Main Street Motion Media is a film and media arts non-profit that programs and exhibits independent films and digital media in historic performing arts centers and museums across the US and Canada. In combination with an acclaimed year-round film exhibition program we provide digital storytelling workshops to non-filmmakers that teach your community how films are developed and produced - and more urgently provide them with the technology and writing tools they need tell their own stories in the complex digital world.

There is no single art event that draws audiences in as great a number or as frequently as independent films, documentaries and related festivals. Film and digital media arts is an art form that has no doubt changed your community. That's because unlike other art forms, film is for everyone. It is as an instrument of expression, education and empowerment. It provides the means to an expanded understanding of the world and our place in it.

We at Main Street Motion Media observed that it has become more and more challenging to take on this responsibility as a standalone venue. Admissions rarely if ever cover the costs of the infrastructure necessary to run a viable and comprehensive film arts program. Besides, when has attendance alone ever dictated the value of art, regardless of the form it takes?

Kathleen Kamping, Founder and President of Main Street Motion Media believes film is art. Curators exhibit work in their museums, often to small audiences - the success of a work should only by exception be summed up by box office, alone.