La Clef Cinema: Organizers Behind Historic Paris Venue Backed By Martin Scorsese & Quentin Tarantino Set New York City Screening And Fundraising Tour
deadline.comParis’ La Clef cinema is heading to New York. Organizers behind the popular venue, one of Paris’ most enduring rep houses, are heading to New York this week to host a series of film screenings at cinemas across the city to connect with fellow cinephiles and raise funds for their ongoing redevelopment project back in Paris.
La Clef has been officially shut since 2019. The cinema was saved from permanent closure last year after Cinéma Revival, a group of local volunteers and longtime patrons of the cinema, purchased the building, which had been put on the market by its previous owner.
The campaign to save La Clef was an almost five-year battle and began with a bold community occupation of the building, which grew into an international movement involving film industry figures, lawyers, activists, and government officials.
The group bought the building with €2 million raised through an online fundraising campaign. €400.000 was raised from 5000 individual donations with contributors including filmmakers and actors such as Wang Bing, Leos Carax, Céline Sciamma, Sophie Fillières, Agnès Jaoui, and Irène Jacob.
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