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NEWS!
Well, folks. Although we still need a few more £ to close the entire circle of funding, we are ecstatic to announce that Filmhouse (Edinburgh) Ltd. have been successful in their bid for UK Government Community Ownership Fund investment, and have been awarded £1.5 million.🧵
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Filmhouse can reopen but we need your help! Here's what you can do 🧵
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We have news! 🧵
We’ve just received a huge boost to our fundraising efforts – a £299K grant from
@screenscots
, which takes the amount raised (including the crowdfunder and other donations) to well over £500K!
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The marvellous Jason Isaacs has a message for you this payday! Thanks
@jasonsfolly
, we hope to welcome you back soon!
#filmhouseopenthedoors
DONATE:
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Rod doesn’t like us to include Giftaid when we’re announcing crowdfunder numbers (he prefers to see it as the cherry on top of the cake), but he’s on holiday and this is too wonderful to ignore. Including Giftaid, we’re there.
£250,757.25.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
❤️
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This afternoon at Filmhouse. It’s dark, dusty and silent. We need your help to fill 88 Lothian Road with light and life and cinema once more. Please give what you can, and help spread the word.
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Here’s a wee treat for the long weekend – a first look at the proposed plan to open up the foyer and cafe space. We must stress that this is an initial concept drawing, not the finished design, and that that’s not the new staff uniform! 🤵♂️
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When Filmhouse closed, one of our concerns was what would happen to the irreplaceable projection kit. Here’s David Boyd and our Philips DP70 (around 70 years old and one of only around 1500 ever made) in action.
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If you’re passing Filmhouse tonight you’ll see two of our team have been busy spreading the word in a more traditional way!
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Just look at these beautiful photos of 88 Lothian Road before it became a cinema. 😍 The stained glass windows are still there, behind the screen in cinema one.
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How we wish we could spend today watching Killers of the Flower Moon in cinema one (sitting in new seats with more legroom!), then talking it over with a glass of wine in the bar. Here’s Martin Scorsese in those very places in 1986.
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This Friday, 6 October, it’ll be exactly a year since the doors to Filmhouse closed. We’d like to mark that anniversary in a positive way and we need your help! 🧵
#filmhouseopenthedoors
📷 Danny Carr
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Reposting for the morning crew… 😀
NEWS!
Well, folks. Although we still need a few more £ to close the entire circle of funding, we are ecstatic to announce that Filmhouse (Edinburgh) Ltd. have been successful in their bid for UK Government Community Ownership Fund investment, and have been awarded £1.5 million.🧵
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Something we’ve found incredibly touching has been the number of donations we’ve received from former staff, of both Filmhouse and
@edfilmfest
. We aim to once more be a place where people can build careers, friendships and memories. ❤️
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Thanks so much to all those who have supported us over the past twelve months – wishing you a happy, healthy, cinema-filled new year. Here’s to getting our doors open again in 2024! 🥂
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You guys. Taking Giftaid into account we’ve just passed the £40K mark. 🥹🙏❤️
Still a long way to go though so keep spreading the word!
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The magnificent Kate Dickie bringing a wee tear to our eyes this evening. Thanks
@dickie_kate
, we love you too. ❤️
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DONATE:
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We’ve been rather quiet on here of late, but rest assured there’s lots going on behind the scenes, such as the serious business of choosing fabrics for our new seats! 😍
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It’s a year today since Filmhouse closed. We’re remembering the awful shock of that news, and thinking of the dozens of people who lost their jobs, but also looking to the future, with the help of one Emma Thompson...
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What a day! Thanks so much for all the support, the sharing of posts and of course the donations to our crowdfunder – including Giftaid the total is currently over £28K, well over 10% of our target. 🙏 We’ll let
@JALowden
have the last word.
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#monthehoose
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Today we wish we could meet a pal for lunch in our cafe (filo parcels? chickpea curry?), then watch something wonderful, maybe some Powell and Pressburger, and for it to be dark when we leave the building. Love a winter matinee. ❤️
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Our crowdfunder is nearing £140K and we’re dreaming of tearing down the metal shutters and letting in the light!
For clarity, if we’re unable to raise enough to reopen, all donations will be refunded. A new Filmhouse or your money back!
#winwinsituation
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Huge thanks to writer Paul Laverty, director Ken Loach and the cast of The Old Oak for taking time out of their busy Q&A tour to send us this message. Their film opens across the UK today – see it in an independent cinema if you can!
