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First Indie Exhibition Conference In Years Rolls Into Chicago, And It’s Packed

The Independent Exhibition Conference, or IND/EX, launches today at a pivotal moment for the theatrical business, especially art houses.

For 2024, the group partnered with the Film Festival Alliance to create a new, expanded confab called IND/EX — three days of networking, speakers and panels on operations, programming, education, development, distribution and community engagement, set at the Chicago Cultural Center and Gene Siskel Film Center. Reps from American Cinematheque in L.A. and Film at Lincoln Center in NYC are joined by theaters from around the country from Brooklyn, Billings and Boston to Detroit, Des Moines and Denver. “There are just a lot of labor issues that came out, in general, in society during the pandemic that are also very much present in our field, especially when you combine the nonprofits with the film industry.

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