Instead, in the wake of a scandal, the board of directors of the Cinefamily has decided to permanently shut down the organization and dissolve the board. The Cinefamily board retained Giles Miller, a principal at the firm of Lynx Insights and Investigations, to conduct an investigation into the allegations. The Silent Movie Theatre “will be closed and renovated by the landlord,” according to a statement from the Cinefamily board. The shutdown of a screening venue within the carefully calibrated ecology of the Los Angeles exhibition scene has already been felt as some programs have moved to other venues in the city. The French film series known as La Collectionneuse that screened at the Cinefamily has also moved east, relaunching at the Zebulon venue.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 15, 2017 00:56 UTC