We are honored and grateful to be able to present The FilmShift Festival at two Boston area performing arts landmarks.
Coolidge Corner Theater
The Coolidge Corner Theatre is New England’s most successful independent, not-for-profit cinema. Built as a church in 1906, it was redesigned as an Art Deco movie palace in 1933 and has never closed its doors to the public since then.
Located in the heart of Brookline, Massachusetts, it was the community’s first movie theater and now, a non-profit foundation since 1988. The Coolidge Corner Theater celebrates the experience of cinema by presenting the finest international, documentary, animated, and independent film selections and series.
The primary mission of the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation is “to entertain, enlighten, and engage — building community through film culture.”
For more information check out The Coolidge Corner Theater’s official site »
The Performing Arts Connection
The Performing Arts Connection has been training and coaching students of all ages for since 2000. They believe that any child who wants to pursue musical theater and drama should have a fun, safe, supportive, and exciting environment to train.
The Performing Arts Connection is led by Samantha Hammel, the founder of SAMM Entertainment and a true leader in coaching kids to performing success. Her students have appeared on Broadway; on the regional stages of North Shore Music Theatre and Trinity Repertory Company; in TV commercials, feature films, and modeling and print ads; and with community theaters all over the state. This is truly a testament to The Performing Arts Connection’s teaching styles, strategies, and the compassion they show for each and every one of their students, no matter what their performing goals may be.
The Performing Arts Connection also has a non-profit community theater group called the Metrowest Family Theater. MFT is one of the three local non-profit groups that the FilmShift Festival supports.
For more information check out The Performing Arts Connection’s official site »
Somerville Theater
Operated by F.E.I. Theatres, the Somerville Theatre continues to entertain locals with five screens of first run films and regular music and stage performances. It struggles to compete with the giant chain theaters and the local non-profit art-houses, remaining, with its sister theatre, the Capitol, among the last of the neighborhood theatres that aren’t a charity. It still offers an inexpensive ticket, lower food prices, fresher popcorn (with real butter if you want it), and a funky charm that bigger theaters cannot offer.
For more information check out The Somerville Theater’s official site »