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We’re now less than £2K away from our initial £250K target (which was raised to £300K when the crowdfunder was extended), and there have been more than 2500 donations. We’re SO grateful for this incredible support. 🙏❤️
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£100K. Astounding. Thank you SO much. If you want to go to bed tonight feeling all warm and fuzzy, have a read through the comments on the crowdfunder. It’s wonderful to know that Filmhouse means so much to so many of you. ❤️🥹🙏
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With all that’s going on in the world, raising money to reopen a cinema may seem trivial. But we have seen how film can open eyes, broaden minds and create connections. We need that now more than ever. Please help if you can:
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We’ve posted an update on the first amazing week of our crowdfunder – click the link and go to ‘Updates’. HUGE thanks to everyone who’s donated so far, but also everyone who’s liked pages, shared posts and helped spread the word. ⭐️
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This sum, along with the required £400K of match funding (which includes the crowdfunder) means that we can go ahead and sign a lease, and start the refurbishment work that will enable us to open the doors to the modern, comfortable venue that Filmhouse audiences deserve.
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Gosh, it’s been quite a day. Countless likes, comments, shares and new followers, and an extraordinary 111 donations to the crowdfunder (including this one, cheers Nick!), totalling £5245. Safe to say, we’re feeling the love. (1/2)
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We've reached our limit of how many folk we're allowed to follow today, but we'll get to the rest of you eventually!
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Our cake was already massive and now it has icing on it too – the crowdfunder passed £260K overnight! You lot are SPECTACULAR. 🙏❤️🥹
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One of the things that sets Filmhouse apart from other cinemas is the amount of screenings we do from film – not just 35mm but also 16mm and 70mm. This beautiful print of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest came all the way from the Academy Film Archive in LA!
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We’re delighted to bring you a message from a total legend today – Mr Brian Cox, filmed while he was taking part in an event at the
@bfi
.
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Please donate, if you can:
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We’ve just passed £70K, and that’s not including Giftaid! Amazing, thanks so much to all who helped in whatever way to get us to this point. Still a way to go though so let’s keep up the good work! 😍🙏💪
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A big thank you to all the supporters who sent us videos to help spread the word and boost morale, these messages have meant such a lot. Let’s get those doors open!
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@JALowden
@annasmithjourno
@gregjmchugh
@David_Mac13
@ruthpaxton
@govindajeggy
@jasonsfolly
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Crowdfunder news!
The crowdfunder has been a huge success and has enabled us to look forward to being able to welcome you back to Filmhouse, sometime in the autumn. 🧵
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DONATE to our Crowdfunder if you're able, and share the link with friends who aren't on social media. The money raised will enable us to refurbish the inside of the building and reopen next year as a more comfortable, welcoming and energy-efficient venue.
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And, brilliantly, it will also allow us to add a small, multi-use, fourth screen which will support the programming of even more films – and be there for education activities.
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Writer/director Charlotte Wells, whose brilliant debut feature Aftersun is up for five
#BAFTAscotawards
, stopped by Filmhouse to lend us her support. Thanks Charlotte, and good luck! Follow
@BAFTAScotland
for all this evening’s award news as it happens!
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THANK YOU from the bottom of our cinematic hearts, on behalf of everyone who wants Filmhouse back.
The doors *will* open again. We’re aiming for the autumn.
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It’s the weekend! And we bring you an important message from Mr Timothy Spall.
Donate here:
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Today we want to know what Filmhouse screening made you laugh the most. We’re going for The Happiest Days of Your Life, starring the peerless Alastair Sim (who lived right next door!), Margaret Rutherford and Joyce Grenfell. Genius.
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Kids, we’re on almost £48K, it would be SPECTACULAR if we could reach £50K by the end of day four. Share like there’s no tomorrow!
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We’re really feeling the love today, and the crowdfunder is about to pass £170K. Thank you all so much. ❤️
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If you’ve ever wondered what Cinema One would look like without seats, feast your eyes! Thanks to former staff member Ciara for sending us this shot, taken in the early 80s when the conversion from the original church building was underway.
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The team were reminiscing about some of their favourite seasons and events at Filmhouse over the years, and our glorious Jim Henson celebration from 2011 was up there. Also a favourite brochure cover! 🐸
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Ruth worked front of house at Filmhouse when she was a student, and is now an award-winning filmmaker. We love to see our alumni flourish in the wider world of film!
