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SCREEN MACHINE: Monthly Newsletter 31/08/23 The latest from Screen Machine.

*We need your help*
*Write to your MSP, MP or Councillor so we can build a new Screen Machine*

Customers in August 2017 before a screening of /Dunkirk/ in Tiree/. 
/Photo credit: Neil Macdonald

Screen Machine needs your support more than ever.

This September, the Screen Machine service will mark its 25th 
anniversary. Whilst this is a cause for celebration, there is reason for 
concern.

After 17 years of near continual service, we retired the cinema that 
many of you will know and love as it is no longer fit to manage a full 
tour. Its unreliability led to a sharp increase of cancelled screenings 
and poor service to many of our communities. At short notice, Screen 
Scotland stepped in with the funds to allow us to lease the cinema we 
are currently using: Cinemobile. But this lease lasts only until April 
2024. Beyond that, without intervention, the Screen Machine service will 
be wound down.

We urgently require significant investment to enable us to commission 
the construction of a brand new greener Screen Machine.

A new Screen Machine will cost approx *£1.4 million* and need between 
one year and eighteen months to build. We need the Scottish Government 
to provide *50% of the cost*. That will enable us to pay a deposit and 
begin the construction process. We will then embark on a massive 
fundraising effort to bring in the balance.

Please help us to ensure we can continue to bring your cinema to your 
community for many more years.

Ways to help:

 1. Write to your MSP, MP, or councillor, and to the First Minister,
    Cabinet Secretaries and Council Leader. For guidance on how to do
    this, click here
    <https://screenmachine.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=481366d61828cfc0003c856c2&id=de6efdd766&e=5e77b5da1b>.
 2. Come along – buy a ticket, bring a friend, try more than one film.
    Whilst we sometimes sell out, there is usually spare capacity. At
    £7.50 adult/£5.50 concessions, we believe we give very good value
    for money, and we’ll always be very happy to see you.
 3. Add a donation to your ticket price – when you buy an Adult or a 60
    and Over ticket, there is now the option to add an additional £1
    donation. We will use this extra income solely to keep the Screen
    Machine service on the road and to plan for the future.

At the moment, our primary objective is securing 50% of the cost from 
the Scottish Government, so the best thing you can do is contact your 
MSP or councillor. Donations will be better served once this is in place 
and we have started our fundraising campaign.

We understand this may come as a shock to some of you, but we believe 
that with the voices of our communities behind us, we will be able to 
sway the Scottish Government and progress with construction.

Thank you for all your support so far, and please click the link above 
to find out who you should address your letter to.

The Screen Machine Team

*Add a donation to your ticket*
*Adult and 60 and over tickets can include a £1 donation*

We have also added the option for you to add a £1 donation to your adult 
or 60 and over tickets when booking online. These donations will go to 
the rising ongoing costs of operating Screen Machine, such as fuel, 
ferry journeys, and accommodation for our operators. Every extra £1 will 
help us to keep bringing the Screen Machine service to you, your family 
and friends, and to your community.

Thank you to everyone who has added a donation to their tickets so far. 
Don't worry if you haven't or are unable to spare it - we're still happy 
to welcome you along to Screen Machine!

*Screen Machine's 25th Anniversary*
*It's been quite a journey since 1998*

This September marks 25 years since our senior operator Iain MacColl 
screened The Little Mermaid for Screen Machine's first audience in 
Invergordon. We have come a long way since then, racking up thousands of 
miles to bring the magic of cinema to countless communities across 
Scotland, going through two cinemas.

As mentioned above, this moment of celebration is also a time of great 
uncertainty. Please write to your representatives so we can secure the 
funds to start the build on a new Screen Machine. That way we can ensure 
cinema will continue to roll into your communities for many more years.

*Locations on sale*
*And there will be more soon*

Screen Machine in Durness in December 2020. Photo credit: Iain MacColl

Despite all the news above, we are still touring right now with 
Cinemobile, and would to see you come along in any of the locations 
below that are now sale:

Fort Augustus - 4 to 6 September
Ullapool - 7 to 9 September
Lochinver - 11 & 12 September
Kinlochbervie - 13 & 14 September
Durness - 15 & 16 September
Bettyhill - 18 & 19 September
Lairg - 20 & 21 September

We're currently finalising our schedule until the end of year and will 
publish it on our website 
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once it's confirmed. We'll look to get tickets on sale with plenty of 
notice.

For many of these visits we'll continue to show */Barbie/*, 
/*Oppenheimer*/, and/*Indiana Jones*/, and then add new films to 
programme once they've completed a full circuit.

*Mulan*
2020 (12A), 104 mins
Available for 18 days on BBC iPlayer 
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Live action remake of Disney's 1998 animated adaptation of the Chinese 
legend /Hua Mulan/. When her father is conscripted into the emperor's 
army to repel an invasion from a Rouran army, Mulan masquerades as a boy 
to take his place.

*This is Spinal Tap*
1984 (15), 79 mins
Available for 28 days on BBC iPlayer 
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This mockumentary follows the history and antics of English metal band 
Spinal Tap upon the release of their latest album. Egos clash as they 
deal with enforced artwork changes, miniature stage props, and the 
continuously unexplained spontaneous combustion of their drummers.

*Grease*
1978 (PG), 106 mins
Available for 26 days on Channel 4 
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Probably one of the few films that needs no introduction. Sing along to 
its legendary soundtrack with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John as 
they navigate high school life, falling in love, and flying cars in the 
1950s.

*Airplane!*
1980 (12A), 83 mins
Available for 17 days on Channel 4 
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This classic comedy is crammed full of almost every kind of joke, from 
surreal to slapstick. An ex-fighter pilot suffering from a fear of 
flying is forced to take control of a commercial flight after both its 
pilots get food poisoning


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*Thank you for reading, and we'll catch up
with you at the end of September!*


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