Public Database of Movie Theaters
Here is the plan, DIY filmmakers unite!
I was poking around tonight searching del.icio.us and I discovered a really cool site called editgrid.com that lets you post a public database any visitor can add to and edit. So I’ve just posted over 600 movie theaters to a public database.
What we want to offer other DIY filmmakers is the ability to use this database in anyway that is helpful to you and what we ask is that people begin to fill in the missing fields. For example, we don’t know how many of these 600 theaters have the ability to project digitally. For the 6 theaters our film is playing, we’ve filled in the data we know, but if you run a film festival or have distributed your film to any of these theaters, please fill in the fields you know and slowly but surely we’ll build a Digital Cinema Network.
So here is the link to the theater database. Just go there and browse the database just like you would in excel. If you see anything you can add to, just type in the missing information. Then hit “done” and the changes will be saved. Thats it, no user name or password or anything. Also if you are going to be adding a lot of data, you can use the “save as” options to make a copy as an excel file that you can more easily edit and then choose “upload new version” to replace the old database with the new one. Try not to wait too long between when you download and when you upload since you could over write data another user is entering. But 30 minutes to an hour should be safe.
If this doesn’t sound possible or sounds far fetch, just look at wikipedia.org. It’s a website in which an encyclopedia was created about everything you can think of completely by users who go on the site and wrote about what they were experts on. So collectively adding just a tiny bit of information you have can really add up and eventually having a very solid database that could be extremely useful to DIY filmmakers who want to distribute their films to theaters. And all the while, you can be using the database as we are already.
*Firefox web browser recommended.
*UPDATE: The public database sometimes gets deleted by weird people. So if that is empty for some reason, you can download the excel spread sheet:
download .xls spread sheet of movie theaters in US
