Glasgow Film festival to sell fims via Facebook

The Glasgow Film Festival will be able to sell films on facebook, through its partnership with sharable video-on-demand player inventors Distrify.

The festival is to create an online collection of short films from this year’s Glasgow Short Film Festival Scottish Competition programme, with one film also featured daily and available to buy, on the festival’s facebook pages.

The selection includes Scottish Audience Award-winning Philippa and Nancy plus several titles straight after their World or Scottish Premieres during the festival.

They are all available for 99p or less and some are available worldwide. Others have had to limit their availability to preserve premiere status in other territories.

Matt Lloyd, director of Glasgow Short Film Festival said, “GSFF is thrilled to be joining forces with Distrify to make Scottish films available to a wider audience. As a cutting-edge digital distribution resource for independent filmmakers, based right here in Glasgow, Distrify is a natural ally of GSFF. This initiative marks the start of an exciting partnership dedicated to supporting new Scottish and international filmmakers.”

Peter Gerard, CEO and founder of Distrify added, “Many people have doubted whether short films can make money, especially online. Thanks to Distrify’s unique tools, which empower new filmmakers to engage audiences through social media, we’ve seen great short films earning thousands of pounds a week. Glasgow Short Film Festival has a reputation for curatorial excellence, so we look forward to how audiences respond to the GSFF’s exclusive collection of shorts.”

The Glasgow Short Film Festival ran from February 9-12 and screened over 150 films screen in fifty-three events The 2012 edition of the Glasgow Film Festival runs Feb 16-26 in sixteen venues across the city.