Thanks to the incredible work of some VERY impassioned members of the Filmhouse family, our beloved
@FilmhouseEdin
will return, and they need our support...please help 'Open The Doors' xxx
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All together now…
Oh, we're half-way there
Whoa, livin' on a prayer
Take my hand, we'll make it. I swear
Whoa, livin' on a prayer
THANK YOU! 🥳🙏❤️
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Holy moly, it’s definitely payday for a lot of you – fast approaching £90K now! 🥳
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Filmhouse was not saved until this news came in; this is a game changer for the campaign, and every single supporter, whether a donor of money or encouragement, should know that their contribution has made this happen.
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Huge thanks to the City of Edinburgh Council for their contribution, announced today, of £60,000 in support of our campaign to Open the Doors!
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So the crowdfunder will therefore run, as planned, until the end of April. We’re in the home stretch – please do consider chipping in if you’re able!
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Thanks so much to
@markcousinsfilm
for mentioning our campaign in this excellent, thought-provoking article.
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But yes, we *are* still fundraising, to make sure we have enough funds to cover the pre-opening costs (things like computers, staff recruitment, a launch campaign, etc.) as we ramp up the new, wider Filmhouse organisation.
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You STARS. £50,018.50 (including Giftaid). We’re in danger of coming over all Sally Field. 😘
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Kids, we’re on almost £48K, it would be SPECTACULAR if we could reach £50K by the end of day four. Share like there’s no tomorrow!
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It may be wee, but we love our cinema three. Some films (actually, many of the smaller arthouse films we screen) work better in a more intimate space. Great for lovely conversational Q&As too. ❤️
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Our favourite room. Let’s get those doors open and fill it with people again.
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The question on everyone’s lips…
@FilmhouseEdin
@emcandre
So happy 😃 to hear this! Movies back in the Filmhouse. Yay! Now, the key question…will the nachos be back in the bar?!
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Eight years ago today our projectionists were wrestling with the beast that is the 70mm print of The Hateful Eight!
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SIGN UP to the email list on our new website, for news, updates and, eventually, details of the great films and events we'll be hosting once we re-open!
USE OUR HASHTAG
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Annnnd we’ve just passed £150K! 🥳 If we include Giftaid that takes us to almost £180K, which is amazing. Thanks SO much – your support, in whatever form it takes, means so much. 🙏❤️👏
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This looks GLORIOUS! How we wish we were open and able to screen it. 😭
A love letter to cinema's greatest partnership 📽️
Narrated, presented, and executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
Watch the official trailer for MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER.
In Cinemas May 10
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Nicely done, Anonymous!
#spoton
The biggest thanks to everyone who has helped us reach this spectacular milestone! 🙏👏❤️
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Get us, swanning past £60K while no-one was looking! And that’s not even including Giftaid! 🥳🙏🥹
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📣 FILMHOUSE FUTURE 📣
Come along to our public information and discussion event to be held on Wednesday 15 November in The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh. Free but booking advised:
#filmhouseopenthedoors
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Now less than £1K away from £250K! 🤩
#filmhouseopenthedoors
We’re now less than £2K away from our initial £250K target (which was raised to £300K when the crowdfunder was extended), and there have been more than 2500 donations. We’re SO grateful for this incredible support. 🙏❤️
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Morning! We can’t think of anyone we’d rather spend our Sunday morning with than the delicious Alan Cumming. 😍
Please donate if you can, and help
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This weekend we wish we were screening Jonathan Glazer’s extraordinary The Zone of Interest, accompanied by a wee Sexy Beast/Birth/Under the Skin retrospective. Sigh. 🥺
We’re getting closer to being able to open the doors but we still need your help.
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FOLLOW our new social media accounts and share content - we don't have access to the old Filmhouse accounts so are starting from scratch. Filmhouse Edinburgh on FB and
@filmhouse_edinburgh
on Instagram - both have a green Filmhouse F as their profile photo.
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Once again we’re absolutely bowled over by people’s support and generosity. Today, even after we announced that we no longer need to push the crowdfunder so hard, we’ve had 26 donations totalling over £19K! Astonishing. We’re SO grateful. Thank you. 🙏
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£200K! What a start to the weekend! Thank you SO much to everyone who’s donated and helped spread the word – we’re getting there! 🥳
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“It’s so magical – I don’t know why – to go into a theater and have the lights go down. It’s very quiet, and then the curtains start to open. Maybe they’re red. And you go into a world.” David Lynch
Help us open the doors, as well as our iconic curtains!
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One of the many things that makes Filmhouse different from other Edinburgh cinemas is our commitment to education, not only through schools engagement and other formal events but also through additional activity around the films in the public programme.
