Matt, who volunteers on various projects in the town, said the screening was “all a little bit rigged together with gaffer tape”.
Another Knaresborough resident, Kelly Young, was given the go-ahead from Sky to run her own screenings of Tinsel Town on Friday in local pubs.
The local scenes were filmed at the beginning of the year, with the town “all revved up again” with excitement in time for the release, Ms Young said.
Filming had taken place outside her hair salon, she told BBC Radio York.
“We’ve got a beautiful, little quaint town,” she said.
“With the castle ruin right in the town centre, they used it as the backdrop of the Christmas market in the film.
“It just sheds Knaresborough in such a beautiful light.”
