It's SQIFF's birthday! Have you got a birthday tenner for us? 🎂🎁🎈 Wondering why you should donate? Your donations support Scotland's only dedicated LGBTQIA+ film festival, a unique and essential platform for queer cinema in the country. Donate via the link: www.sqiff.org/donate/

It’s SQIFF’s 10th birthday! Have you got a birthday tenner for us? 🎂 Wondering why? Your donations support our Pay-What-You-Can ticketing, allowing access for people who may struggle afford it otherwise. Donate here: www.sqiff.org/donate/ #SQIFFBirthdayTenner #GlasgowEvents #ScottishFilm

The 10th SQIFF will be on from the 27th of October - 1st of November 2025! We will feature the best of global LGBTQ+ film across Glasgow venues. Browse our full programme now on our website: www.sqiff.org/wp-content/u... Artwork: Anastacia MacDonald (@anastacia_illustrations)

All our venues are wheelchair accessible 🌈 If you need access seating, such as wheelchair spaces, bean bags, front row, aisle or back seats, or anything else, email [email protected]. Please include your name, ticket info, and access request. Artwork by Anastacia MacDonald

Volunteer for SQIFF 2025! 🌈✨ Help us make this year’s festival better than ever! 📅 Deadline for applications: 11:59pm Monday 1st September Message us with any questions. The link is in our bio if you would like to apply! #SQIFF2025 #EventsInScotland #VolunteeringScotland

Want to get more involved with our work? We’d love to have you join us! 🤝 We’re looking for passionate volunteers to help us make SQIFF 2025 better than ever! Click the link for more information on how to apply: linktr.ee/SQIFF?lt_utm... #SQIFF2025 #volunteering #queerfilm #scottishfilm

𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲! 🎬🗓 SQIFF will be back this autumn for our 10 year anniversary! Join us from the 27th of October to the 1st of November 2025 for incredible celebration of queer cinema. We can’t wait to welcome you. What are you excited to see this year? #SQIFF2025 #QueerCinema #GlasgowEvents

🏳️‍⚧️ SQIFF has a £1500 commission for a queer artist based in Scotland to create the artwork for this years’ festival 🌈 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Please find more information and how to pitch your ideas here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Have any short film ideas that need a bit of direction and support? Want to learn more about the opportunities for short film makers in Scotland? 📅 Tuesday 22nd July ⏲️ 6:30pm-8:30pm 📌 GMAC Film @gmacfilm 🎟️ Get your free tickets here: www.sqiff.org/events/

Join Excuse My Beauty and SQIFF for a very special Pride screening at The Social Hub 🩷🤍🩵 We will be screening two incredible films by trans directors: ​ ​​​​🏳️‍⚧️ Tops by Ames Pennington and Joss Bitelli 🏳️‍⚧️ ​​Hot Young Geek Seeks Blood Sucking Freak by Heath Virgoe

🌈🎬 The SQIFF Directory is LIVE! Queer film talent across Scotland — from a director in Dundee to an editor in Edinburgh to a runner in the Highlands. No gatekeepers. No fees. Just pure queer brilliance. 📍Explore + join via link in bio!

🎥 SQIFF and Scottish Refugee Council are partnering to present two screenings (in Glasgow and in Inverness) as part of the Building Solidarity & Kinship programme curated by Esraa Husain at their 2025 Refugee Festival Scotland. 🫶 Book free tickets for the events here: www.sqiff.org/events/

We're so proud of the work we're doing to support Scottish queer people working in the film industries! If you like the work we do, please consider supporting us via Patreon or a one-off donation via PayPal. Links to donate can be found on our website Donation page here: www.sqiff.org/donate/

🎥 SQIFF and @portypride.bsky.social are teaming up once again to present a bold and eclectic mix of queer short films from around the world, screening at the beautiful Portobello Town Hall ✨ Location and Time 📍Portobello Town Hall 📍7-10pm 📍More info and tickets here: www.sqiff.org/event/sqiff-...

A big thank you to everyone involved in our Trans and Non Binary Filmmaking workshops with @scottishtrans.bsky.social - that’s a wrap on all our filmmaking workshops for now! Catch the completed films at this year’s SQIFF. 🍿💪🏽💫 Thanks to @screenscots.bsky.social for supporting this workshop series.

𝙁𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙨 is a programme that brings together the work of queer East and Southeast Asian artists based in Scotland, showcasing a bold exploration of identity, transformation, and community.These films offer a range of experiences where body and identity intersect with culture and memory

Our forth and final Trans and Non-binary filmmaking workshop is coming up this Sunday! Join ‘Where a film lives’ (Screening//Distribution)❤️‍🔥 to find out all about where a film lives in the world and how to get your work out there. Book yourself in! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/filmmaking... 📸: Ocean Teal

🎬 DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR SQIFF 2025 SHORT FILM SUBMISSIONS 💞✨ This year’s festival will happen from 28 October-1st November 💖 📍Link to FilmFreeWay: filmfreeway.com/SQIFF 📷 Photo by Tiu Makkonen

Our filmmakers are busy making short films which will premiere at SQIFF 2025… watch this space! 👀

Learn all about editing at our next Filmmaking Workshop for Trans and Non Binary people this Sunday, in partnership with @scottishtrans.bsky.social. We'll be doing some hands-on film editing with a range of techniques. Get yourself on the waiting list here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/filmmaking...

