The good news is, we have a new venue for our Friday Night Movies. The management of the Echuca Paramount has graciously offered us the use of the Monash Room for our monthly meetings and our DVD screenings. Rather appropriate for the Film Society to be housed in a movie theatre, don't you think?
The bad news is, we won't be able to take advantage of it until March.
Let me explain: Since we are no longer running our Friday Night Movies at Wesley Chapel, the Church License we used all last year is no longer valid, and we had to seek a new licensing structure. Fortunately, the Australian Council of Film Societies just struck a deal with Village Roadshow and other distributors to offer film rights to Film Societies at a cost of only $50 (plust gst) per film. While this is more than we were paying with the Church License, it's far less than the previous, pre-deal cost, which could run upwards of $300 per film.
The problem that we've run into is that each film must be licensed individually, and since we're just getting started, it's taking longer than expected to license our first film. (Future films will be licensed months ahead of time, to avoid just this situation.)
We will attempt to make up for this "lost" film by adding one during the year, possibly with another Christmas break-up film, like we did this past year.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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