Azzel, Niger: Mobile Open Air Cinema Brings Entertainment and Education to the Villages
After a long drive through northern Niger's arid landscape, a minivan pulls into the remote desert oasis of Azzel — bringing not supplies, but entertainment…
Blog — page 56
Twenty years of outdoor cinema: event reports, buying guides, setup how-tos and news from the field.
Sydney, Australia: Starlight Outdoor Cinema Hosts a Short Film Festival
Sydney's Starlight Cinema launched “Starlight Shorts,” an open-air short film competition at North Sydney Oval. Filmmakers of any age were invited to submit…
Open Air Tutorial: Outdoor Projectors and Outdoor Projection
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Open Air Cinema Provides Inflatable Movie Screens to NGOs in Africa at Subsidized Rate
Open Air Cinema launched a subsidized program to supply NGOs and small business owners in Africa with complete inflatable cinema systems — screen, projector…
Outdoor Movies at Hudson River Park, New York City
Hudson River Park runs free outdoor movie screenings at two piers throughout summer. Wednesdays at Pier 54 lean toward classic and adult-oriented programming…
McCarren Park, New York: 'Summerscreen' Outdoor Movies
“Summerscreen” at McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn runs Monday evenings with a $3 suggested donation. The series leans toward classic and offbeat programming…
Adelaide, Australia: Shorts Film Festival with Outdoor Movie Screenings
The Shorts Film Festival in Adelaide ran November 26–30, presenting 74 films selected from 210 entries. The festival was founded and run by David Lightfoot…
Sebring, Florida: 'Movies by Moonlight'- Free Outdoor Movies in Sebring, Florida
The Sebring Public Library and the Highlands Art League launched “Movies by Moonlight,” a free Saturday evening outdoor movie series at the Yellow House on…
Pai, Thailand: Outdoor Film Festival Screens Outdoor Movies in Pai, Thailand
The International Film & Animation Festival 2008 took place in Pai, Thailand, from November 28 to December 7. Pai is a small town in the mountains of northern…
New York City, New York: Outdoor Movies in Bryant Park
Every Monday evening during summer, free outdoor movies screen in Bryant Park, New York City. The HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival, presented by Fresh Air…
Maui, Hawaii: Outdoor Movies at the Maui Film Festival
The Maui Film Festival -- nicknamed “Sanddance” after Sundance -- is among the most relaxed film festivals in existence, featuring outdoor screenings at four…
Manaus, Brazil: Experience the Amazon with Outdoor Movies at the Amazonas Film Festival
The Amazonas Film Festival takes place each November at the Teatro Amazonas -- a spectacular Renaissance-style 19th-century opera house in Manaus, Brazil…
Whistler, Canada: Outdoor Movies in the Snow at Whistler Film Festival
Whistler Film Festival, running since its 2002 launch, has expanded each year -- this edition featuring 92 films, including outdoor movies in the snow. Guests…
Marrakesh, Morocco: Outdoor Movies at the Marrakesh International Film Festival
King Mohamed VI decreed the Marrakesh International Film Festival into existence to draw visitors during November, the beginning of the rainy season in coastal…
Cromarty, Scotland: World's Smallest Drive-In Kicks Off Cromarty Film Festival
Two cars boarded a ferry called the Cromarty Rose and watched an outdoor movie in what may have been the world's smallest drive-in cinema. The ship held only…
Cromarty, Scotland: Outdoor Movies at the Cromarty Film Festival
The Cromarty Film Festival's outdoor programme, Northern Exposure, screens films made in or about northern Scotland in the parking area next to the Londis in…
Outdoor Movies with the Power to Inspire Vietnam-Era Refugees in Guam
In April 1975, shortly before the end of the Vietnam War, my family boarded an American military aircraft and fled Saigon, the city of my birth. We came to…
El Paso, Texas: Al Fresco Art Exhibit Makes Use of Outdoor Projectors
The Neighborhood Watch Collective held its second outdoor projection show at Mundy Park (500 Porfirio Diaz) in El Paso's Sunset Heights neighborhood, running…
Tromso, Norway: Outdoor Movies at Norway's Tromso International Film Festival
Tromsø International Film Festival is held each January in the dark polar nights of northern Norway, giving it the distinctive opportunity to screen outdoor…
Santorini, Greece: See Outdoor Movies at Open Air Cinema Kamari
Open-air cinemas have been a fixture of Greek summers for nearly a century. Films first reached smaller towns and villages through screenings in local kafeneia…
Outdoor Movies at Monaco's Open Air Cinema
Monaco's open-air summer cinema sits just along from the Oceanographic Museum on the Rock, screening films in English with French subtitles from around 10 p.m…
Busan, South Korea: Innovative Architecture Makes Use of an Open Air Cinema in Busan, South Korea
Dutch architecture firm MVRDV designed the City Sofa -- a proposed new film palace for the Busan International Film Festival -- as a “cinematic village” of…
Baltimore, Maryland: Outdoor Movies at Bengie's Drive-In Theater
Bengies Drive-In Theatre in Baltimore has operated since June 6, 1956, carrying the largest movie theatre screen in the United States: 52 feet high, 120 feet…
Crawford (2008)
"Focuses not on stereotypes but on human beings, who are a lot more complicated than red-and-blue, and the way political strategies touch their lives." I've…
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