🌈✨ Calling all queer creatives in the Scottish film industry! 🌈✨ The SQIFF Directory is here to help you connect! Don’t miss out—applications are open now and close on Sunday, 18th May 2025. Help make Scotland’s film scene more inclusive 🎥💖 👉 Link in bio to apply! ✨Supported by Glasgow Life✨

This Sunday we're hosting our second Trans and Non Binary Filmmaking workshop in partnership with @scottishtrans.bsky.social. 🌞 Come along to chat through visual film languages and connect with people who want to make film together! Have a look: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/filmmaking...

Next up is 4x filmmaking workshops for Trans and Non Binary people hosted by SQIFF and @scottishtrans.bsky.social at Transmission, Facilitated by Erica Monde. There's one spot left to snap up if you're quick! Hatch your film at the first session this Sunday: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/filmmaking...

✨Thank you so much to all the amazing filmmakers who came along to our QTIPOC+ Filmmaking workshops, it was great to learn alongside you and make some films together! We’ll be screening some of the films created in these workshops at this year’s SQIFF 🎬🍿

Now up on our Patreon is an interview with filmmaker, academic and educator Erica Monde, chatting about embodied filmmaking, shooting in unusual places, and facilitating SQIFF’s upcoming trans and non binary filmmaking workshops. Have a watch from £5/month! 🦋 ➡️ www.patreon.com/posts/embodi...

Meet the winners of SQIFF's Queer Filmmakers Group Pitch Fund! 🎞️ Zy and AJ are making their film Well… Actually to be premiered at SQIFF 2025. Well… Actually is a short comedy film about an agoraphobic doomsday prepper who accidentally becomes the world’s last hope for survival… or so they think!

Our final QTIPOC+ Filmmaking session is 'Collaging our Films’ 🎞️ on 30th March! You'll get a demonstration of how to use free editing software and learn how to collage together film and sound clips to make your own narrative film. Book your free spot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/filmmaking...

Make no mistake that attacks on trans people are attacks on gender, bodily autonomy and the right to identity. We must understand these connections and work together in allyship.

Our new interview with longtime SQIFF team member Nat Lall, DJ, filmmaker, sound artist, and also the facilitator of our current QTIPOC+ filmmaking workshops is up on our Patreon! Hear them chat about all the fun kit at the workshops, finding community in DJing, and more! www.patreon.com/SQIFF

🚨🔊Change of date!🔊🚨Our next QTIPOC Filmmaking session: Fantasy Field Recording💥will now happen on Saturday 15th March. We'll be getting creative with immersive, otherworldly soundscapes, learning foley, spatial audio and IRL field recording. Grab your ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/filmmaking...

And last up for #FundingSunday this week, we've got Oliver's top surgery fundraiser. Donate if you can, share if you can't. www.gofundme.com/f/cerjf-oliv... #Solidarity #TransFundraiser #TransCrowdfund #Transition #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ

We are pleased to announce that we will have a performance space at our Festival Market again following the success in 2023. If you are interested in putting forward an act, please complete the form below. forms.office.com/e/AfGYHKv47V

Our next workshop for QTIPOC+ filmmakers is on 9th March, 'Acting is just me hanging out with my friends'! Come along to learn how to turn hang outs with your pals into quality DIY films. Places are booking up so grab your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/filmmaking...?

First up in our Filmmaking workshops for QTIPOC+ is First up is D.I.Why? 🔨 on 2nd March. Nat Lall will takes us through why DIY (Do It Yourself) filmmaking is such a fun and accessible way to make film. Book your free place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/filmmaking...

🎬​​ SHORT FILM SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR SQIFF 2025 💞✨ This year’s festival will happen from 28 October-1st November 💖 Please find out about submitting your film to our consideration via our FilmFreeway: filmfreeway.com/SQIFF Deadline: 20th April 2024 🎞️ 📷 Photo by Tiu Makkonen

Inclusion Scotland are working to create a toolkit that will improve health and social care services for disabled LGBTQIA+ people! If you're LGBTQIA+ and disabled, please share your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/2LvF75ajLe The survey is open until the 3rd March 🏳️‍🌈

We're delighted to present our Network's first event! Dr. Kirsty Clark will share research from both the United States and Scotland examining how societal narratives and social networks can shape #suicide risk among #LGBTQ+ youth. events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

This Valentine's Day we have digital billboards across the city centres of Glasgow & Aberdeen, and a digital ad van in Edinburgh, to raise awareness of harmful conversion practices. If you spot our ad, tag us & use #EndConversionPracticesScotland. equality-network.org/EndConversionPracticesScotland

Also coming up - filmmaking workshops for trans and/or non binary people in partnership with @scottishtrans.bsky.social 🍿 across Sundays in April! Book yourself in to learn accessible ways into filmmaking - for free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/filmmaking... Supported by @screenscots.bsky.social 🙌

Hello Bluesky! 🌈 Check out our upcoming filmmaking workshops with Exhale Scotland, at Transmission, Glasgow across Sundays in March. 4 x workshops for QTIPOC+ people to learn and experience accessible ways to make a film. Book your free place now!👇🏾 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/filmmaking...