A restored cinema built its opening programme entirely from audience ballots
No distributor deals, no blockbuster weekend. Four thousand ballot forms decided the schedule.
The ballot went out with the restoration fundraiser. Four thousand came back, and the programming team simply counted them.
The result
The schedule is one no distributor would have proposed — and one the cinema says is comfortably ahead of its projections.
The venue plans to repeat the ballot each season.
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