2 Bombito produced shorts to screen in competition at Glasgow Short Film Festival

Glasgow based filmmakers get a chance to screen on home turf this February. Clean and Who I Am Now will both screen in the Scottish Competition at the prestigious, BAFTA-qualifying Glasgow Short Film Festival (GSFF).

The Scottish Short Film Award at GSFF, is the largest annual showcase of its kind and honours inspiration and innovation in new Scottish cinema.

Both directors and majority crew of both films live in Glasgow so this is extra special - on top of Glasgow always being such an fun, important and thought provoking short film festival.

CLEAN - 23 March

A short and personal female-centred documentary about addiction and long-term recovery from it.

Director Miranda Stern weaves together observational and lyrical elements to take us into the challenging, deeply personal and relatively unknown world of recovery – along with the processes of care that follow in the years after a period of active addiction.

This is one couple’s journey together as they negotiate the world of recovery and how to plan for a future with so much uncertainty in it.

Fresh from screening in competition at Clermont Ferrand, Miranda can finally watch her film with an audience in the city she calls home.

Directed and Edited by Miranda Stern and developed, supported and executive produced by Scottish Documentary Institute's Bridging the Gap programme and Screen Scotland.

Watch Clean at GSFF

Clean will screen in the Scottish Competition - Scottish Short Film Award 1: (Un)Tethered You can watch the film on 23 March, 21:00, CCA Theatre

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Who I Am Now - 26 March

This live action and animated short features 2 trans refugees sharing their stories about the families we are born into, and the families we make from our friends…

This is a trans led film, made by a trans director, trans cast and a majority queer crew.

The cast features Talisa Garcia, Disney's first openly trans actress (Willow) and BAFTA winner Adam Kashmiry.

This film is meant to highlight how we within the community tell our stories to each other, details can be left unsaid both to avoid triggering trauma and because we often share similar experiences.

Written by Michael Lee Richardson - based on a story by Adam Kashmiry and Zan Scott.

Director & Editor Jack Goessens

Producer: Reece Cargan

DOP: David Lee

Animator: Holly Summerson

Funded by Creative Scotland's Create: Inclusion fund and LEAP Sports Scotland.

Watch Who I Am Now at GSFF

Who I Am Now will screen in the Scottish Short Film Award 4: Navigations You can watch it on 26 March, 15:15, GFT Cinema 2

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Clean to screen in competition at Clermont Ferrand 2023

Miranda Stern's short documentary 'Clean' has been selected to screen in the 35th International Competition of Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival.

The festival received 8500 submissions and only 78 films were chosen to make up the International Competition.

Very happy that Miranda's deeply personal and poetic film has been recognised and will be screening at this prestigious festival in 2023.

Clean:

A short and personal female-centred documentary about addiction and long-term recovery from it. This film weaves together observational and lyrical elements to take us into the challenging, deeply personal and relatively unknown world of recovery – along with the processes of care that follow in the years after a period of active addiction.

This is one couple’s journey together as they negotiate the world of recovery and how to plan for a future with so much uncertainty in it.

A female-centred film about addiction. And long-term recovery from it. Made by an addict. Not by an outsider pointing a camera at addicts struggling with relapses and failure and turning that struggle into entertainment for others.

Not focusing on the dark descent into heroin’s seedy underworld but rather taking us into the challenging, deeply personal, and unknown world of recovery and hope.

Most representations we see on these topics sensationalise a manic, animal-like desperation for the next fix, but rarely frame it in the context of why people are that way...

Miranda Stern

Screening date and tickets

Schedules and tickets will become available mid January.

Miranda Stern

Miranda has worked as a self-shooting PD for the BBC and other broadcasters, as well as making campaign shorts, PSAs and immersive 60” films for Scottish Ensemble, UK Says No More, The Red Cross and others.

Her short drama ‘Revert’ was selected by the BFI Sharp Shorts scheme (2021), she came second place at 16 DAYS 16 FILMS and has had work screened at the Ch4 cinema in association with Film 4.

Further information

• Directed and Edited by Miranda Stern

• Cinematographer: Julyan Sinclair

• Producer: Reece Cargan

• Executive Producer: Sue Bourne

• Composer: Rotem Frimer

• Edit Consultant: Emiliano Battista

• Colourist and Online Editor Karolina Matela

• Sound Designer: Alina Ushakova

• Dubbing Mixer: Joseph Russell

Developed, supported and executive produced by the Scottish Documentary Institute's Bridging the Gap programme and Screen Scotland.

Screening or distribution requests

Please contact Alexandra via festivals@scotdoc.com

'Boifriend' selected for Cinemart 2023

Bombito producer Reece Cargan will be heading to Cinemart in January 2023, with writer director Jack Goessens to present feature project Boifriend.

Boifriend

When a fresh-faced lesbian starts to explore dating and the LGBT community, it quickly becomes clear the story doesn't end once you come out. Plagued by disturbing visions of Dysphoria and Euphoria, she starts to question her identity and place in the community once again.

The Team

Writer Director: Jack Goessens Producer: Reece Cargan of Bombito Productions

Jack and Reece worked together as director and producer on short film Everyman (2021) commissioned through the Scottish Documentary Institute’s Bridging the Gap programme. It recently won an RTS award for best short form.

It won Best Short Film at SQIFF and Euregion film festivals, as well as being shortlisted for a Grierson Award and screening at multiple BAFTA and Oscar qualifying festivals worldwide.

Their second short collaboration 'Who I Am Now', was funded by Creative Scotland & LEAP sports. The script was written by Michael Lee Richardson and starred Adam Kashmiry and Talisa Garcia. This film premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2022.

The Project

Boifriend is at first draft script stage and has been developed with the assistance of Screen Scotland and BFI NETWORK with its delivery partner Short Circuit via their first features scheme.

Jack has received additional support from Cinesud through their Career Lab and from winning the Royal Film Pitch with this project.​

Jack Goessens on Boifriend:

Boifriend is a character-driven, coming of age story exploring the feelings of gender dysphoria and euphoria. Tegan is disconnected from their body and consequently themself and desperately wants to feel a connection with somebody.

It’s a story about the fluidity of gender and sexuality. Although in the logline I have described a lesbian, by the end of the story the main character will realise that this label does not fit and they identify as transmasculine.

This story is not about gender transitioning, but the (potential) lead up to it. The process of working out what your gender identity is. It’s about what it means to be male or female in this world. It’s about body image, sexuality and identity; and about learning to love who you really are.

Cinemart

Cinemart is a co production market and the competitive industry platform which runs in parallel with the 52nd edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

20 titles have been selected for Cinemart 2023 with only 2 from the UK. Presentations to international sales agents, programmers and buyers will take place on February 1st 2023.

Goals at Cinemart

Ideally we would like to find a European co-production partner, international sales agent and distributor interest.

Chat about the project

If you would like to chat about the project or want to come onboard - drop a line to Reece Cargan - reece@bombito.co.uk