The outlook is grim for the future of Screen on the Green. The primary sponsor of this event- HBO - has cancelled their support of the annual summer film fest, citiing financial reasons.
I have no doubt that putting this event on cost some cash - they have to reserve the space on the mall, provide advertising materials, buy redistribution rights to the films, and I'm guessing some sort of security/clean up costs. But this was also a tremendously popular event that drew a LARGE number of hill staffers and policy makers. Seems like if anything they should have taken some budget from their government affairs office and moved it to host the event - probably bought them way more goodwill in Congress than anything else they're doing...
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