No luck needed for their debut, which has its world premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival next weekend. Two screenings have already sold out, with a third added to meet demand.
For executive producer Graham Hughes, who also composed the music for the film, it’s allowed them to learn skills which are not taught at university.
“I’ve been making films for a while and the film industry is a very secretive and idiosyncratic world,” he says.
“People are usually generous with their time, but when you’re just starting out you don’t want to try anyone’s patience. It’s hard to google reliable answers to questions like ‘what percentage should a sales agent take’ so a lot of my lessons were learned by making often embarrassing mistakes.”
“I knew the team could make a good film, but that’s only about half of what you need to know to make a film a success so that’s the learning I wanted to pass on.”
“We’ve been joking for a while that it would be pretty strange if a film called Welcome to G-Town had its première in Spain or Belgium or somewhere like that, so it was always been the goal to have it play in Glasgow,” says Nathan.
“We’ve learned so much from Graham and the rest of the team from making this film,” says Ben.
“Things we didn’t get taught at uni like festival strategies or trying to sell films to a distributor. So we now have a festival strategy that we’re working on and hopefully we can get it to some other countries and other festivals in Europe and then, if people like it, get it out there to as many people as possible.”
Welcome to G-Town is at the Glasgow Film Festival on 28 February at 18:15, on 1 March at 19:30 and om 6 March at 22:45.