encourage community involvement through film.
The first Free Film Festival took place in 2010 in Peckham and Nunhead, South East London, and the idea has spread from there.

Our festivals, which are completely run by volunteers, bring people together to enjoy films they might not have seen in places they may not have been. Each festival is run by its own group of volunteers, but with support from other festivals, including shared projection equipment.

We’ve planned and organised the first Glasgow West End Free Film Festival  this March. We have seven free film screenings over seven different venues across the West End and beyond! The films range from

independent Scottish thrillers (Ratcatcher) to French animations (Belleville Rendezvous) to classic blockbusters (Alien), and will be screened in a variety of local independent venues, such as Inn Deep, The Africa Arts Centre and Community Central Halls.

Our aims:
To create community-run film festivals in small geographical areas or neighbourhoods.
To bring people together from across the community to enjoy a great movie and celebrate their local area too.
To promote skills development by supporting workshops and filmmaking events, and offer volunteering opportunities so people can gain new skills and interests.

We are committed to screening films at no expense to their audiences to provide a week of fun, community-oriented cinema. What's more, we plan for this to be a yearly event, hopefully expanding every year.

The cost of this year has almost all been covered, but as this is our first year, securing funding from larger organisations has proven difficult, and so we'll mostly be relying on charity. A donation this year will likely mean we will be able to operate entirely on larger funding schemes in the future.

Any donation is an investment in the festival for the years to come!