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Wivenhoe Film Theatre
Next phase: Moving Image
We want to tell you about our exciting plans
Reel Appeal continues to search for a long-term venue to call home, but
meanwhile our immediate project is to get screenings underway. Moving
Imageis the name of the new film society we have set up to organise this
aspect of the project. The Moving Image programme will not overlap with that
of the Film Club at the Nottage - the intention is to make more film
available locally rather than to threaten an existing enterprise. We can now
share with you our plans to show an autumn season of films in not one but
two local venues:
Starting in mid-September, we will be presenting regular Saturday night
screenings at the Phillip Road Centre. The first showing will be of the
acclaimed ‘Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll’ on the 18th September. We will also
have occasional Sunday afternoon screenings intended for family viewing.
To enhance the facilities at Phillip Road we have purchased a large, high
quality cinema screen and are installing blackout blinds and a portable box
office. Initially at Phillip Road we will use digital projectors and a sound
system loaned from the University. In due course we will buy our own
projection equipment once we have established our programme of screenings.
In addition we have been given a slot on an experimental basis in the
University’s Lakeside Theatre which has excellent facilities. At the
Lakeside we will be showing films on alternate Monday evenings during the
Autumn term, starting on 11 October.
Full details of our programmes and news of developments will be published on
our new webpage at www.movingimage.org.uk
Moving Image will be a membership organisation, and Reel Appeal Donors will
automatically become members. We intend to keep ticket prices as low as
possible consistent with the need to break even on running costs, and in
2010/11 we will be charging £5 for membership and £3 for tickets, or £4 for
non-members to include guest membership. Of course our ability to offer
regular screenings is dependent on the willingness of volunteers to support
us by joining a rota of helpers to sell tickets, set up the hall, project
the films, etc, but we hope, given the enthusiasm with which people have
welcomed news of our plans, that we will be successful.
Moira Collett
Secretary
Wivenhoe Film Theatre
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