[Stronsaylimpet] Screen Machine visit 25/26 November!

Thu Oct 30 14:08:16 UTC 2025

  **SCREEN MACHINE VISITS STRONSAY 25/26 NOVEMBER!**

Screen Machine Monthly Newsletter 30/10/25

<https://www.screenmachine.co.uk/>

**SM3 Update**
**We've almost reached our fundraising target!**

It’s been a while since we’ve offered an update on Screen Machine 3, but 
we now have multiple pieces of good news to share.

Through the combination of a £150,000 grant from the Anne Duchess of 
Westminster Fund, £10,000 from William Grant Foundation, £5,000 from 
Islay and Dunlossit Trust, an anonymous donation of £10,000, and offers 
of further donations following a recent fundraising event in Edinburgh, 
we are now very close to reaching our target. We have also managed to 
reduce the overall costs of the project to £1.5m thanks to conversations 
with our suppliers and better-than-expected exchange rates.

Toutenkamion are continuing to build the new machine in France, and it 
remains on schedule for delivery in the summer of 2026. We're focusing 
on securing the remaining pledges and grant offers, and creating a 
Resilience Fund to ensure SM3 can be properly maintained as it endures 
Scotland’s single-track roads, ferries, and variable weather.

We’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to Save Our Screen 
Machine. Your belief in our service and support to keep it going is what 
has brought us this far, almost to the finish line!

If you've yet to donate or would like to make a further contribution, 
we’d be very grateful.

Click here to donate 
<https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-our-screen-machine>

**Audience Panel**
**Tell us what you would like to see on Screen Machine**

Would you like to join our Audience Panel?

Have a say on the films that Screen Machine brings to you. Sign up to 
join the Audience Panel and several times per year we will send you a 
survey asking you what you'd like to see. The first in several years is 
planned to go out tomorrow, so click the link below to sign up now if 
you'd like to be included!

Click here to join the Audience Panel 
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**Upcoming visits**
**We have a schedule right through to the end of 2025**

Screen Machine in Westray in 2022. Credit: Iain MacColl

Tickets are currently on sale for seven locations:

Tighnabruaich - 31 October & 1 November
Lochgilphead - 2 to 5 November
Port Ellen - 7 to 9 November
Mallaig - 11 to 13 November
Lochaline - 14 & 15 November
Fort Augustus - 16 to 18 November
Tomintoul - 19 & 20 November

We now have a schedule right through to the end of 2025, and we're 
delighted to say it includes a visit to Orkney. With thanks to Pentland 
Ferries and Orkney Ferries for their help in making our visit possible.

Newtonmore - 21 to 23 November
Stronsay - 25 & 26 November
Westray - 27 to 30 November
Sanday - 1 to 4 December
Shapinsay - 5 & 6 December
Golspie - 9 to 11 December
Lairg - 12 & 13 December
Millport - 20 & 21 December

We aim to get these on sale in the coming weeks. We're also working to 
finalise our schedule for the start of 2026, and we will aim to get 
these on sale by early December. As always, please keep an eye on our 
schedule <https://www.screenmachine.co.uk/schedule/> to see when we 
might next be near you.

Click here to buy tickets <https://www.screenmachine.co.uk/>

**Programme**
**Learn about the latest films**

Priya-Rose Brookwell and Dominic McLaughlin in //Grow//. Copyright: 
Cinema Live

We have added several new films to our programme, a few of which have 
already had their Screen Machine premieres. Click each film's title to 
watch its trailer.

Our current family film is /**Grow**/ <https://youtu.be/Jbfl-n50f8U?>, a 
wonderfully warm British comedy filmed in Scotland. It's about Charlie 
Little, a young girl with a special connection to plants. When she goes 
to live with her no-nonsense aunt Dinah, she decides to enter the local 
pumpkin growing contest. But competition is fierce, and as Charlie and 
Dinah's pumpkin grows, so does their bond. Called /**“a delightfully 
daft and incredibly charming family film”**/ by Movies We Texted About, 
it stars Priya-Rose Brookwell as Charlie and features many recognisable 
faces, including Golda Rosheuvel, Nick Frost, Joe Wilkinson, Jane 
Horrocks, and Jeremy Swift.

