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 [...]

The Sundance Institute has announced the films from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival that will screen in independent theaters in nine different cities around the country. The screenings are part of Sundance Film Festival USA, a program designed to bring the Festival experience to film-loving audiences nationwide. Full Release with Titles: Sundance Institute announced today [...]

Tim League (@TimAlamo) took a lifelong love of movies and built a wildly popular independent movie theater chain. This former Shell Oil engineer will talk about creating and maintaining one of the coolest Art Houses in the world with good food, adult beverages, terrific films, Fantastic Fest and the Rolling Roadshow. What topics would you [...]

The hottest topic in the indie cinema world today will be the focus of this special two-part session, taking place on Wednesday, January 18. Digital projection in the form of Blu-ray or DVD is a part of most art house operations, but for most — or all — theaters, DCI-compliant systems are soon to be [...]

The 2012 Art House Convergence is in its fifth year of bringing together community-based, mission-driven cinema operators from throughout North America. 250 delegates will attend this year’s Convergence – an all-time record! The purpose of the Art House Convergence is to increase the quantity and quality of Art House theaters in North America. At the [...]