Conversations Across Screen Cultures: The Role of Community Movie Theaters

Join the conversation in this special FLEFF collaboration with Conversations Across Screen Cultures, an online initiative featuring live interviews and discussions with cutting-edge film and media scholars and industry practitioners. 

Kate Donohue (executive director of Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY) will discuss the unique role of community-oriented movie theaters in conversation with Matthew Holtmeier and Chelsea Wessels (film scholars who recently established the Bud Frank Cinema in their own community of Johnson City, Tennessee).

Register online for this event co-sponsored by the Media and Society program of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Zoom: Tuesday March 24, 7pm (FREE EVENT)


Conversations Across Screen Cultures is a collaboratively produced speaker series that creates space for dynamic conversations among screen studies scholars and practitioners. Sessions feature open discussion and dialogue between speakers and attendees. Begun by Patty Zimmermann during the pandemic lockdown, Conversations Across Screen Cultures honors Patty’s legacy by promoting connection and collaboration as critical modes for screen studies practice.