Screenings · Redford, MI
Film Screening Venue
in Redford, Michigan
Premieres, documentaries, student films and company reels. Bring ten minutes of your own footage and watch it in the room before you commit — the dialogue test is the one nobody thinks to run, and it is the one that matters.
Check Your Date
Plan a Screening
Send your date, expected audience, and what you are playing from. The events team will confirm what is open and go through projection, blackout, sound and whether there is a Q&A or reception after.
Inquiry sent
The PREVA events team has your details and will follow up about the date and the setup.
The Part Nobody Mentions
Showing a Film in Public Needs Rights
Owning the disc does not cover it. Paying for the stream does not cover it. Public performance rights are a separate thing, and most people organising a first screening have never been told — usually because the venue did not want to bring it up.
Your Own Work
Nothing to clear
- Your documentary, short or feature
- A wedding or family film
- A company video, showreel or portfolio
- A student or thesis project
- Most screenings booked here are exactly this
Somebody Else's Film
You arrange the licence
- Studio and distributed films need clearing
- In the US that is usually the studio, or a body such as Swank or MPLC
- It is normally quick and not always expensive
- Sort it before you announce anything
Charging Admission
Removes any grey area
- Tickets make a screening unambiguously public
- The licence has to be in place first
- Applies even for a charity or fundraising screening
- Ask before tickets go on sale, not after
This is a plain-language summary and not legal advice. PREVA cannot obtain or verify rights on your behalf, and the events team will ask what arrangement you have made before a public screening is confirmed.
Why Test First
A Room Tuned for Music Eats Dialogue
This is the way screenings in venues most often go wrong, and almost nobody sees it coming. A system set up for a DJ is set up for bass. Run a film through it and the audience hears the score beautifully and cannot follow a word of the conversation.
Bring Ten Minutes
Your own footage, in the room, before you commit. Not a trailer — a quiet dialogue scene, which is the part that fails.
Sound Set for Speech
If it needs adjusting for your film, that is a conversation to have in advance rather than a discovery during the first act.
How Dark It Goes
Ambient light washes out a graded image before it touches anything else. Blackout is confirmed against your film, not described in general.
What It Plugs Into
Laptop, drive, disc or DCP — tell the events team what you are bringing and the connection is confirmed rather than improvised on the night.
The Room
Before, During and After
Seated for the Film
Everyone facing one way, with sightlines checked against your audience size rather than assumed from a floor plan.
The Screen
Size, position and what your source connects to are confirmed with the events team for your booking. Come and see it with your own footage on it.
After the Credits
A Q&A with microphones, or the floor reset for a reception with catering. For most filmmakers this half is where the useful conversations happen.
Simple & Clear
How Booking Works
Send the Details
Date, audience, what you are playing from, and whose film it is.
Test It in the Room
Bring ten minutes of your own footage and watch it with the lights down. Decide for yourself.
Sort the Rights
If it is not your film, arrange the licence now rather than the week of. Nothing is announced before that.
Plan the Night
Seating, blackout, sound, the Q&A, and the reception afterward. Then the date is yours.
Questions
Before You Book
Bring a Hard Drive
Watch Your Own Film in the Room First
Ten minutes with the lights down tells you more than any page can. Send your date and the events team will set it up.
