Session Date & Time Tuesday, January 15 at 3:30pm Session Description Race in America is a complicated issue with a deep institutional history, especially in media. These complexities play out in the Art House, evident in the historical “art house” audience, and in the films that appear, and don’t appear, on screen. Ava DuVernay, the [...]

The Art House Convergence was deeply saddened to hear of the loss of our colleague, Bernice Capozzi-Baeza (1943 – 2012), founder and director of The Lark Theater in Larkspur, California. Our condolences go to her family, friends, and all those whose lives she enriched with her tireless work of behalf of The Lark. Pasted below [...]

  “The film world – be it in content, creation, business or audience – has changed significantly over the last twenty years and we all must change with it…It’s time that the film industry looked not just to Hollywood but instead to the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, and San Francisco Film Society is a [...]

From the warm, Southern state of Alabama, the Capri Theatre and its Director, Martin McCaffery give us an insight into the theater and its future! Please give us a brief history of your organization and the types of films you show: The Capri Community Film Society took over operation of the Capri Theatre (born the [...]

For our first ‘Spotlight On’ back, we invited the Gold Town Nickelodeon Theater to let us know what’s going on in Juneau! Please give us a brief history of your organization and the types of films you show. Gold Town Theater is located in downtown Juneau, Alaska, in the Emporium Building,  which originally held the Alaska Steam [...]

Telluride Film Festival Co-Director Gary Meyer recently contributed the following post to the Art House Convergence Google Group. It is reprinted here with his permission. When I read reports about successes various exhibitors are having with MARGARET it reminds and inspires me that we should be careful not to write off films based on their [...]

Pandora’s digital box: Art house, smart house David Bordwell is the Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His full blog on digital transition, which he writes with his wife, Kristin Thompson, can be found at http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/. Blog republished with permission from David Bordwell   The Art Theater, Champaign, Illinois. Photo by Sanford Hess, reproduced [...]

This week’s Spotlight AHC takes a look at the Indiana University Cinema, located (you guessed it) on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. On the eve of the cinema’s first anniversary, director Jon Vickers answers our questions below. Please give us a brief history of your organization and the types of films you [...]

With great sadness, we acknowledge the passing of our legendary colleague Bingham Ray, an institution in the independent film world. Bingham’s foundational contributions to our community played an indelible role in making independent film what it is today. All of us at the Art House Convergence offer our support and deepest condolences family. His legacy [...]

Session Date & Time Thursday, January 19 at 9:30am (Grindlewald) Session Description How can you maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of your Art House concession stand? The Proctor Company is a leader in the design, fabrication and installation of food service facilities and equipment that enhances the profitability of theaters and excites the experience of [...]