NBMovies

Founded in 2000 as North Berwick Cinema Club, our aim was to bring the cinema back to North Berwick after the closure of the town’s last cinema, The Playhouse, in 1984. Since then we have shown over 200 films including main stream blockbusters, some of the classics, foreign language films, animations and local Scottish films.

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National Lottery’s Awards for All helped us to buy our original kit: digital projector, 12ft wide screen, DVD player and sound equipment. With this, NB Movies embraced the opportunity to show films at a wide range of venues in our community to support other local interest groups and to help with charity fundraising for the RNLI, Music Therapy Group and the Youth Café to name just a few. Working with the Youth Café we also helped to get grants to refurbish one of our former venues – the Hope Rooms – which now has in-built projection and sound equipment.

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NB Movies more recently made a major investment towards improving the standard of our screenings. We installed a 4.5m screen at the North Berwick Community Centre, along with a Full HD projector and Blu-Ray player to enable HD screening and High Fidelity sound equipment. Our audiences have been appreciating the improved cinema quality sound and projection systems that are now in place!

To date, we have staged three major outdoor events which attracted audiences of over 1,000 people. Our Bollywood night, teaming up with the local Indian community who cooked us a fabulous supper, was another highlight. Also, working with Transition North Berwick, NB Movies helped to promote environmental awareness with a short festival of beautiful and thought-provoking films. In August 2018, we hosted a Mini International Film Festival at the Freemasons Hall as part of North Berwick's Fringe by the Sea. This is an event we hope to repeat in future years! Also, following the successful screening of the 'Phantom of the Opera' silent movie with organ accompaniment in 2017, we repeated this experience with the 1923 silent movie ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ in 2018 and then Buster Keaton’s ‘The General’ in 2019 all in St Baldred's Church, North Berwick and accompanied by Larry McGuire - Scotland’s last theatre organist who sadly died recently; donations went to the Organ Fund with refreshments afterwards. At the Community Centre, our new home since 2019, we have put on films for various clubs and organisations in addition to our regular Friday screenings.