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Former Cinefamily Executive Director Hadrian Belove is linked to the upcoming New York film festival New People’s Cinema Club, and to a newly-formed California nonprofit called Children's Cinema Resource. But why does it seem like everyone’s trying to hide these connections?
Read MoreAfter more than two years of planning, Dan and Sammy Harkham’s Fairfax Cinema opened its doors to the public on December 25, 2019. The new staff report having to address old business.
Read MoreAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Fairfax Cinema—the rebranded Cinefamily entity—will open next week with a 35mm run of “Uncut Gems,” the new Safdie Brothers movie starring Adam Sandler. Yet inaccuracies in THR reporting left readers scratching their heads, and roiling anger over the Cinefamily scandal spilled into social media and may have caused the filmmakers to rethink their plans.
Read MoreDan Harkham filed Cinefamily’s 2017 taxes. Most of the document is either missing or incoherent, but we try to make sense of the numbers.
Read MoreFancy new seating, fancy new lighting, and “a fall opening with much the same program as Cinefamily.” Now, about that Certificate of Occupancy…
Read MoreThis installment on the political life of the Harkhams (Silent Movie Theater / Cinefamily / Fairfax Cinema) will analyze the family’s donations to politicians and to political action committees (PACs).
Read MoreA disclosure from the Harkhams’ former lobbyist raises new questions about the viability of the project, and signals that the renovations and rebranding may not be on track.
Read MoreCinefamily / Fairfax’s Dan Harkham has brought a veteran lobbyist onto the team. Apex LA’s Margaret Taylor is expected to help the Harkhams secure a conditional use permit to allow beer and wine sales at the rebranded Fairfax Cinema at the Silent Movie Theater.
Read MoreIn late 2018 the Harkhams applied for a Certificate of Occupancy from the L.A. Department of Building and Safety for the Silent Movie Theater’s Fairfax Cinema (Cinefamily). As of this writing in early February 2019, the application is still pending. New documents indicate that plans for the venue may have changed yet again, possibly related to an alcohol licensing challenge with the state ABC.
Read MoreThe ABC’s License Query System indicates the Harkhams’ application for a license to sell alcohol at the Silent Movie Theater’s Fairfax Cinema has been placed on hold. Are they a “public nuisance?” Was Cinefamily?
Read MoreIn November 2017, months after closing their doors, Cinefamily was named as a defendant in yet another lawsuit. (Hadrian Belove was also named as a defendant.)
Read MoreCalifornia files a tax lien against Cinefamily and the Silent Movie Theater. Again. The Harkhams and Fairfax Cinema should probably deal with this sort of thing.
Read MoreIn which we get a look at some of the blueprints the Harkhams submitted for approval at the Silent Movie Theater’s Fairfax Cinema (rebrand of Cinefamily), following the #MeToo scandal.
Read MoreA Cinefamily-watcher and friend of this website sends in these pictures of the historic Silent Movie Theater being gutted as the Harkhams rebrand into Fairfax Cinema.
Read MoreRecent filings with the L.A. Department of Building and Safety indicate Cinefamily/Fairfax plans to begin renovations on the Silent Movie Theater. According to the city engineer overseeing the permit application, “they are doing some interior and exterior work to the existing theater,” including “proposing a small bar at the rear.”
Read MoreAccording to a new filing with the Los Angeles County Recorder's office, amidst all of the existing debt the Harkhams appear to have... taken on more debt!
The April 13, 2018 filing by Community Bank of Pasadena indicates a $250,000 promissory note secured by the Silent Movie Theater. Community Bank already holds a first mortgage in excess of one million dollars based on a 2015 refinancing of the property.
Read MoreWe wrote a report about Cinefamily, the board of directors, the Harkhams, Fairfax Cinema, the Silent Movie Theater, and lots more. We sent it off to people in charge at the Attorney General, Secretary of State, Franchise Tax Board, IRS, and District Attorney. They let us know they got it.
Read MoreCinefamily’s Erin Hensley confirms that Fairfax Cinema will be a for-profit business, that Dan Harkham is the sole owner, and that Fairfax plans to operate at the Silent Movie Theater showing the same mix of content as Cinefamily. But here’s why they don’t want you to call it a rebranding.
Read MoreBoth Cinefamily and Fairfax Cinema seem to be missing more legal deadlines with the potential to affect donors and staff . We take a look at what’s late, and at Dan Harkham and Erin Hensley’s track record with appropriate record-keeping.
Read MoreThat missing legal disclosure about Dan Harkham’s control over the Cinefamily board of directors? It may, in fact, be a true computer error— albeit one that deprived the L.A. film community of critical information.
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