Yelp Statement

In response to a Yelp review, Fairfax Cinema posted this letter on January 24, 2020.

Dear Jon,

We appreciate your earnestness in ensuring that Fairfax Cinema's environment is safe and committed to both our employees and our customers. We have no issue restating that Fairfax Cinema has zero ties to any of the abusers at Cinefamily.

When you first reached out, we were happy to bring greater transparency to our company and demonstrate our responsibility as a business. We understand the public's concerns about management and have spoken candidly with individuals who have reached out about our operations. However, it regrettably seems that you have your own personal agenda, one in which you feign journalistic integrity and warp the truth to fit your narrative. It is unfortunate that your diehard dedication to Cinefamily has caused your attempt at accountability to become so biased.

Most of your website's text about Fairfax Cinema is constructed from manipulated facts and is full of red herrings. Due to the lack of negative information about our business, it seems that you have now settled on demonizing the owners' entire family (the latest being an uncle who is unaffiliated with this business) and directly harassing our employees and collaborators. To what purpose does it serve by writing out the full names of our staff, other than to intimidate and defame? How would you feel if a stranger said they had access to your personal cell phone number (as you did, if you need a reminder of your journalistic tactics)?

After careful consideration, we decided to cease all staff interactions with you. We are absolutely unwilling to sacrifice the mental health and safety of our employees just to populate your blog with information. We are not Cinefamily, and we are sorry that you so desperately want us to be. Please redirect all this energy elsewhere -- Cinefamily is gone, and the film community is stronger for it.

Warmly,

Fairfax Cinema