Tiffany Murray from Blakeney, Gloucestershire, moved to Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire aged six after her mum, a Cordon Bleu chef, got a job there after being praised by the band Black Sabbath.
Originally opened in a repurposed church in 1978, the cinema was shuttered following the collapse of its parent charity Centre for the Moving Image.Since then, the building has undergone a £2m refurbishment that has seen a complete internal refit to the public areas and screens, and "substantial" repairs to the roof and stonework.
The venue will boast a total capacity of 350 seats and the former three-screen cinema will now offer a fourth, seating 24, for private screenings.A-listers from the film world got behind the campaign to save the well-loved cinema, including patrons Jack Lowden and Charlotte Wells and supporters Dougray Scott, Brian Cox, and Emma Thompson.When the cinema opens, it will show a programme of films missed during the venue's almost three year closure.
Lowden, whose film credits include Dunkirk and the upcoming Tornado, said the reopened cinema would provide a lift to Scotland's film-makers and storytellers."Filmhouse is a place utterly dedicated to the promotion and celebration of independent cinema," he said.
"To have such a place on the streets of our capital providing the platform to give our world-class film-makers and storytellers the lift-off they need, and continue to ask the big questions of ourselves through cinema, is exciting and vital."
Moves to reopen the cinema began when the building's owners, Caledonian Heritable, agreed to lease the building back as a modern cinema space for a minimum period of 25 years, with a new lease being signed in July 2024.TikTok users are selling food without listing allergen information, the BBC has found.
Listings on TikTok Shop show people selling snacks and sweets without highlighting they contain one of the 14 main allergens that UK businesses are legally required to declare.When the BBC brought these listings to TikTok's attention, it deleted them and said: "TikTok Shop is committed to providing a safe and trustworthy shopping experience."
Simon Williams, chief executive of Anaphylaxis UK, warned allergy suffers: "If the ingredient and allergen information isn't there, don't buy it. You're putting your life in grave danger."A TikTok spokesperson said: "We have policies and processes in place with our sellers to ensure the safety of food and beverages sold on our platform and we will remove products that breach these policies."