Silver ScreenCinema

Chris Lightwing and Sandy Wallace own and run the Silver Screen Cinema from the upper floors of Folkestone's Town Hall, on the corner where Guildhall Street meets Sandgate Road. Screen One occupies the original 1860 assembly hall, its two levels holding 379 seats, while Screen Two is a smaller 60-seat room built in 1905 as a courtroom and council chamber, refurbished for film in 2016. The building held some of Kent's first film screenings in 1896 and operated as a Cinema De Luxe until 1912 before decades of closure. It reopened as the Silver Screen in 1990 and has stayed independent since, programming mainstream releases alongside documentary and arthouse titles and hosting the town's annual documentary festival.