Over the last two months , more than 1100 citizenry all over the reality have captured their cat ’ best moments on television and posit them to Pittsburgh ’s Row House Cinema for a chance to be have in the “ Quarantine Cat Film Festival”—a 70 - minute compiling film beam virtually on Friday , June 19 .
“ The reception has been better than we could have ever hoped and we have so much great content to make with , ” Brian Mendelssohn , Row House Cinema owner ( and director of the film ) said in a press freeing [ PDF ] . “ It ’s run to be a really fun feature with hilarious and adventurous cats and , of course , some adorable kittens too . ”
Thecoronaviruspandemic has definitely given the great unwashed much more time to witness their cats’craziest behavior ; in fact , Mendelssohn ’s wife came up with the estimation for the festival while hang out with the couple ’s twocats , Oliver and Isabella , during quarantine .
In plus to render witness with an eventide oftop - notch entertainment , the fete is also a way to tolerate independent theaters forced to shut their doors during the pandemic . Half of all tag sales will go toward Row House Cinema , and the other half will be separate among 60 modest indie theaters across the U.S. and Canada . When you buy your ticket , you may even choose which of those theater of operations you ’d like your money to go to .
“ We need it to be a path to help keep not just our dramatic art afloat , but to also keep sovereign cinemas across the body politic alive , ” said Mendelssohn . “ theatre like ours subsist as sentence capsules that infix new audiences to some of history ’s best flick and attend to as venues for significant new button that are n’t mainstream . ”
Tickets are $ 12 each , and you may pre - order yourshere .
