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As more and more local movie theaters are closed, citizens of a small form nonprofits to buy and exploit them.
By Jim Zarroli
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.
Wilson was not alone when feeling this way, and after a network campaign, triplex was reopened in November 2023 in a very different way. It no longer depends on the sales of tickets and corn palomites. That is based on donations, subsidies and many volunteer works and depending on the next Hollywood box office success, triplex focuses on what the network needs to see.
“In an independent theater, you can show whatever you want,” said Gail Lansky, vice chairman of Triplex’s Board of Directors. “It can show retrospectives. You can show foreign movies. You can do film festivals. Free Saturdays for Youth »
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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