Movie Screenings
Hello everyone in this vastly-depleted community now that FB has taken over,
I'm part of an AR group that screens movies. We've been doing this for months now, and have seen The Witness in double feature with Vegan: A Life Connected; Behind the Mask, Lolita: Slave to Enterainment, Sharkwater, Dark Water Rising and last night Skin Trade. (Oh my lord, the last scene in that movie has been burned into my memory until the day I day).
We hang fliers, post screening dates and times in the local paper and low-power community radio station's website, and the venue also advertises for us. But we just don't seem to be getting the people. Dark Water Rising had the most people show up, probably because of the focus on cats and dogs, and the documentary showed rescue in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A couple of the movies had just three people or so, including me, watch. Mostly we keep getting the same old people who honestly don't need to see this stuff because we're already active on behalf of other animals (at least to some extent).
I'm wondering if anyone else has done similar and if you have any suggestions in how to increase turnout. We are hoping maybe to use an outside wall starting in the spring, something that people walking by may get sucked into seeing, but fall's here for certain and it would be too cold to do that (plus we have to figure out how to do that and find someone willing to loan us a wall free of charge).
Thoughts? Help? Because these documentaries need to be seen, but, I think, not necessarily by those who are the main audience. (We had one guy in last night who stayed for the whole movie, even though he thought it was about the human slave/sex trade. However, he took off before we could engage him in discussion.)
I'm part of an AR group that screens movies. We've been doing this for months now, and have seen The Witness in double feature with Vegan: A Life Connected; Behind the Mask, Lolita: Slave to Enterainment, Sharkwater, Dark Water Rising and last night Skin Trade. (Oh my lord, the last scene in that movie has been burned into my memory until the day I day).
We hang fliers, post screening dates and times in the local paper and low-power community radio station's website, and the venue also advertises for us. But we just don't seem to be getting the people. Dark Water Rising had the most people show up, probably because of the focus on cats and dogs, and the documentary showed rescue in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A couple of the movies had just three people or so, including me, watch. Mostly we keep getting the same old people who honestly don't need to see this stuff because we're already active on behalf of other animals (at least to some extent).
I'm wondering if anyone else has done similar and if you have any suggestions in how to increase turnout. We are hoping maybe to use an outside wall starting in the spring, something that people walking by may get sucked into seeing, but fall's here for certain and it would be too cold to do that (plus we have to figure out how to do that and find someone willing to loan us a wall free of charge).
Thoughts? Help? Because these documentaries need to be seen, but, I think, not necessarily by those who are the main audience. (We had one guy in last night who stayed for the whole movie, even though he thought it was about the human slave/sex trade. However, he took off before we could engage him in discussion.)