EVENTS / FESTIVALS: Glasgow Youth Film Festival

3 - 13 FEBRUARY 2013

Glasgow Youth Film Festival turns five in February and it’s been five years of fantastic film premieres, special guests and events. Last year was pretty amazing but our line-up for GYFF 2013 is even better.

Highlights include a special preview of Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph (with the voice talents of GYFF favourites John C Reilly and Sarah Silverman), the hilarious comedy The We and the I and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as our late night cult classic.

Anime lovers, we haven’t forgotten about you! For your viewing pleasure, we have Studio Ghibli’s masterpiece From Up on Poppy Hill, Mamoru Hosoda’s Wolf Children AND a surprise film with a cosplay red carpet parade! Dress up fabulously and you could win special prizes.

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NEWS / AWARDS: Young Scottish Journalists Scoop Media Award

A team of young journalists from Carrbridge, a small village in the heart of the Highlands of Scotland, were recently presented with the “Best Use of Journalism on the Web” award as part of the Highlands & Islands Media Awards 2011.

Carrbridge News, the youth run, non-profit, community news sharing initiative that was presented with the award, launched in October 2009 to fill the gap for a community news scheme in the village. The young team were already running community oriented, non-profit, film company, Carrbridge Films, and as a result of this they decided against the more traditional print newsletter format and launched www.carrbridgenews.co.uk - a platform for releasing quarterly digital video news programmes.

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