Central Cinema will show two documentaries by Planned Parenthood on Sunday, Nov. 12 at 3:30 p.m. The theater will screen the double feature of “Walking the Line: A Tennessee Pilgrimage
Local movie theater Central Cinema plans to reopen its screening room to audiences starting on April 1 as COVID-19 vaccines come out.
Central Cinema, 1205 N. Central St., first opened in 2018. It started as a result of the Knoxville Horror Film Festival and opened after a successful GoFundMe campaign. They show all kinds of movies, including independent, art house, foreign and popular films. They had to close during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The owners of Central Cinema, general manager Nick Huinker, programming director William Mahaffey and operations manager Logan Myers spoke about the theaterâs planned reopening.
âWeâd been actively talking about reopening sometime in the spring, and the speed of the vaccine rollout put a little wind in our sails,â Mahaffey said. âPeople are ready to come back to the movies, and weâre ready to have them back!â