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Festival In Focus: Glasgow Film Festival Director Allison Gardner Talks “Programming Without Prejudice”, Building A Festival From The Ground Up & What Audiences Should Expect From Her Final Edition
Gardner has worked at Glasgow Film, the charity that runs the festival and the Glasgow Film Theatre for more than 30 years.
It will be a bittersweet moment for Glasgow Film Festival director Allison Gardner when the curtain rises at the event’s opening night on Wednesday with the world premiere of John Maclean’s Tornado starring Tim Roth and Jack Lowden. Glasgow Film secured its multi-year funding award from Creative Scotland [£3.6M across the next three years], the festival is doing very well in terms of ticket sales and the growth of the Industry Focus section, so I really do feel that I’m leaving it in a very good place.” Across the last two decades, GFF has seen its star power steadily grow and has welcomed the likes of Richard Gere, Jesse Buckley, Karen Gillan, Alan Rickman, James Earl Jones, Simon Pegg, Ben Wheatley, Haifaa al-Mansour and Viggo Mortensen through its doors.
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