The Columbus Black Theatre Festival runs through July 7th at the Columbus Performing Arts Center.
Besides being one of Little Art’s biggest fans, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Steve Bognar is an advocate for small independent theaters everywhere.YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio — When the Little Art Theatre set out to land a $100,000 grant to fund a stylish new marquee, with a nod to its century-long history, the cozy Ohio arthouse theater had some talented help.
It wasn’t lost on the documentarian that such communal experiences are becoming increasingly rare, as rising home and charter school “If there was one overall theme that emerged, or a kind of guiding idea that emerged, it was that a cinema, a small-town movie theater, is like a community hub,” Bognar said. “It’s where we come together to experience collectively, like a work of art or a community event or a local filmmaker showing their work.
“That collective experience of sitting in the dark and just kind of feeling, going through some story and feeling it together is beautiful," Bognar said. “We don’t do that enough now. We are so often isolated these days. We stare at our screens individually. We watch movies individually. It’s sad.”
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