Hippodrome Silent Film Festival

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/e/wHUEsCoc82b 🖥️ Read: hippfest.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/hip…

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/26087593.…

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/3XpPze… 🎞️ Submit a film: the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list

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/e/wHUEsCoc82b 🖥️ hippfest.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/hip…

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/2026/05/11/the…

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: …relandhardypresentedbyneilbrand.co.uk

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/2026/04/a-hipp…

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/04DK2u… 🖥️ Read the transcript: hippfest.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/hip…

Anyone else spending their Saturday night reminiscing about watching a silent film programme on the platform of @bonessrailway? 🚂 Remember the deadline to participate in our #HippFest2026 evaluation survey closes at midnight tomorrow! Info: hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/ 📷 Diana Dumi

What a joy to catch Jay Weissberg (Director of @PordenoneSilent) last month, and ask his thoughts on #HippFest2026! "It's lovely to be in a community where the cinema that has been a part of this community for so long remains a vital element in the structure of the town." 📽️❤️

How Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin did some of their stunts.

A fantastic feature from Henry Roberts in the @independent, who travelled from London to Bo'ness for #HippFest2026: 'It was five days to make you fall in love with cinema – for the first time or, for me, all over again.' 📰 Read in full: independent.co.uk/travel/uk/scot… #SilentFilm

Sunday reads! via @MixUpTheatre: a ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ review from Houston (age 9) and Mum: 'Hippfest Laurel and Hardy...well, it was incredible. The live piano and percussion really set the scene in transporting you back in time.' 📰 Read in full here: mixuptheatre.com/post/film-revi…

Friday night Flapper throwback anyone? 💃 We had a blast at our Charleston workshop last month, where tutor Rowan Mitchell transported attendees to the glittering Jazz Age. A prohibition-style mocktail helped participants hydrate before the hard work got underway... 📷 Diana Dumi

4 weeks ago today... the calm before the storm! 🍿 A beautiful picture of @HippodromeFilm before we opened the doors for the first time! AAAAND yet another wee reminder to let us know about your visit to #HippFest2026 - all the details via: hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/ 📷 Diana Dumi

If only every day could start with a game of Heids or Bahookies and end with a jam-packed screening of The Cameraman (1928), accompanied by super-duo John Sweeney & Frank Bockius... ❤️ #SilentFilm #BusterKeaton Let us know about your visit: hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/ 📷 Diana Dumi

'This was a superb programme enabling anyone around the world with a love of silent cinema to discover rare and beautiful material from a century ago, brilliantly augmented by new music.' Huge thank to Adrian Ross (@TheReviewsHub) for this wonderful #HippFestAtHome2026 review!

How has it already been 2 whole weeks since our #HippFest2026 Friday Night Gala? ✨🤩 We had a fabulous night at @HippodromeFilm with canapes, fizz, our golden tombola, glad rags aplenty, impromptu charleston-ing, and of course Why Be Good? (1929). Did you try the photobooth?

Feedback please! 🙏 Now that the dust is settling on our sixteenth edition we are keen to hear all about your visit. Enter the prize draw to win a Festival Pass for #HippFest2027: email hippfest@falkirk.gov.uk to confirm participation by Sun 26 April. ✅ arts-culture-surveys.org/surveys/en-GB/…