First target reached! Stretch target: £900
Stretch Goal 1 at £600 for the soundtrack is covered. The next £300 takes the campai...
The Shooter - A Micro Short from Glasgow Film Crew
Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Aim
We are raising funds to make The Shooter and prepare it for a first festival run.
The Shooter is a five-minute comedy from Glasgow Film Crew.
A car pulls into a car park with a minute to spare. Spanner is behind the wheel: aviators, toothpick, driving gloves. He drives. That's it. Chancer, in the passenger seat, works the crowd, and he's already in the makeup. Chib is late, and when he gets in the back with the bag, something's obviously wrong. He's the shooter, and he's just told them he's not that guy any more. Chancer needs someone else to take the bag. They're on in five minutes.
Story and screenplay by Andrew Hazell. Directed by Scott McCartney. Produced by Geoff Moore.
Glasgow Film Crew's last crowdfunded short, Baxter Hammond P.I., raised nearly £1,200 from 28 backers and went on to play FrightFest in London and the Scottish Short Film Festival. At Dragonfly IFF it won Best Editing and was runner-up for Best Director and Best Short Comedy.
You paid for the shoot. The £500 target covered the day, and £600 covered the soundtrack. We shot it on Sunday 4 October in a car park in Scotstoun: ten people, one car, none of them paid. It's in the edit now.
Now we need the money to finish it.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES.
£500, the target: the shoot day. Catering, travel, costumes, makeup, props, the banner and balloons, and the platform's fees. Covered.
£600, Stretch Goal 1: the music licence. Covered.
£900, Stretch Goal 2: finishing it. The 5.1 sound mix and DCP, a cast and crew screening in Glasgow, and the first run of festival entries. This is where we are.
Past £900, every pound is split evenly between the twelve people who made the film, up to £100 each. Anything beyond that goes towards the next Glasgow Film Crew short.
No grant, no match funding. Everything on this page came from the people who backed it.
£10 puts your name in the credits.
THE CREW.
Every person below has made films with GFC before, most of them with each other, several of them on Baxter Hammond P.I. last year. Nobody on 4 October was finding out what a set is. They've had the late nights and the weekends and the few illusions knocked out of them, and they came back.
Scott McCartney, Director.
Scott edited television before GFC gave him somewhere to direct, including BBC Scotland's River City and CBBC's Eve, and he's cut commercials for Irn-Bru and the Scottish Government. When the Crew came back after lockdown he took it on and has run it since. Nine shorts as director in four years. On Baxter Hammond P.I. he wrote it, directed it, produced it, graded it and did the effects, which is less a boast than an admission of how these films get finished. Baxter played FrightFest and the Scottish Short Film Festival and won Best Editing at Dragonfly IFF. He's putting every step of The Shooter up on this page because that's what GFC is for: the next person shouldn't have to learn it the hard way.
Andrew Hazell, Writer.
Andrew has been writing for GFC since 2013, from Nigel, Son of the Devil and The Ballad of Dusty Beaumont through to All-Infernal, Escape Room and Triptych in the last three years. He's also recorded sound, shot, built props and co-directed on other people's films, and it shows: his scripts are written by someone who's stood on the set they're asking for. The Shooter is three men, one car and one car park, shot in a day. It was built to be made. It's his story and his script.
Geoff Moore, Producer.
In two years, Geoff has been first AD, second AD, production manager, script supervisor, lighting technician, unit driver and, when a part needed a body, an actor, across A Claus for Concern, Baxter Hammond P.I., Extra Time, Family Time and The Journeyman. He produced Extra Time. On The Shooter, he produced, which on a GFC film means being the person who says no so the director doesn't have to. He also supplied the car. He's done every one of those jobs from the other side, and that's the qualification.
Ben Somerville, Cinematographer.
Ben spent a decade as a gaffer, mostly on Scottish shorts, before he picked up the camera, so his images look lit rather than found. He's shot seven films for GFC since 2022, including Baxter Hammond P.I., The Forth Man and Triptych, and produced three of those as well, because on a GFC set you do what's needed. On The Shooter, he had a parked car, an open car park and an overcast sky.
Xavier Garcia, Assistant Camera.
Xavi is Catalan-born and Glasgow-based, a cinematographer who taught himself on a smartphone and kept going. He shot GFC's Triptych and has nine films as DOP, and his own micro-shorts Halo and Zoi have both won awards. On The Shooter, he was Ben's assistant camera.
Kirstin Carol McLellan, Location Sound and Sound Design.
Kirstin runs War Troll Audio from a soundproof room at home and has nineteen sound credits since 2022, from foley and recording to full design, including sound editor on the feature Frames (2025). Most of GFC's recent films have been through her: Escape Room, Triptych, A Claus for Concern and Baxter Hammond P.I. On The Shooter, she recorded the day and will deliver the 5.1 mix.
Glenn Curtis, Sound Assistant.
Glenn is Kirstin's partner and regularly assists on her sound work, so they came as a unit. On the day, he rigged the car and kept the mics running while she recorded. He also gave us our base: the optician's practice he manages on Dumbarton Road, which is where the cast were made up and where lunch happened.
Jackie "Jax" Forrester, Makeup.
Jax has won Best Makeup at the 48 Hour Film Project three times, once with GFC on All-Infernal, and has done makeup on The Goolies and The Good Kind of Bad. On The Shooter she had two clowns to make, an auguste for Chancer and a sad tramp for Chib, and both lasted the day without a touch-up break in the schedule.
Craig Andrew Robertson, Editor.
Craig has fifteen years and nearly thirty edits behind him, a feature he wrote and directed, The Thistle in the Kiss, and a trainee stint on The Acolyte for Disney+ to see how the big rooms do it. He's cut GFC's films since 2022: The Last String, A Piece of Your Mind, Triptych, A Claus for Concern, Extra Time and Baxter Hammond P.I., and his own short Last House on CCTV took the audience award at the Scottish Short Film Festival in 2021. In a five-minute film, the edit is the timing, and the timing is the joke. He's the one who'll find it.
THE CAST.
Adam James Johnston, Chancer.
Adam grew up in Orkney and is based in Glasgow. He graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2025; he also trained with the National Youth Theatre and Kristin Linklater, and he led Being Sophie Scholl at the Edinburgh Fringe, which got a four-star review. On screen, he's in V/H/S/Halloween for Shudder and Film4's Midwinter Break; he wrote and directed his own short, Babel. He plays Chancer, the auguste clown.
Josh John Kilpatrick, Spanner.
Josh is 21, from North Ayrshire, and graduated from Queen Margaret University last year with a BA in Acting and Performance. He's been taking on short films since. He plays Spanner, the driver, in aviators and a pair of cream crochet driving gloves.
Sean Petit, Chib.
Sean is an Edinburgh-based actor. In 2026 alone he's done half a dozen shorts, two 48 Hour Film Projects and four big-budget series. He wrote in before we'd drawn up a shortlist, and told us he was closest in age to one part and closest in type to another. He plays Chib, the sad clown in the back seat.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 30th October 2026 at 8:00pm