FLIFF invites you to a FREE screening of the compelling documentary ONLY IN THEATERS. Followed by a panel discussion featuring Broward Cultural Division Director, Philip Dunlap and Broward County film specialist, Christy Andreoni.

“IT’S A BEAUTIFUL FILM, AND A TIMELY ONE.”
-CLAUDIA PUIG, PRESIDENT, LA FILM CRITIC’S ASSOC

Featuring Interviews with
DIRECTORS & AWARD WINNERS: Ava DuVernay, Allison Anders, Cameron Crowe,  Nicole Holofcener, James Ivory, and more.   CRITICS AND WRITERS: Edward Goldman, Kevin Thomas, Kenneth Turan and Bruce Joel Rubin to name a few. FILM HISTORIANS AND EXPERTS: Leonard Maltin, Ross Melnick, Michael Renov, and Mark Ulano.

ONLY IN THEATERS chronicles four generations of the Laemmle family who have dedicated themselves to supporting, innovating, and elevating the art of filmmaking.  The beloved 84-year-old arthouse cinema chain, Laemmle Theatres, in Los Angeles, is facing seismic change and downward pressure. Yet the family behind this multigenerational business – whose sole mission has been to support the art of film – is determined to see it survive.
As movie lovers, and especially as movie lovers who value the theatrical experience, it’s been a hard few years. Even before the pandemic hit in 2020, movie theaters, those great gathering places to be together taking in big-screen dreams, closed as the airborne virus swept the globe, and streaming behemoths filled the void with a never-ending beam of content pointed directly into our homes

Will movie theaters survive?   What of the theaters that specialize in arthouse, international and indie content? Will anyone ever want to leave their house for a movie again?  These questions plagued the industry, cinephiles, and especially exhibitors in the rocky period of 2020-2021 as theaters re-opened their doors…we’re not out of the woods just yet.

“’ Only in Theatres’ works as both a state-of-industry insight for those with a professional interest and an irresistible story of an American dynasty and love letter to cinema for a general audience” — WF, Galway Film Festival