Do you show movies in Canada?
Membership with NICE is open to Canadian independent cinemas, festivals and professional programmers offering curated film programs to public audiences.
Do you show movies in Canada?
Membership with NICE is open to Canadian independent cinemas, festivals and professional programmers offering curated film programs to public audiences.
New from NICE
Report: The State of Independent Film Exhibition in Canada
Get the numbers behind the crisis in independent film exhibition across Canada in this new report.
The promise of theatrical exhibition in Canada: New Telefilm report on Canadian Movie Consumption
The Network of Independent Canadian Exhibitors (NICE) is delighted that Telefilm is discovering, quantifying and evaluating feature film consumption across the country with the newly-released study Canadian Movie Consumption Exploring the Health of Feature Film in Canada.
Member of the Month: Sudbury Indie Cinema Co-op, Sudbury, ON
Initially formed as a community response to losing the last remaining movie theatre in Sudbury’s downtown core—Sudbury Indie Cinema Co-op is now celebrating its 10th anniversary!
Our members
Since 2018, independent film exhibitors across Canada have joined a central Google Group to share stories and resources. In the years since, NICE has grown into a national community of more than 100 independent film exhibitors, with membership stretching from Vancouver Island to PEI.
There is going to be a deep change in the cinema in our equipment, but there is also insecurity stemming from the changes in the distribution system and internet piracy. All things can change, but the values of cinema, the magic of narration, the poetry of the Seventh Art, is unalterable. Our century, despite the boom of the media, will be a century of loneliness. Only cinema can unite people.
Werner Herzog, 2009
Pictured on this page: Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, Toronto, ON. Photo credits: Gabriel Li; Dahlia Katz. Cinéma Moderne, Montreal, QC. Toronto Outdoor Picture Show, Toronto, ON. Photo credit: Nicola Betts. Film.Ca Cinemas, Oakville, ON.