Major mountain ranges: Southern Uplands, Central Lowlands, Grampian Mountains, North West Highlands Film City Futures’ mission is to connect people, space and opportunity, enabling access and entry to the screen industries for all. We offer industry focused programmes that are creative, challenging, and most importantly meet the needs of the screen sector in Scotland, from the engagement of new and emerging talent, to personal and business development. Projects to date include Jump Cut, a talent development initiative for 16-25 year olds; Frontrunners, an Executive Coaching programme for business leaders from television, film and related media businesses; and FOCUS, a business development initiative for screen businesses in Scotland. The Scottish National Team are one of the best supported sides in international football, regularly attracting 50,000 fans to support the team at Hampden. However, the Scots have not had much to cheer about in recent times having not qualified for a major finals since 1998. It is a far cry from the glory days of the national side which saw some of the games greatest players wear the Scotland football shirt including Dennis Law, Kenny Dalglish and Gary McAllister. You can get name and number printing on any kit available within our store, in the same style the players wear on the pitch. Choose ANY name - including your own. Following the battle, the British government was determined to bring the Highlanders under their control and harsh laws were passed to eradicate all aspect of Highland culture, including the Gaeliclanguage and traditional clothing. This signalled the end of the Highland clan system.

Made possible through National Lottery funding, BFI NETWORK exists to discover and support talented writers, directors and producers at the start of their careers. We collaborate with film organisations and leading cultural venues across the UK to provide funding for short films, support for the development of first features, as well as a range of professional and creative development programmes. GFT was awarded Accessibility Champion at the SCoD Star Awards 2016 and became the first UK cinema to scoop the Autism Friendly Award 2017. GFF was named Outstanding Festival of the Year at The Herald Scottish Culture Awards 2019. Glasgow Film Theatre is a charity registered in Scotland. No. SC005932. www.glasgowfilm.org About Screen Scotland

As one of the UK’s leading independent cinemas, GFT plays an important part in the cultural life of Glasgow, screening a wide variety of international cinema, classic films and documentaries, alongside locally made work and material aimed at a range of community groups. GFT also has a strong education programme of outreach, courses and school screenings. The Scottish Parliament is made up of 129 elected representatives who debate issues and make laws for Scotland. The head of the Scottish Government is the First Minister. Header Image:Behind the scenes of Razan Madhoon’s Sharp Shorts funded film Go Home – credit to Kevin J. Thomson About Short Circuit

To offer the widest range of UK and international moving image culture through their programmes and festivals - delivered online and in venue Today, Thursday 8th July 2021, Short Circuit has announced the 16 shortlisted films that will be developed through the short film scheme Sharp Shorts. Sharp Shorts launched in May 2020 with a call for short film ideas. 16 projects were selected for an intensive development phase, and 9 were awarded funding through Sharp Shorts at the end of August 2020. You can read about the awarded projects here. Kieran Hannigan, Head of Scripted at Screen Scotland said: “It is fantastic to see the diversity and brilliance of the voices and projects uncovered by this year’s Sharp Shorts shortlist. This is such a vital step on the path for these filmmakers, giving them exposure and experience through the development programme. Short Circuit is core to the mission at Screen Scotland to identify and nurture the best of Scotland’s emerging talent.”Short Circuit is an ambitious new film talent initiative for Scotland delivered by Film City Futures in partnership with Glasgow Film, and funded by Screen Scotland and BFI NETWORK, running initially until the end of March 2022. Up to 9 short films will be produced and 5 feature length scripts will be developed through the programme each year.