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Mark your diaries! We're excited to return for our 77th edition this year, running from 15 - 21 August 2024 💫
Read more:
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Today is the 200th day of our crowdfunder, and, incredibly, there hasn’t been a single day without a donation. An amazing achievement, and it’s all thanks to YOU! 30 days left to reach our target, can we keep it up?! 🙏🤞
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Since we’ve gained a bunch of new followers today…
Filmhouse can reopen but we need your help! Here's what you can do 🧵
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We’ve just heard that apparently Charlotte’s mum and dad went to Filmhouse on a date, and saw Wings of Desire. ❤️❤️❤️
Writer/director Charlotte Wells, whose brilliant debut feature Aftersun is up for five
#BAFTAscotawards
, stopped by Filmhouse to lend us her support. Thanks Charlotte, and good luck! Follow
@BAFTAScotland
for all this evening’s award news as it happens!
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There’s nothing more pleasing to our ears than the whirr of a projector, and ours are ready and waiting! Help us reach our crowdfunder target so we can open the doors and get some films on!
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Between us and
@edfilmfest
, thousands of people have worked at 88 Lothian Road over the years, but we hadn’t realised the brilliant actor and writer Greg McHugh was one of them! (Debauched? Us? That must just have been you,
@gregjmchugh
… 😉)
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Just following up yesterday’s good news with even more – the
@Edinburgh_CC
contribution plus a new major donation takes us past the half way point of our overall target! Still a way to go so please do keep spreading the word among friends and family. 🙏
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We’d love to hear how you feel about Filmhouse, especially today. Don’t forget to tag us! 🙏
This Friday, 6 October, it’ll be exactly a year since the doors to Filmhouse closed. We’d like to mark that anniversary in a positive way and we need your help! 🧵
#filmhouseopenthedoors
📷 Danny Carr
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Thanks so much to those who shared their memories of Filmhouse yesterday, we’ve loved reading them so much. ❤️
Please donate if you can and let’s get those doors open and the nachos/chickpea curry/Stilton nuggets back in the cafe!
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It’s Sunday afternoon and we wish our doors were open. We’re inching closer to our goal but we still need your help – please consider donating to our crowdfunder, share our social media posts, and talk to people about Filmhouse. 🙏
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👀
🎥 Exclusive: Bid to bring Edinburgh’s Filmhouse cinema back from the dead gets huge public funding boost as campaigns reaches reaches major milestone. 🎥
@FilmhouseEdin
@screenscots
@TheScotsman
@scotsman_arts
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This event is now fully booked, but there’s a waitlist (on Eventbrite) in case of cancellations. We can’t wait to see you all there!
📣 FILMHOUSE FUTURE 📣
Come along to our public information and discussion event to be held on Wednesday 15 November in The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh. Free but booking advised:
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How we wish we could be taking part in this! 😩 Go and see these wonderful films if you can.
This Autumn, Scottish cinemas are celebrating ground-breaking filmmakers Powell & Pressburger and their connection to Scotland 🏴💫
Don't miss special guests, immersive experiences and amazing locations, thanks to
@BFI
and
#NationalLottery
.
Learn more:
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Caledonian Heritable are continuing their improvements to the building – these beautiful new energy efficient windows are about to be installed. You can help us refurb the inside by donating to our crowdfunder:
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Best wishes to you all for a joyful/restful/tolerable festive season! Thank you so much for all the follows, likes, shares, support and donations over the past few months – we feel like George Bailey. ❤️🙏🎄
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Thank you all SO much; we’re overjoyed that we’re going to be able to open the doors to a new and improved Filmhouse, and we’re delighted that you are too!
And now we’re off for a wee whisky. Cheers! 🥃
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Here’s an unmissable night out for you – Edinburgh trio S!nk will perform their epic live soundtrack to Robert Flaherty’s groundbreaking Nanook of the North (1922) in support of
#filmhouseopenthedoors
– book tickets here:
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We love this crowdfunder comment. Our older customers are so important to us, and they’re often the most adventurous in what they choose to watch! Let’s get those doors open so Mary can enjoy a film on her 97th birthday.
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Our Ginnie had a busy night at the
@BAFTAScotland
awards, recruiting more brilliant Scottish talent to our cause!
Pictured: Ashley Jensen, Alison O'Donnell, Tony Curran and Lauren Lyle, and in the next post actor Morven Christie and writer Andrea Gibb.
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Our Screen One is a beautiful auditorium, but it’s not the most comfortable! Help us replace these tired old seats and increase the legroom by re-stepping the floor. Screen Two too!
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Less than £5K to go before we reach a beautifully round £200K! Keep spreading the word, you’re doing a grand job. ❤️
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