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Vidiots Foundation is excited to announce their November programming highlights below. A one-of-a-kind hub for film lovers, filmmakers, and everyone curious about cinema, Vidiots was opened in Santa Monica as an alternative video store in 1985. Vidiots is dedicated to inspiring human interaction around film through preserving, growing, and providing access to our diverse physical media collection, showcasing the work of emerging, master, and underrepresented artists, and producing unique and affordable film events and vital education programs. In June 2023, Vidiots re-opened at the historic Eagle Theatre in Northeast L.A.

November 2024

• Saturday, November 2 - In celebration of Día de los Muertos, a full day of film programs (Coco, Macario, Beetlejuice, Ghost) will include free to the community festivities throughout the day, accompanied by food and beverage specials at the theater honoring loved ones that have passed. Drop in for a drink or stay for a movie!
• Thursday, November 7 - Love & Basketball - pre-screening conversation with writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood, editor Terilyn A. Shropshire, ACE in person - collaboration with American Cinema Editors
• Friday, November 8 - Making Mr. Right with Susan Seidelman and Ann Magnuson
• Sunday, November 10 - 11th anniversary screening of In a World… with Lake Bell and special guests
• Wednesday, November 13 - Newly restored documentary Konkombe: The Nigerian Pop Music Scene, featuring the Lijadu Sisters, will have its West Coast premiere at Vidiots accompanied by special guests, including Money Mark.

December 2024 (Sneak Preview)

• December festivities are starting early at Vidiots! Sunday, December 1 - The Wind Rises, Titanic on 35mm
• Please keep an eye out for exciting holiday festivities that will include something for everyone: members, all ages, and the community

Vidiots operates seven-days-a-week, serving thousands of audience members and devoted video store customers, and hosts special guests and artists year-round. At Vidiots and the Eagle Theatre, physical media and the theatrical experience are alive and well!

Come Sit With Us! - Microcinema Theatre Update! Vidiots is proud to announce updates and upgrades to the micro theatre featuring new comfy and clean movie theater chairs (with super cool armrests), so now lucky us, and lucky YOU, we get to fill them up with movie-lovers! Support Vidiots and grace a seat at the Microcinema Theatre with your name, or dedicate to a movie-loving friend or family member! Your support of our Come Sit With Us! Campaign directly contributes to running our new home at the beautiful and historic Eagle Theatre. Get yours while you still can! Personalize a so-very-Vidiots plaque with a name or a special message, for the lifetime of the chair!

Donation amount: $600/seat | Limited available seats remaining. Like other donations to Vidiots, yours is tax deductible as allowed by law, save your receipt for tax season! Claim your seat HERE.

With almost-11,000 square feet of entertainment, social, and educational space, Vidiots is now open seven-days-a-week, offering a full calendar of screenings and special programs, the full video store with DVD and BluRay rentals, concessions, and a light menu with beer and wine. The Eagle Theatre, with 271 seats, 35mm  and DCP projection, and state-of-the-art sound, provides flexibility for a variety of eclectic events, signature series, and tastemaker screenings. A second, smaller, flexible community and event space, the MUBI Microcinema, with DCP projection and state-of-the-art sound, is ideal for intimate screenings, education programs, workshops, community events, and receptions.

A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, Vidiots is fueled, funded, and entirely made possible by an expansive family of donors, Members, and supporters who have generously contributed to renovate the almost 100-year-old Eagle Theatre, relaunch Vidiots, and create one of the most vibrant community film spaces in the world. Vidiots Founding Members, donors who support at $5,000 and above, are the lifeblood of Vidiots. Founding Members include Miguel Arteta, Katie Aselton + Mark Duplass, Ike Barinholtz, Lake Bell, Jess Wu Calder + Keith Calder, Lily Collins + Charlie McDowell, Mackenzie Davis, Michael De Luca, Jay Duplass, Mary Elizabeth Ellis + Charlie Day, Carlos López Estrada, Mike Flanagan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Liz Hannah, Jerrika Hinton, Rian Johnson + Karina Longworth, Nate Moore, Phil Lord, Max Minghella, Ify Nwadiwe, Patton Oswalt, Amy Pascal, Aubrey Plaza, Paul Scheer + June Diane Raphael, Kelly Marie Tran, Sharon Van Etten, Samara Weaving + James Warden, Jessica Williams, Alex Winter, Elijah Wood + Mette-Marie Kongsved.

Our generous foundation supporters are Golden Globe Foundation, National Association of Theatre Owners California/Nevada, The Perenchio Foundation, and The Satterberg Foundation.

Our corporate supporters include many of the most innovative and community-oriented companies in Los Angeles and beyond, they include Corporate Founding Members A24, Abramorama, Alamo Drafthouse, All Facts, Buddha Jones, Cinetic Media, Criterion Collection, Duplass Brothers Productions, Focus Features, Facet, Final Draft, GKIDS, Harvest, IFC Films and Shudder, Indiewire, KCRW, Kindman & Co., Letterboxd, Level Forward, LGNA Law Firm, Lionsgate, Magnolia Pictures, Monkeypaw Productions, MUBI, Oscilloscope Laboratories, Paramount Pictures, Pascal Pictures, Pipeline Media Group, Shout! Factory, Sony Pictures, SuperBloom House, UTA, Utopia Media, Vinegar Syndrome, Ways & Means, Writers Guild of America West, WME, and ZEISS.

In-kind donors include Dunn-Edwards Paints, Fever Content, Fireclay Tile, Gumball Poodle, QSC, Stone Source, and Thunderwing.

Community partners include The Black List, The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Born X Raised, A Bunch of Savages, The Cinegogue, Cinema Eye Honors, Oxy Arts and Occidental Media Arts + Culture Department, Seed + Spark, Sundance Institute, Synth History, Transgender Film Center, UCLA Film + Television Archive, and Women in Film, among many.

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