Documentary-only theater to open in New York

[marmar]

Filmmakers Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock Tuesday welcomed the arrival of an all-documentary theater in downtown Manhattan.

The 73-seat documentary theater, expected to open in early 2015 and be the first of its kind in the U.S., will be housed in a landmark firehouse on Lafayette Street where the Downtown Community Television Center operates.

"We need truth now during these times more than ever," Moore, director of "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 9/11," said at the groundbreaking ceremony. "I hope this theater becomes a model for other documentary filmmakers to open other theaters like this around the country."

Moore and Spurlock, who directed "Super Size Me," will also be on an advisory council for DCTV, an education and production center for filmmakers and students started by husband-and-wife documentarians Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno in 1972. ........................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/ribbon-cut-on-new-downtown-movie-theater-1.5216102

[librechik]

1. oh, that's the one!

cuz America hates truesome stuf

[NightWatcher]

2. Will the snack bar sell antidepressants

Or will they just hand you lemons and expect you to make the lemonade?

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Great news, in the tradition of the Living Newspapers out of the WPA's Federal Theater

Project. A bit of information here:
edited, I can't make links work on DU anymore, sorry. It is worth looking up Living Newspaper and reading up...