'Govanhill: A Community Film Portrait' is now available on YouTube
Filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra premiered his short film 'Govanhill: A Community Film Portrait' at the GSFF last year. Now, a year later, the full film has been released on YouTube, allowing free, open access to his work.
Snippet from Filepe Bustos Sierra’s short film ‘Govanhill: A Community Portrait’
By Devon McCole
Felipe Bustos Sierra, BAFTA-winner of the masterpiece Nae Pasaran, shared his short film, Govanhill: A Community Film Portrait, at last years Glasgow Short Film Festival (GSFF).
Felipe premiered the short film at a ticketed event as part of the festival, but now, a year later, the film has been uploaded to his YouTube for anyone to watch for free. With a time-stamp of under 40 minutes, the film is short but certainly very sweet, capturing the ‘palpable sense of community spirit and activism’ in Govanhill.
You can watch it here:
Described as: ‘exploring the secret recipes and whispered art of a neighbourhood conceived to be just a passing place. It may have been indelibly inked on our skin before we were born. For now, we all live and work here at the same time. Sometimes our quirks, migrations and unrelenting activism unite but mostly we’re minding our roots, carving places till they’re safe, stretching and stitching and bitching, poets in our own tongues, remembering our keys, remembering how we got here, remembering what we can be.’ the film is hyper-local and has lots to offer.
Last year Samar Jamal attended the premiere and sat down with Felipe for a Q&A on his latest film to find out more about it, which you can read here: Filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra Premieres 'Govanhill: A Community Film Portrait' at GSFF 2024