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As more and more local cinema are closed, citizens of a small way without profit organizations to buy and exploit them.
By Jim Zarrol
Nicki Wilson surprised when his local newspaper reported in March 2023 that the Triplex Theater, an independent space in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, closed approximately 3 decades in business.
Triplex, the only theater in the city, a highly appreciated element, attracting the spectators of all Berkshires, even winter nights when it doesn’t open much more, Mrs. Wilson said.
“I couldn’t believe that living in a city without cinema,” he said.
Mrs. Wilson was not the only one to feel this, and after a network campaign, Triplex reopened in November 2023 in a very different way. It is no longer based on the sale of price tickets and corn popcorn. Triplex has a non -profit organization that is based on donations, subsidies and a lot of voluntary work. And instead of depending on the next Hollywood box office success, triplex focuses on what the network needs to see.
“In an independent theater, you can show what you want,” said Gail Lansky, vice president of the Triplex Board of Directors. “It can show retrospective. You can show foreign films. You can make film festivals. Free Saturdays for young people »
It is true that all non -profit theaters are working well, however, the style has worked, at least until now, in positions such as the Berkshires, where a faithful and good clientele -Nani is organized and is able to support the Artsadray two non -profit that are not fine that not the profits of cinemas in New York, Millerton’s cinema and the Chatham Crandell theater, attracted to significant fans. Throughout the country, more than 250 cinemas are non -profit organizations, said Bryan Braunlich, executive director of Cinema Foundation, a film organization that supplies studies for cinemas.
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