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11 Sep 2020
I had to lie down after this 🙌🏻🙏🏻 @PeterBradshaw1
★★★★★ "What a thoroughly wonderful sophomore feature from the British director @BASharrock – witty, poignant, marvellously composed and shot, moving and even weirdly gripping." theguardian.com/film/2020/se…
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Ben Sharrock retweeted
15 May 2024
This indie film industry is FULL of wealth and privilege, they are the only people who are able to do this full time without another job. It is quite frankly appalling that we allow so much talent, and with it the cultural value of their stories, to be pushed out.
14 May 2024
Working class creatives in film and TV at lowest level in decade
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Ben Sharrock retweeted
20 Jun 2023
Limbo is one of the best films of the last ten years & @BASharrock is a genius. Please don’t be put off by the fact that I’m in this film for a couple of minutes
20 Jun 2023
Tonight is the night! To mark #WorldRefugeeDay we’re having our network premiere of #limbofilm on @film4 and what better way to do with a Limbo-Local Hero double bill 💪🙌 catch me chatting about Local Hero for @Film4 40th bday ❤️
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20 Jun 2023
Tonight is the night! To mark #WorldRefugeeDay we’re having our network premiere of #limbofilm on @film4 and what better way to do with a Limbo-Local Hero double bill 💪🙌 catch me chatting about Local Hero for @Film4 40th bday ❤️
Follow the 40th-anniversary screening of Local Hero at 6.35pm with an interview with director Ben Sharrock (@BASharrock), who talks about how this warmly humorous and beautiful movie inspired his own Film4-backed Limbo, premiering at 9pm.
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Ben Sharrock retweeted
19 Jun 2023
“I am struck by the alarming level of tolerance to serious human rights violations against refugees, asylum seekers and migrants that has developed across Europe,” says Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, @Dunja_Mijatovic, in Lampedusa today. coe.int/en/web/commissioner/…
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Ben Sharrock retweeted
6 Apr 2023
All is not lost in the fight for @Filmhouse. Join the @SaveFilmhouse group for their National Protest for the Arts on 15 April, coinciding with World Art Day. 📸Yulia Kovanova theskinny.co.uk/film/news/sa…
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Ben Sharrock retweeted
20 Mar 2023
🎥 Exclusive: @theSNP has intervened on the future of the @Filmhouse building in Edinburgh by demanding it reopen as an art house cinema. 🎥
scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-a… @TheScotsman @scotsman_arts @screenscots @edinburgh_cc
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Ben Sharrock retweeted
19 Mar 2023
The Filmhouse is not a relic of the golden film days, it’s the most important cinema in Edinburgh and it was shockingly allowed to fall into the hands of administrators - it must be saved! #SaveTheFilmhouse
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Ben Sharrock retweeted
18 Dec 2022
Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti has been arrested
for denouncing state murder of protestor.
I've just made film about Mussolini. This is Iranian Fascism. Regime is like the blackshirts.
Shame on it for its misogyny. It continues to wreck one of the world's greatest countries.
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Ben Sharrock retweeted
14 Dec 2022
This means three attempts at keeping it as a cinema have now failed and clearly not for a lack of interested parties. It’s baffling that the future of the Filmhouse seems to now be a mere financial equation.
14 Dec 2022
Exclusive: A new rescue bid for Edinburgh’s @Filmhouse cinema has been rejected by administrators after Summerhall’s founder tabled a £1.5m bid for the building. scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-a… @TheScotsman @scotsman_arts @SaveFilmhouse @edfilmfest
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12 Dec 2022
Thank you! 🙌🙏
12 Dec 2022
Congratulations to @LimboFilm🎊🎊, a UK 🇬🇧film directed by @BASharrock which won 3 awards at the Algiers🇩🇿 International Cinema Festival. Limbo won the Grand Prize, the Audience Award and a medal by the @UNESCO CICT International Council for Film, Television and Audio-visual.
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Ben Sharrock retweeted
28 Nov 2022
Dear friends, please support the campaign to Save #Edinburgh #Filmhouse! and re-tweet @ArrowFilmsVideo @BFI @CurzonFilm @EuropaCinema @janusfilms @ParkCircusFilms @Eurekavideo @vertigofilmuk @thirdwindow @StudiocanalUK @ICOtweets @cinemaforall crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-fil…
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Ben Sharrock retweeted
20 Nov 2022
Don't forget to claim your drink at the afterparty, Mark 🍹
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Ben Sharrock retweeted
28 Nov 2022
We hit the target everyone❣ thank you to everyone who donated and shared!! We are a wee bit closer and closer to our goal.
27 Nov 2022
1/2 Thank you for the £5,000 donated since Friday towards our goal of an additional £10,000 this weekend!
Donations gathered up to amount of £10,000 before MIDNIGHT will be matched thanks to the generosity of the Arch Stanton Foundation of Boston (USA).
Link in thread ⬇️
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17 Nov 2022
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16 Nov 2022
🎥 New crowdfunding campaign launched to “raise £2 million in a fortnight” to secure the future of the @filmhouse building in Edinburgh as an “an independent and cultural cinema hub.” 🎥
scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-a…
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8 Nov 2022
Better late than never. This fundraiser is still going. Please donate and/or share👇👇🙏
Former CMI Staff Welfare fund
gofund.me/491dfac2
Ben Sharrock retweeted
3 Nov 2022
The thought has crossed my mind. The woeful current crop of councillors seem far more interested in trees and cycle lanes than sustaining the city’s cultural treasures.
3 Nov 2022
£36million to be spent on tarting up swanky George St?
That would pay for a state of the art renovation of @LeithTheatre plus save Edinburgh's @Filmhouse
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Ben Sharrock retweeted
3 Nov 2022
I realise there are mixed views on this, but I think Edinburgh should fight tooth & nail to ensure this remains a home for cinema. Historic picture houses have been revived & rejuvenated across Scotland in modern times. It would be a tragedy if Edinburgh cannot do the same.
2 Nov 2022
NEW: Edinburgh’s landmark @filmhouse building has gone on sale, marketed as a “unique leisure-development opportunity.”
Sales brochure: “We believe the property would be suited to a number of alternative uses, subject to obtaining the necessary consents.”
scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-a…
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3 Nov 2022
Big love to @Channel4 @Film4 happy birthday! 🥳 Thank you for your work. Thank you for inspiring me and giving the world so many unforgettable films. Thanks for helping me procrastinate when I was at Uni. Proud to be part of the club. Here’s to 40 more years 🥂 #channel4 #film4
40 years of Channel 4. You can only imagine how many complaints we’ve had in that time.
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