Gwennap Pit will host a very special outdoor cinema screening next Tuesday as Cornish independent movie Tin returns to the big screen for the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site 'Tinth' Anniversary.

The micro-budget film, made entirely in Cornwall and starring Jenny Agutter, Dudley Sutton and Redruth-born opera star, Benjamin Luxon, alongside a cast of Miracle Theatre regulars, tells the tale of a weather-beaten opera company, which arrives to perform in the town hall and becomes tangled up in a scam to offload shares in an ailing tin mine.

Writer and director Bill Scott, of Miracle Theatre, said: “The film brings a chapter of our mining heritage to life in a unique way which will have special appeal to lovers of Cornwall, while the human story at the heart of the film should charm audiences everywhere.”

To celebrate ten years of Cornwall’s World Heritage Status, Tin will be screened in unique tin mining locations across the county, including the magnificent Gwennap Pit and Botallack Count House in Penwith, the real-life location of fraud at the centre of the story – and where some of the film was shot.

Bill added: “There was something extraordinarily moving about filming at Botallack, not just because of its archetypal Cornish landscape, powerful and packed with remnants of a glorious industrial past, but because the real-life characters described in the novel Tin actually lived, breathed and schemed on that very spot, over a hundred years ago.”

The film will be shown at Gwennap Pit, near Redruth, on Tuesday August 23, and Botallack Count House near St Just, on August 24 and 25, and the sites will be open from 8pm for picnics and sightseeing, with screenings due to commence at sunset, at around 9pm.

It’s open-air, so visitors are reminded to bring a chair - or a rug and a blanket for Gwennap Pit which is a tiered venue - and come prepared whatever the weather.

For tickets call CRBO on 01726 879 500 or go to www.tinmovie.com.