Company Profile
Film Forum
Company Overview
Film Forum, a nonprofit cinema founded in 1970, started as an alternative screening space for independent films, with 50 folding chairs, one projector and a $19,000 annual budget. Today, Film Forum is a 4-screen cinema open 365 days a year, with approximately 200,000 annual admissions, 50 employees, 5200 members and a $6 million operating budget.
As a cinema of ideas, Film Forum is committed to presenting an international array of films that treat diverse social, political, historical and cultural realities. Unlike commercial cinemas that primarily “book” high-grossing, Hollywood films, Film Forum’s programs are thoughtfully curated, with attention to unique cinematic qualities, historical importance individually or within a genre and, particularly for documentaries, relevance to today’s world.