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After 12 years on this platform we've decided the time has come for the curtain to close on 'X'.
You can head to hippfest.co.uk for info about all things #HippFest - including our next edition and links to our active social media profiles.
Farewell Twittersphere! 👋📽️
Reminder! @FalkirkCouncil are looking for two skilled individuals, working as part of the friendly and dedicated #HippFest2027 team. We are currently recruiting:
🟡 Freelance Marketing officer - closing 20 July
🟡 Freelance Producer - closing 10 August
hippodromecinema.co.uk/get-i…
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to yooou... 🎂 Filmhouse are turning one - technically tomorrow - and in today's show we hear from Program Manager Raymah Tariq, reflecting on the first year since reopening in June 2025.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5rd…
🖥️ hippfest.wordpress.com/2026/…
A few photos from 'Foreshore Fragments' 💎 Once a thriving centre of industrial activity, Bo’ness still holds traces of its past, revealed with low tide. Armed with notebooks & curious eyes, participants in this session were led by Eva Jack to discover the practice of mudlarking.
WE ARE HIRING! 📋 @FalkirkCouncil are looking for a highly organised, detail-focussed Freelance Producer to oversee all production aspects of #HippFest2027 as part of the friendly and dedicated festival team.
📌 Info: hippodromecinema.co.uk/get-i…
⏰ Closing: 10AM, Monday 10 August
We are on the lookout for a Freelance Marketing Officer to join the #HippFest2027 team! You will be responsible for:
📌 Marketing planning, budgeting & delivery
📌 Creating content & materials
📌 Email campaigns
📌 Liaising with Box Office
More info: hippodromecinema.co.uk/get-i…
An interesting piece from 25-year-old Jared Griffiths, considering how to attract younger audiences to #SilentFilm (a key HippFest priority!) and reflecting on @NeilBrandLive's recent #LaurelAndHardy Centenary Tour. 📰 Read in full over at Voice Mag UK: voicemag.uk/feature/16539/si…
Reminder - we're hiring a Freelance Marketing Officer to work as part of the team behind #HippFest2027! 💼 Are you marketing mad? Campaign crazy? Branding barmy? We want to hear from you!
👉 More info/recruitment pack: hippodromecinema.co.uk/get-i…
📷 Photography by Diana Dumi
We're hiring! 📢 @FalkirkCouncil are looking for an exceptional individual to lead on #Marketing as part of the friendly and dedicated team working on #HippFest2027.
📌 More info: hippodromecinema.co.uk/get-i…⏰ Deadline for applications: 10AM, Monday 20 July 2026
Happy Sunday film fans - a new HippCast Episode has landed! 🚨 We speak to #SilentFilm polymath Ben Model (@silentfilmmusic) about his recent publication (released in 2025) The Silent Film Universe. #Podcast
📻 Listen: spotifycreators-web.app.link…
💻 Read: hippfest.wordpress.com/2026/…
It's time for the @PordenoneSilent Open Call! 🎓 Now in its 28th year, the Collegium aims to remain unchanged: to attract new, young generations to the riches of silent cinema and the very special international #SilentFilm community.
📌 Info/ to apply: giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/…
In HippCast Ep. 34 we chat to two of our recent HippFest attendees, both Young Scot reward winners, about their take on the films. 16-year-old Izzie Middleton has Scotland's landscape down to a tee. 🫡
📻 Listen: spotifycreators-web.app.link…
🖥️ Read: hippfest.wordpress.com/2026/…
Screening alert! 📽️ An evening of #SilentFilm film at Burnside Hall, Dollar (Sat 23 May), 'accompanied by atmospheric piano music performed live by musician Forrester Pyke, recreating the magic of early 20th-century cinema.'
More in the @alloaadvertiser: alloaadvertiser.com/news/260…
Searching for a new #SilentFilm listen? Great news! Festival Director Alison Strauss was recently a guest on 'The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever', which, well - does exactly what it says on the tin!
📻 Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/3Xp…
🎞️ Submit a film: the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever…
Have you tuned in to our #podcast? 🔊 In Ep. 34 we hear from two first-time #HippFest attendees, both @youngscot reward winners.
"Something about the fact that the films are old almost makes it more special." - Kitty Volino
📻 spotifycreators-web.app.link…
🖥️ hippfest.wordpress.com/2026/…
We had an incredible number of entries to the LHARAs this year & a whale of a time reading all of your thoughtful responses to the films in our programme. But without further ado, the winner of our #HippFest2026 LHARAs is… Carrie Chisholm! 🏆
More here: hippfest.wordpress.com/2026/…
The Scottish leg of Neil Brand Presents: Laurel & Hardy approaches!
✳️ 12 May - Ayr, @AyrGaiety
✳️ 13 May - Edinburgh, @queens_hall
✳️ 14 May - Airdrie, @AirdrieTownHall
✳️ 15 May - Inverness, @EdenCourt
✳️ 16 May - Kirkcaldy, @ASTheatre
Info & tickets: laurelandhardypresentedbynei…
Sunday reads ☕ Yes, still bathing in the #HippFest2026 afterglow, but we PROMISE this will be our last article! Thanks Lucas McQueen @EdinReporter for reflecting on a weekend with us: 'Whatever your experience with the genre, there’s a lot to like here.' theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2…
ANNOUNCING our HippFest 2026 Audience Award Winner: New Found Sound! 🏆🌟 Congratulations to all of the incredible young musicians that performed alongside #SilentFilm from the @nlskelvinhall Moving Image Archive, plus the tutors & staff that make this possible.
📷 Kat Gollock
New podcast alert! 🚨 In today's episode we hear from two of our #HippFest2026 @YoungScot reward winners, both attending Scotland's only silent #FilmFestival for the first time.
🎧 Listen to the episode: open.spotify.com/episode/04D…
🖥️ Read the transcript: hippfest.wordpress.com/2026/…
















