Short Circuit: Screening from Scotland

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Short Circuit: Screening from ScotlandFilmakersAlia GhafarSalt & SauceAlia Ghafar is a Writer/Directorfrom Glasgow, whose storiescentre on the lives of youngpeople in contemporary Scotland.She graduated from the Film & TVprogramme at Edinburgh Collegeof Art.Her graduation film, Salt & Sauce,premiered at BFI London FilmFestival 2017. The film went onto screen at over 20 festivalsin the UK and internationally,including Edinburgh InternationalFilm Festival and London ShortFilm Festival. Salt & Sauce wonthe Scottish Short Film Award atGlasgow Short Film Festival 2018and was nominated for Best BritishShort at the London Film Critics’Circle Awards 2019. The film wasalso broadcast on BBC Scotlandand BBC iPlayer, as part of theirseries Next Big Thing.Alia recently completed her shortScuzz, which was developed andcommissioned by BFI and ScreenScotland via Scottish Film TalentNetwork. The film is currentlybeing submitted to festivals.James PriceBoys NightJames Price is a self-taught BAFTAScotland nominated writer/director from Springburn inGlasgow. He taught himself howto write screenplays in his teenageyears by studying the screenplaysof films he admired. His work isusually based on moments orfeelings from his life and the livesof those closest to him. He hasmade short films for BBC iPlayerand had his work televised on BBCScotland. In 2018 he was one of 15people selected out of 4000 UKwide applicants to be a part of theBBC TV Drama Writers’ Programmein London. He has several projectsin various stages of developmentwith Sigma Films, Blazing Griffin,World Productions and BBCScotland.
Harvey GardnerUFOHarvey Gardner is a 23 year oldwriter and director from Glasgow.Having recently graduated fromUWS with an MA in Filmmaking,his graduation short UFO has wonthe Royal Television Society awardfor Best Postgraduate short in theUK, beating two BAFTA nominatedshorts. UFO only recently startedits festival run, premiering at theGlasgow Short Film Festival inAugust as well as having beenshown at the Encounters FilmFestival in September. It has alsobeen selected and nominated forawards at the Edinburgh Short FilmFestival, Cornwall Film Festival,and the VGIK International StudentFilm Festival in Moscow. Hisprevious short, Shed, played at thisyear’s London Short Film Festivaland last year’s Glasgow Short FilmFestival, as well as winning Flickof the Year at GMAC’s Café Flicker,presented by Kate Dickie.Robin HaigSlingshotRobin Haig is a director from theScottish Highlands. Her ScreenAcademy Scotland graduation filmHula, starring Blythe Duff, won theBAFTA Scotland New Talent Awardfor Drama 2016, the Celtic MediaFestival Torc Award for ShortDrama 2017 and the GlasgowShort Film Festival ScottishAudience Award 2017. Robin hasbeen nominated twice previouslyfor BAFTA Scotland New TalentAwards; Best Director and BestNew Work for her directorial debutDear Dad, 2007. Her latest short,Slingshot, stars Sharon Small.In 2018 Robin was selected forthe BBC New Directors’ Schemewhere she trained on continuingdrama River City. Robin has severalfeatures in development and a sixpartTV serial based on her multiaward-winning short Hula. She hasdirected ten episodes of the BBC’sRiver City.Bryan M. FergusonSatanic Panic ’87Bryan M. Ferguson is a selftaughtfilmmaker and musicvideo director from Glasgow. Hiswork is paradoxically beautifuland disturbing - a juxtapositionof the uncanny and the surreal.His films have explored chlorineingesting cults, teenage gelatine,self-amputation, piss vandals,belly-button fetishists and satanicaerobics tapes.
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