Broadcast platforms such as Netflix and Amazon call us watching documentaries from our homes.
Annie Rooney, founder In reality (IRL) Film ClubHe wants to return the film lovers to the theater.
Why?
“People are hungry to communicate.” “The movie is a great way to meet others.”
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Its non -profit national organization allows the audience to gather to watch documentary films studied and communicate at the same time. There is no Netflix and preaching, just conversations in the old school about art and life.
“There is hunger for common experiences. I know I feel it, and I feel it from the members.”
Rooney brings more than 25 years of industry experience to the club. Ha Rocco movies Documentary films are distributed to the masses and media platforms all over the world. Now, it is expanding its arrival with the IRL film club, which was created last year to revive the cinematic experience.
Timing, as you see, is urgent.
Going achieved great success with the epidemic and subsequent contraction of the VOD window. She says that the problem of documentary films with sober thinking may be worse.
Rooney spent contracts bringing in documentaries for public interests to the world, whether in theaters, BBC, classrooms or management rooms.
“I see the clear decline in the commercial aspect of documentary films,” she says.
The exciting documents often receive the most attention, whether it is “Martha” from Netflix or real crime features explodes through the digital scene. She says that the club’s effect exceeds those who coordinate the documentary.
“The Americans are more isolated and divided,” she says.
IRL started last fall with “Join or DIE”, which is the first appropriate appearance due to the topic of the film. Social scientist Robert Putnam explores the hunger of society and repercussions when society stops communication.
Rooney kept the barrier in front of entering two fronts. The cost of each examination is $ 5, and the club avoids fear, and Q&S.
The club’s pioneers are asked to “wrap” and talk to their colleagues, members of the public instead.
Non -profit organizations also raise the theaters and directors concerned. Both parties receive a grant to participate in the club, which helps to fuel two parts of the film industry. Rooney says these theaters deserve a break.
They made it through Covid. It is very good in building society. “
On February 2, Irl Movie Club will check “The Thinking Game” in 67 theaters in the country. The film focuses on the life of the world insight and Nobel Prize winner Dimis Hassan And his work that involves artificial intelligence
Here are some comments obtained by those present at IRL in recent months:
I currently live in San Antonio, Texas. After reading [Robert Putnam’s] “Bowling alone”, I am enthusiastic about the construction More links and society. I love movies and I would like to support local Cinema is more.
It is really interested in expanding my horizons with what I see The movie to go to makes things easier than making a decision in a big assortment!
I am essentially excited to interact with others. I got to know that it is open before A pandemic, but I hated staying at home and I was not social as I was in the past and I was looking forward to changing this.
Those who want to see the IRL film club can visit them Official website. Visitors can propose the role of local theaters in the network, and the club will continue on their behalf.
The Rooney Group focuses only on documentaries. It can expand in the coming years.
“Realistic life stories are our specialty,” she says. “With the growth of the brand, and while we do more … there will definitely be room for imagination.”
