If you operate an independent cinema, art-house theater, repertory house, microcinema, university screening series, museum film program, or any other public-facing venue programming outside the wide-release multiplex slate, we want to list you in the ScreenTimes directory. There is no charge, no contract, and no preferred-placement tier.
What we ask for
To set up a listing we need a small amount of information about your venue. Most of it you can pull from your existing website or membership materials.
- The official name of the venue, exactly as you'd like it to appear.
- Street address, city, and state.
- Number of screens currently in operation.
- A short description (one to three sentences) of the venue's programming character — repertory weeks, foreign-language emphasis, documentary residency, festival partnerships, accessibility features, anything that distinguishes you.
- Public-facing website and any official social or ticketing links you would like surfaced.
- A general programming contact email so we can reach you for periodic schedule confirmations.
How showtimes get into the directory
For schedule data we accept three formats, in order of preference: a public ICS calendar feed of your weekly programming, an RSS or Atom feed from your existing site, or a weekly email roundup that we manually parse. Most independently operated venues already publish at least one of these for their own audience; we just need a pointer.
If none of those exist for your venue and you would like one set up, we can help. Get in touch and we will scope what is feasible.
Editorial controls
You retain final say over how your venue is described. Listings are reviewed by both a member of our editorial team and a representative from the venue before going live, and you can request changes at any time afterwards. We do not accept paid placement and we do not allow advertisers to influence the order of cinema listings on city pages. Reference editorial-control policies from peer cinema directories are a good benchmark if you want to compare standards.
What it gets you
The honest answer is: visibility to people who are specifically looking for independent cinema. ScreenTimes audiences are not coming to us for show times on a wide-release Marvel film. They are coming because they want to see Drive My Car in 35mm or because they are visiting a new city for the weekend and want to know which neighborhood has a real repertory house. That tends to be exactly the audience an indie cinema most wants to reach.
How to start
Send the venue information described above to our listings team. We aim to publish new listings within a week. If you'd like to chat through the directory before submitting, we are happy to set up a short call. Operator-facing resources from the Art House Convergence are useful adjacent reading for any independent venue.