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Edinburgh Filmhouse to reopen
The Scotsman
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2 years ago
Edinburgh Filmhouse to reopen
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I'm Jenny Atkinson, I'm one of the team that are attempting to open the doors of
00:06
Filmhouse again and we've just had some extremely good news about funding which
00:10
means that we will be able to open the doors again.
00:13
Now tell us a little bit about the funding and what this means in terms of
00:17
the campaign to get the Filmhouse back up and running again.
00:20
We've just heard that we are getting all the money we asked for from the
00:26
Community Ownership Fund which is a levelling up from the levelling up pot
00:31
government, UK government, and it means that we can refurbish the Filmhouse the
00:37
way that we dreamt of doing so so that it becomes a really great modern
00:42
cinema-going experience. No nachos in the cinema I'm afraid but we don't do that
00:47
but nice seats you know just generally much much more comfortable than it has
00:52
been for many years. At the moment we're in cinema 2 in the Filmhouse, it's cold
00:57
and these are small seats, can't cross your legs and there if we need to do a
01:05
close-up of actually the upholstery on the seats is coming away and these have
01:10
been here for 35 years even if they were recovered some some years ago but
01:16
they're really pretty awful.
01:18
When you get reopen again do you think people will
01:21
notice a big difference in the Filmhouse?
01:23
I think they will because it will be a much more modern kind of feel really and
01:29
at the moment you kind of make excuses for the way it is and this is the point
01:36
is that it closing in October 22 was tragic and awful but it's now turned
01:42
into a massive opportunity and we could not be happier. On behalf of everybody
01:48
who loves the place and who misses it and on behalf of all the new audiences
01:52
that we hope will come.
01:54
How would you describe the groundswell of support that's
01:56
been there from day one really when the cinema closed?
01:59
Well it's been amazing and I think as a lot of people know we had a very initial crowdfunder to try and buy
02:07
the building because when the centre for the moving image went into
02:11
administration the building had to be put up for sale and the administrators
02:16
don't wait around. There was a five-week window so by the time anybody actually
02:21
got it together I think we had three weeks to try and raise you know
02:25
two million quid which was really ambitious but what that process did was
02:30
to demonstrate how much support there was for film and how much people were
02:35
desperate at it closing.
02:37
Give us an idea of if everything goes according to plan
02:41
when's the earliest people could be back watching films again?
02:44
I think the earliest really is the autumn and I mean that is the earliest
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because we've got plans you know and we've got costings and everything but we
02:55
have to sign the lease and then we can get the refurbishment started but
03:01
you know with every kind of it's not building work exactly but with that kind
03:05
of work you know you just don't know you can't possibly see it's definitely going
03:10
to be done in a certain period of time. We think five months from the start but
03:16
it may be six.
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And you're hoping to get underway what's the earliest you think
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hopefully will you be able to get cracking?
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Well in May would be the earliest yeah.
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So you're not gonna be part of this year's film festival but hopefully very
03:31
much next year you hope to be part of that mix?
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Well we're obviously having
03:35
conversations with the film festival I mean you know there's a
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relationship there that goes back you know 70 years and so we're hoping that
03:47
that will come become more solid for 2025 but you know it's early days yet
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they're very concentrated in getting a festival done this year.
03:57
In terms of the campaign that's obviously been going for such a long time now getting to this
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point seems like the you know the real kind of key moment.
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This is it I mean we really did dream of this because while we were
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that we were quite successful in fundraising and we were continuing to
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fundraise and can I thank every single person that has given us a donation of
04:20
any sort because that's been really really important.
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This enables us to do what we aspired to do which was the whole you know what we say the whole Boonah.
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We're going to have a fourth screen fourth little cinema which will make a big difference to scheduling.
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That means that's the complicated bit behind the scenes and also it will be available for
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as an education space and breakout space things like that so it's really great.
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