CIFF announces plan to tackle lack of downtown Calgary cinemas

The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is rolling with the punches and reinventing itself because it prepares for its twenty fifth anniversary.

The pageant has give you, not one, however many new spots to display screen movies with the lack of the Eau Claire Market cinemas. Eau Claire has served because the pageant hub for over a decade.

The organizers are calling it “constellation” — with the thought to attach venues and actions all through downtown Calgary. CIFF might be activating cinema capability in arts and multi-purpose areas, theatre venues, public plazas and different companion areas.

Executive Director Katherine Penhale says they may even be shopping for six high-end projectors to permit them extra freedom to create distinctive experiences.

“Like when we did ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ with Chad VanGaalen being able to do a live score in front of it,” she says. “These projectors will allow us to do more experimental, cross-collaborative programming with other organizations.”

The plan will assist enhance cinema capability downtown, which has dropped by greater than 85 per cent for the reason that pageant first began 25 years in the past. Penhale says the “constellation” might be prepared for the 2026 model of the pageant.

“The idea of being able to light up all of these venues in unison by September 2026 and create a really, really special experience for Calgarians, and for those who want to visit Calgary — it’s a pretty exciting plan,” she says.

This 12 months CIFF will display screen movies out of Contemporary Calgary, Globe Cinema, and The Plaza Theatre. Cineplex Scotiabank Chinook Theatre would be the fourth venue in 2024 to facilitate the screening capability CIFF must have fun the twenty fifth anniversary of the pageant.

The 2024 model of CIFF runs from Sept. 19 to Sept. 29. More data will be discovered right here.