Campbeltown audiences responded well to the area’s first climate action film festival, with organisers hoping for a second installment next year.
South Kintyre Development Trust’s Kintyre Climate Action campaign group and Campbeltown Picture House joined forces to present a series of films about climate change in a bid to spark conversation and encourage action.
The cinema hosted one-off ‘pay what you can’ screenings of the documentaries The Nettle Dress, Riverwoods, Plastic Warriors and the drama film How to Blow Up a Pipeline, which feature a range of climate change topics.
A spokesperson for the campaign group said: “Kintyre Climate Action was delighted to assist in bringing this concept, run successfully at independent cinemas elsewhere in Scotland, to Kintyre filmgoers, with an impactful line-up of films across two weekends, exploring a wide range of subjects relating to climate action, which strongly resonate with our aims to foster conversation and action at community level.”
Ellen Mainwood, manager of the cinema, added: “It was very interesting researching the films to play for our inaugural climate action film festival.
“We hope to make this an annual event and continue the conversation around what we can do to engage more effectively in this important subject.”