No.6 Cinema first opened in 2001 inside Boathouse 6, a Grade II listed shed built in 1846 at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, before closing in 2011 when its owners could not secure its future. A group of volunteers led by John Holland took it over the same year, reconstituting it as a not-for-profit and reopening the 275-seat auditorium with one of the biggest screens on the south coast. While Boathouse 6 undergoes refurbishment, screenings are running from a temporary home in the Eldon Building at the University of Portsmouth. The programme mixes arthouse titles, documentaries and classics with mainstream releases and screenings of work by the university's own film students. It is run today by Independent Cinema Portsmouth Ltd, staffed largely by the volunteers who saved it.
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