‘Notice Me’ Exec Produced By Lena Dunham Among Projects Set For Glasgow Film Festival’s Industry Lab
Filmmaker Amy Leonard’s comedy project Notice Me, exec-produced by Lena Dunham, is among the titles that have been selected to be included in the industry labs at the 2026 Glasgow Film Festival.
Glasgow runs three flagship talent development labs: Animatic for animated projects, Funny Features for comedy projects, and the New Talent Mentorship Scheme.
Funny Features and Animatic both culminate with a live pitch during the Glasgow Film Festival’s Industry Focus conference, which runs from 2 to 6 March. Animatic participants will also compete for Best Short, Best TV Series, and Best Feature cash prizes, and one filmmaking team taking part in Funny Features will be eligible for the Curzon Creates Award, which comes with a meeting with Kristian Brodie, Head of Development at Curzon, to discuss their project’s next steps.
Across all three projects, the labs will support the development of 15 feature films, five TV series, and five shorts from filmmakers across the UK. The festival said this is their biggest cohort of filmmakers.
Filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Flee), producer Debbie Gray (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande), director Julia Jackman (100 Nights of Hero), and Charlotte Regan (Scrapper) are among the names confirmed as mentors across the festival’s three industry labs.
Notice Me will take part in Funny Features. The project will be directed by Australian filmmaker Amy Leonard, with Lena Dunham executive producing. The pair worked together on Dunham’s Netflix series Too Much. Leonard is credited as Dunham’s assistant on that show.
Scroll down below to read the full lineup of projects.
Glasgow runs from 25 February to 8 March 2026.
Animatic Projects
Features
- Flavio – Lead Applicant: Kristina Tsenova
- The Great Delaney – Lead Applicant: Sharon E Sørensen
- A Boy & His Dog – Lead Applicant: Ryan Brady
- Artist Mother Seer (Documentary) – Lead Applicant: Paul Sng
- Orla & the Star Grid – Lead Applicant: Lynsey Murdoch
Shorts
- Eat with your Eyes – Lead Applicant: Jenny Jokela
- A Hoolie Away – Lead Applicant: Leonor Calaca
- Skule Skerry – Lead Applicant: Paul Daniel Lucas
- The Void Within – Lead Applicant: Canan Isik
- Adam and Exe. – Lead Applicant: Katy Rigby
TV Series
- The Changeling – Lead Applicant: Owen Thomas
- Picklo & Eggbert – Applicant: Rossie Stone
- Cool Beans – Lead Applicant: Lynsey Tomlinson Booth
- Skinners – Lead Applicant: Ashley Dick
- Spider Queen – Lead Applicant: Gordon Howie
Funny Features Projects
Doom Scroll
- Josie Charles
- Nathan Miller
- Rami Sarras Pantoja
Gro(ceries)
- Catherine Joy White
- Sophie King
- Rosanna Eden-Ellis
- Chinenye Clarissa Ezeudu
How to Survive a Complete Obliteration of the Heart
- Sophie Peacock
- Shona Mackenzie
Kidding Not Kidding
- Gina Lyons
- Natalie Malla
- Xara Higgs
Long Shadows
- Helen Price
- Celia Jennison
Lyssa and Maxine
- John Pocock
- Anna Brook-Mitchell
- Angela Nesi
Notice Me
- Jody Wiltshire
- Emily Sky Hickin
- Amy Leonard
Pont Brec
- Kate Heggie
- Briony Redman
- Damian Evans
Silk Road
- Brian McIver
- Rachel Flynn
The Flynn Family Wake
- Jai Vir Rodgers
- John Cooney
New Talent Mentorship Scheme
Mentors
- Charlotte Regan
- Katie Mallinder
- Thea Gajic
- Julia Jackman
- Eros V
- Sam Lavender
- Brian Welsh
- Cartoon Saloon
Mentees
- Louis Utieyin
- Diego Migliorini
- Jake Shelvey
- Gordon Howie
- Kal Sabir
- Megan McRitchie
- Sumairaa Kazi
- Eubha Akilade
