The Loft Cinema

[3][4] The theatre, originally named The Loft, opened as an art house in 1965 at the northeast corner of East Sixth Street and North Fremont Avenue.

New management in 1972 renamed the space The New Loft Cinema, and low-budget independent and foreign films were screened.

The New Loft moved to its current location at 3233 East Speedway Boulevard in 1992, when the University of Arizona purchased the building.

[10] The Loft Cinema was a participant in Sundance Film Festival USA from 2012 until the program’s end in 2014, bringing world premieres and guests such as Oscar winner Brie Larson.

[11] In 2015, The Loft Cinema was recognized as a Sundance Institute Art House Project theater, a collaboration between Art House Convergence and Sundance Institute promoting “theaters in North America that embody a benchmark of excellence in programming, community involvement and operations”.