Marketplace Cinemas launches a free series dedicated to local movies – yes! Weekly

Marketplace Cinemas and Piedmont Triad Film Commission (PTFC) have joined their efforts to present the series to pierce a self-explanation “shot in Winston-Salem”, which will show a feature film filmed in Winston-Salem and Piedmont’s region of Piedmont. The introductory presentation will be the 2008 awarded football comedy. Leather (Rated PG-13) on Sunday, February 23 from 3:00 pm at Marketplace Cinema, 2095 Peters Creek Highway, Winston-Salem. Admission is free. Tickets are the first coming, first. For more information, call 336-725-4646 or visit shot in Winston-Salem/.

The series is a natural progression for Marketplace movie theaters, which, in addition to showing studio and independent films, is constantly presenting screenings of various films and television projects produced in the area, including Table., Gin and platonicAnd the annual HAVOC Film Festival, as well as a continuing partnership with the Riverrun International Film Festival, both during the annual festival and host special festival events throughout the calendar year.

“The impulse for the series” shot in Winston-Salem “is coming from my last experiences in creating films and cinema,” explained Zack Fox, General Manager of Marketplace Cinemas and a prize-free director by themselves. “I often travel to Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia and even Western Virginia (instead of) the triad and the surrounding Piedmont regions. But now even these productions – and more bigger in Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York – are moving away from these areas. From my experience, I believe that this is an appropriate, first time to show and emphasize Winston-Salem as the wonderful option for other productions to be filmed here as I found our city. “

Rebecca Clark, CEO of PTFC, was completely on board with the idea of ​​a series dedicated to local films. “First of all, I absolutely adore Zack,” she said. “I admire his dedication to support local directors by showing their work and making my own films right here. He is a universal fantastic man! One day we had lunch, he told me the idea of ​​showing films made in the Piedmont triad. I liked the idea and I thought it could provide an excellent opportunity to emphasize the work of the Piedmont Film Commission to recruit these projects. “

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The second film in the series is the director/co -author Andrew Draz Palermo for 2015. One and two (Not evaluated) that was filmed in Forsyte and Suri and Toplines Timothee Chalamet, recently nominated for the best Oscar actor for his performance as Bob Dylan in Unknownand Kiernan Shipka, who received rave reviews for her turn as an ambitious Las Vegas dancer against Pamela Anderson in The last showS It will be shown on Sunday, March 16 at 3:00 pm

Clark herself will participate in the Q&A session after each film, discussing how they were filmed in the region and the economic benefits of shooting in the Piedmont triad.

“Rebecca Clark runs the prosecution to get more enticing incentives for the Piedmont Triad area to help attract productions here for years,” Fox said. “My hope with this screening is to show Rebecca’s hard work to help us make movies made here. We will emphasize the beauty of our city on the big screen with these films, we will talk about how they were made and how and why they came to Winston-Salem to make them. Both films represent our area strongly and have had good pulsation effects on our local film community. The film is equal to jobs, film productions help to stimulate so many local companies – hotels, restaurants, catering, brewery, news publications, cafes, retail and even car washes.

“We have a long list of movies to show in the coming months, and one thing is that we not only show” bigger “movies, but we plan to emphasize independent local functions and short films and offer new and fresh after screen conversations with Movie makers by taking advantage of the current world world.

“We thought it would be fun and educational to share these stories with the public by projecting both indie and major productions filmed here,” Clark said. “It also emphasizes the vital role of the Film Commission to attract these projects, which includes months of behind -the -scenes works: link to producers, directors and scout To win their business for Winston-Salem and the larger Piedmont triad. In addition, it is a great opportunity to discuss how the North Carolina film industry has developed over the years, increasing competition from other countries and strategies for returning high economic impact projects in the region. “

“We are fortunate enough to have a rich local and regional film heritage and to have an exhibitor like Zack Fox at Marketplace Cinemas, ready to show it,” says Rob Davis, who retires as CEO of Riverrun in December and works with Fox and Clark throughout the whole your eight -year stay. “Of course, this heritage would not be possible without the work of our regional film Commissioner Rebecca Clark, who is tireless in promoting our area as a place to shoot at a time when there is a begemot competition from other southern locations.”

Looking forward, Clark repeats his mission. “To build a thriving film community, you need a strong base from the team of qualified technicians and the basis of the makers of films engaged to live and work here. Local films in this region are incredibly talented, stubborn and hardworking. Many, if not all, juggle jobs full -time while pursuing their passion for making films in their spare time. Their dedication to create a local level of my own passion for the film industry as a whole and its positive impact on our community and economy. With one of the best movie creation schools in the country (UNCSA Film School), my goal is to create enough opportunities for graduates to stay in Winston-Salem, which makes him an attractive place for them to build their career in the movie S Last year, I had a lot of conversations with both local and government directors who expressed great interest in making feature films here this year. “

“I can see a future in which by the end of the decade, Winston-Salem is a background for many more productions and builds a stable and solid shooting infrastructure,” Fox said. “But it’s not as simple as you get a big studio movie here. We do not currently have the infrastructure for this, but if we can get a few smaller indi-game films to make Winston-Salem their background, some of them will give us the building elements to welcome another major film and thus , New Dawn for the City of Arts. “

The official cinema website on the market is also the official website for the Piedmont Triad Movie Commission is