Learn about the life of Tourette's spokesperson and Galashiels local 
John Davidson in the uplifting and inspirational Scottish biopic /**I 
Swear**/ <https://youtu.be/oeWqQN3snCU> (the trailer contains strong 
language). It traces the difficulties John faced as a teenager and young 
adult when there was little understanding about the condition. Full of 
heart and humour, Time Out describes it as, /**“Empathetic, funny and 
myth-busting”**/. Featuring a lauded performance by Robert Amarayo, it 
contains strong, and at times humorous, language throughout.

In /**One Battle After Another**/ <https://youtu.be/feOQFKv2Lw4>, 
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a paranoid ex-revolutionary who must reunite 
his old team when his daughter is kidnapped by his old nemesis, played 
by Sean Penn. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, this action thriller 
adapted from Thomas Pynchon's novel //Vineland// features plenty of 
humour, and also stars Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, and Teyana Taylor. 
Empire called it /**“A stone-cold, instant classic”**/.

If you fancy a bit of a fright, you might want to watch /**The 
Conjuring: Last Rites**/ <https://youtu.be/bMgfsdYoEEo?>, the latest 
film in the terrifying series. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return as 
paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren, who try to help a 
family being haunted by a malevolent entity, which may be a demon 
connected to Lorraine and Ed's past. Based on a true story from 1980s 
Pennsylvania, The Times described it as /**“suitably shiver-inducing”**/.

Premiering next weekend is the musical biopic /**Springsteen: Deliver Me 
from Nowhere**/ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQXdM3J33No> starring 
Jeremy Allen White as The Boss himself. Rather than charting 
Springsteen's whole life and career, this film focuses on the time he 
spent tackling his personal demons, which resulted in Nebraska, 
considered one of his best albums. Also starring Stephen Graham as 
Springsteen's father, The Wrap calls it /**“A bracing and moving 
antidote to beefed-up, heavily fictionalized rock biopics”**/.

**Relaxed screenings**
**Watch a family film in an adapted environment**

We have three relaxed screenings of /**Grow**/ 
<https://youtu.be/Jbfl-n50f8U?> currently on sale.

**Lochgilphead**, 5.30pm on Sunday 2 November
**Mallaig**, 5.30pm on Wednesday 12 November
**Fort Augustus**, 5.30pm on Sunday 16 November

The adaptations for these screenings include reduced capacity, captions, 
medium lighting, and more. You can read about relaxed screenings in full 
on our website by clicking here 
<https://www.screenmachine.co.uk/relaxed-screenings/>.

We plan to do more relaxed screenings for future visits. Click here 
<https://mailchi.mp/screenmachine.co.uk/relaxed-screenings-mailing-list> if 
you would like to receive our newsletter about relaxed screenings.

**The Curse of the Were-Rabbit**
2005 (U) 76 mins
Available on BBC iPlayer for 12 days 
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00gd1rn/wallace-gromit-the-curse-of-the-wererabbit>
Days before the annual vegetable growing competition begins, Wallace and 
Gromit must try to find a giant rabbit that is destroying allotments and 
vegetable patches.

**Edward Scissorhands**
1990 (12) 108 mins
Available on BBC iPlayer for 25 days 
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001gdny/edward-scissorhands>
Johnny Depp stars as the eponymous Edward, an unfinished humanoid with 
scissors for hands who moves in with a suburban family and falls in love 
with their daughter, played by Winona Ryder.

**The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent**
2021 (15) 107 mins
Available on Channel 4 for 11 days 
<https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent>
Action comedy starring Nicholas Cage as himself, who is be the guest of 
honour at the birthday of a billionaire (Pedro Pescal). But when the CIA 
turns up things start to get out of hand.

**The Menu**
2022 (15) 103 mins
Available on Channel 4 for 25 days 
<https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-menu>
Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Nicholas Hoult star in this black 
comedy horror about a chef inviting selected guests to a private meal, 
but nothing is as it seems.

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

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