About the society:

Linlithgow Film Society was founded in 1973 when the local cinema closed. With support from the Town Council, the Society started with two borrowed projectors and a temporary screen in Linlithgow Burgh Halls and among the first films to be shown was “Zulu”. Over the years the Society has progressed to the most up to date projection and sound equipment available and the comfort of raked seating in the theatre at Linlithgow Academy.

In addition to the programme shown in Linlithgow Academy Theatre the Society takes films out to the wider community, to residential care homes, sheltered housing, and the local hospital and Day Care Centre. The portable equipment used for this was purchased with assistance from Lloyds TSB Foundation.

Linlithgow Film Society is a member of the British Federation of Film Societies (B.F.F.S.). It has twice won the B.F.F.S. National Award for Community Service (the only Society to have done so). In addition it has received three B.F.F.S. (Scotland) awards and was West Lothian’s “Arts Organisation of the Year” in 1999.