{"id":70096,"date":"2026-04-23T09:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=70096"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:57:35","slug":"watch-sheffield-cinema-wins-lottery-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/watch-sheffield-cinema-wins-lottery-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Sheffield cinema wins lottery funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An independent Sheffield cinema has won National Lottery funding to launch a new three-year project titled \u2018Festival Foundations &amp; Film Futures\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Showroom Cinema, located on Paternoster Row, is one of 23 beneficiaries of the British Film Institute (BFI) National Lottery Audience Projects Fund and has received a grant of \u00a3585,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funding is set to be used to develop a new film festival in Sheffield later this year which will be dedicated to children and young adults.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nathan Makalena, the cinema&#8217;s creative coordinator, says that they are &#8220;delighted&#8221; with the announcement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Showroom Cinema awarded BFI lottery funding\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M6ek-Z7ly68?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showroom cinema have won BFI funding for an exciting new film project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":791,"featured_media":70101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,103],"tags":[1309,129,2133,15,38,1310],"class_list":["post-70096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-watch","tag-cinema","tag-funding","tag-lottery","tag-news","tag-sheffield","tag-showroom-cinema"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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