WILMINGTON — The Wilmington International Film Festival will make its debut October 9–12, 2025, bringing four days of global cinema, arts, and community events to the city — including a new scholarship program awarding a full four-year Wilmington University scholarship to a local high school filmmaker. The four-day festival will take place across multiple venues—including Theatre N @ Nemours, The …
Town Square LIVE Weekly Review – Feb. 23, 2023
Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Community DoMore24: Your chance to help nonprofits you like Screening Room movie theater opens in downtown Wilmington New group wants to preserve Brandywine Hundred history Sussex community event hopes to pack, donate 150,000 meals Business UD alumna jumped into ‘Shark Tank;’ swam away with deal Food …
Screening Room movie theater opens in downtown Wilmington
A new art house movie theater opened Friday, drawing 100 patrons to see Oscar-nominated documentaries, animated and live-action shorts. The Screening Room at 1313 is starting business by showing the documentaries, animated shorts and live action shorts nominated for a 2023 Oscar. Co-owners Beverly Zimmermann and Bob Weir have worked together before and had been searching for a new theater …
Chancery Market to open courtyard; new movie theater moves in
Two more big changes are coming to the downtown Wilmington space formerly known as the Hercules Building. The Chancery Market Food Hall & Bar will open its 10,000-square-foot garden plaza in May. An independent movie theater — The Screening Room at 1313 — will open this month, showing first-run movies, starting with compilations of the short films nominated for Oscars. …