Palma.The 1'800 people who signed up to the campaign to save the Renoir cinema in Palma from financial ruin gathered yesterday at the s'Escorxador to celebrate its reopening scheduled for the weekend of Sant Joan, the 23rd and 24th June.
Today, the Xarxa Cinema Association is due to be officially established as a business organisation and members will decide tomorrow if the Renoir will be renamed and what entrance charges will be. There are apparently three new names being tabled: sa Filmoteca, 9 Renoir and Cinema Paradis.
The Association will have to bear in mind that the running costs of the Renoir reach 15'000 euros a month (10'000 for maintenance and 5'000 for personnel.) The news was given yesterday by Pedro Barbadillo who is the Director of the Majorca Film Commission and one of the leading figures in the Salvem els Renoir citizens' lobby which originally conceived rescuing the cinema from closure.
Barbadillo said that today a bank account is being set up so that supporters can pay in money to keep the cinema going. He explained that the objectives of the newly managed cinema include attracting customers who might otherwise just download films from the internet and establishing a film archive so that exchange of images and soundtracks can be carried out with other cinema libraries at a national and international level.
He highlighted the fact that of the 1'800 members of the Association, 400 are British. There are also German and Russian members. These members suggested that films in original languages could be lent to the cinema for screening to attract foreign custom from around the island. Initially after its reopening, the cinema will only be open from Friday to Monday, but every effort will be made to keep all the staff employed, said Barbadillo.
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