Red Carpet talent at Glasgow Film Festival 2020

Award-winning writer and director Alice Winocour will attend the Opening Gala with the UK premiere of her new film Proxima and,11 packed days later, director Coky Giedroyc and writer Caitlin Moran will be in town to celebrate the Closing Gala and the UK premiere of How to Build a Girl. Other chances to see the stars on the red carpet include George Mackay for the UK premiere of The True History of the Kelly Gang; Mark Stanley, Cannes Best Actress Award winner Emily Beecham and the real-life subject of the film David Tait for the World premiere of Sulphur & White; Inbetweeners star Simon Bird for the Scottish premiere of Days of the Bagnold Summer along with lead actress Monica Dolan; Craig Roberts with his sophomore feature as writer-director Eternal Beauty and Celia Imrie, Bill Paterson and Rupert Penry-Jones for the World premiere of Love, Sarah. Haifaa Al-Mansour will be at the festival to talk about her feature The Perfect Candidate and how it feels to be the first female filmmaker in Saudi Arabia; Scottish director Peter Mackie Burns will present Rialto and the young Scottish cast of Our Ladies, Eve Austin, Abigail Lawrie, Tallulah Greive, Sally Messham and Marli Siu, will grace the red carpet alongside director Michael Caton Jones.

Director of You’ve Been Trumped, Anthony Baxter, will be in attendance for the World premiere of his documentary, Flint, uncovering what happened to the town’s water supply and how the situation was able to stay dire for such a long time. Renowned war photographer David Pratt will attend the World premiere of Robbie Fraser’s documentary about his travels to the country that has affected him the most in Pictures From Afghanistan. Rubika Shah and Ed Gibbs will present White Riot, an insightful look at the Rock Against Racism movement. Legendary US photographer Susan Wood will visit Glasgow for the first-ever UK exhibition of her iconic photos of the 1960s and 1970s, capturing John Lennon and Yoko Ono relaxing in the Hamptons and the counter-culture machismo on the set of Easy Rider, and Oscar-winning SFX maestro Chris Cobould OBE will be revealing the secrets of how he createc jaw-dropping special effects for some of the biggest blockbusters, from Skyfall to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, in a fascinating free talk as part of the always-popular Behind The Scenes strand.