Oldest video rental shop in Spain starts campaign to avoid closure
Thursday, April 12, 2018 @ 12:36 PM
SPAIN'S oldest video rental store has launched a crowdfunding campaign to avoid having to close down.
Vídeo Instan, which opened on Barcelona's C/ Enric Granados in 1980, is seeking funds to enable it to turn into a meeting place for film buffs and silver-screen industry professionals.
The shop started its crowdfunding on the platform Ulule on Tuesday, and hopes to raise an initial €35,000 to renovate the premises, turning it into a café and cinema with seating for 32 – and maintaining the video rental side of the business.
So far, Vídeo Instan has been backed by big names in the industry – J. A. Bayona, Alain Hernández, Judith Colell, Leticia Dolera, and Spain's most famous off-the-wall cult director Pedro Almodóvar.
Anyone who supports the cause will be amply rewarded, Vídeo Instan says, with discounts on renting DVDs – and even VHS video tapes, where people still have the facilities to play them – as well as discounts on cinema tickets and prize draws where they could win entries to the Fotogramas de Plata ('Silver Photograms') Awards and the Gaudí Awards, Catalunya's answer to the Goyas or a regional version of the Oscars.
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