Cinema Paradiso – Community Theatre

“Cinema Paradiso – Cine Comunitario” is an open-air community theater project dating all the way back to 2011 with the dual mission of reclaiming abandoned spaces and connecting local communities to the world of film. After its three-year run in an empty lot on now world-famous Loiza Street in San Juan, it currently calls home two abandoned government buildings repurposed by separate non-profit organizations. In it’s new evolution after the island-wide destruction of hurricane María that still endures to this day, the goal is to make Cinema Paradiso mobile and bring this free community theatre offerings to Puerto Rico’s 78 municipalities and bring back life to desolate town plazas.