What is Connect the Docs?

This post published on March 1, 2015

Connect the Docs is an innovative multi-city hybrid cinema distribution format, combining the best of both live and online engagement to create a dynamic form […]

Making Waves! OPEN CINEMA Season 11 Review

This post published on June 19, 2014

It’s been a big year for OPEN CINEMA! This month, it’s been exactly a year since OPEN CINEMA founder and director Mandy Leith set off […]

Connecting the Docs: Live Blogging via Facebook

This post published on April 17, 2014

The tweetchat portion of our OPEN CINEMA events has been humming along nicely since 2012, gaining a progressively wider reach with each documentary, reaching up […]

What is Connecting the Docs? Building Bridges and Empowering Communities.

This post published on April 16, 2014

Each event is a whole new ball game for the OPEN CINEMA social engagement team. Every month we immerse ourselves in a different documentary’s world […]

Connecting the Docs: Community Engagement in the Digital Age

This post published on April 12, 2014

Marylou Wakefield’s OPEN CINEMA story. Community engagement is the holy grail of communications in the digital age. For those of us who work in the […]

A Cinematic Hybrid Event: Occupy Love, Occupy Twitter

This post published on December 13, 2012

At last week’s Victoria premiere of OCCUPY LOVE, we took our innovative hybrid event model to town! Not only did the upbeat standing-room only crowd […]

OPEN CINEMA goes Virtual in the name of all things Natural

This post published on November 9, 2012

It’s ironic that OPEN CINEMA’s first successful Twitterchat was on the topic of Nature Deficit Disorder, in collaboration with Habitat Acquisition Trust. But then again, […]

OPEN CINEMA Season 10 Media coverage

This post published on September 27, 2012

As we dot the last t’s and cross the final i’s in readiness for Wednesday’s Season 10 launch, we’re thrilled to be receiving some awesome […]