Reel South Cinema
Reel South Cinema works to remove barriers between Southern people and cinema. Helping audiences find and experience more films to helping filmmakers find the resources and support they need to get their work onto a screen.
We're building that work here in Huntsville and North Alabama while connecting with filmmakers, audiences, organizations, and resources throughout the South.
Help us build what comes next.
Your support helps Reel South Cinema grow the work we're already doing while giving us room to respond to the gaps we're finding along the way!
Donations can help us bring films to local audiences, keep the Reel South Film Guide and access resources growing, support Hauntsville Film Fest and community programming, work directly with filmmakers, develop educational resources, and begin building new ways to make cinema more accessible for audiences and filmmakers.
Some of what comes next is still taking shape. That's intentional. We want to listen first, learn where the barriers actually are, work with people who are already doing good work, and build where something is genuinely missing.
Every contribution gives us a little more room to do that.
Donate through Zeffy ↗Reel South Cinema is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Reel South isn't meant to be built by one person or one organization. Sometimes the thing somebody needs already exists—they just need to know where to find it.
If you have a resource, skill, connection, idea, or a little time to give, that can be part of this work too.
Know about a filmmaker resource we should know about? A grant? Equipment access? An affordable venue? An accessibility resource? A great local organization? Someone who knows how to solve a problem we've been trying to solve?
Tell us.
We don't need to own every resource. We want to make good ones easier to find!
Share a resource / Contact usFilmmakers, theaters, festivals, libraries, schools, artists, educators, disability organizations, community groups, local businesses...we want to know our neighbors.
If your work overlaps with ours, or you have an idea for something we could do together, we'd love to hear it!
Visit our contact pageAs Reel South grows, so will the ways people can get involved.
That might mean helping with a screening, researching accessibility information, sharing professional skills, contributing to filmmaker resources, beta testing something we're building, or helping us reach people we haven't reached yet.
Join the email list ↗Follow along for screenings, Film Guide updates, new resources, opportunities to get involved, and whatever we're building next.
And if you know somebody who cares about movies, Southern storytellers, or making film culture a little easier to get into, send them our way!
There's more to see down South.
A person finds a movie they didn't know was playing. A filmmaker finds the editor they needed. Someone learns which theater has captions. A kid sees a kind of movie they've never encountered before. A stalled film gets one step closer to finished.
Reel South Cinema won't always be the destination, we just need to help build the bridge.
The point isn't for Reel South to get credit for every chain reaction. The point is to create more of them!