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Rome's young cinema advocates open their very own movie theater

Rome (Italy), 4 jun (EFE).- (Imagen: Álvaro Padilla) It was almost 10 years ago that a group of youngsters occupied Rome´s Cinema America to save the movie theater from being destroyed and turned into apartment blocks. A decade later, that same group of youngsters are opening their very own cinema.FOOTAGE OF THE CINEMA IN ROMESOUNDBITES OF VALERIO CAROCCI, ORGANIZATION SPOKESMANTRANSLATION1. It is a conservative restoration project, the entire building maintains the historical and architectural peculiarity of the fascist era built in the Thirties, designed by Mussolini for the fascist regime. We will open to the public on September 30 and will have three hundred seats, and a new permanently open study room.2. We hope this will serve as an engine for people to return to theaters after the pandemic3. With Almodovar there were two very funny scenes; The first was, when the América cinema was occupied, that he entered the cinema, and there was only one boy, but he did not know anything about cinema, and he did not recognize him. And a few hours later the waiter at the bar told us, But have you seen that Almodovar has entered? And all ... Oh my God Almodovar has entered! And we all scolded the boy because he had not recognized Almodovar. And years later we wrote to him telling him this story, and he responded very affectionately.4. (About Nanni Moretti); We don't know if he's angry, we can't say this. We can only say, "Hello Nani, we have opened a cinema next to yours, and invent ways to collaborate, we have proposed to make available all our social networks, and our sites to promote their activity. Working together I think it gives us the possibility for everyone to be stronger. And that the "New Sacher" and the cinema "Troisi", which are 200m away, as they would be stronger together. Pedro answer us, Nani answer us.