Secret Movie Club
A Los Angeles based movie theater by movie makers for movie lovers.
Secret Movie Club celebrates community through movie culture. We offer curated movie programming, exclusive streaming event parties, film festivals, movie premieres, director q&a’s, filmmaker workshops, open mic short nights & more. Located in downtown Los Angeles's exciting Arts District, our flagship theater serves as a creative community space for movie lovers & movie makers. We host pop-up events at iconic movie palaces and theaters across Los Angeles and San Diego, bringing our unique cinematic experiences to you. Be a part of the movement.
Upcoming Events
SMC Screenings
The SECRET MOVIE Club THEATER
1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021
Events/screenings/series (on 35mm film as often as we can) at our Secret Movie Club Theater headquarters in downtown Los Angeles’s Arts District. Movie screenings, streaming events, film festivals, premieres, movie culture parties, private rentals, filmmaker workshops, special movie community events, and more.
Secret Movie Club “Pop Ups”
Our bigger movie events often hosted at downtown Los Angeles’s historic movie palaces. Secret Movie Club Signature Events: These are our “special marquee” events of the year with filmmakers in person for Q&A’s, special film series of rare titles, and big movie community events/festivals/after parties etc.
Secret Movie Club Signature Events
These are our “special marquee” events of the year with filmmakers in person for Q&A’s, special film series of rare titles, and big movie community events/festivals/after parties etc.
Secret Movie Club, San Diego
Secret Movie Club brings the Secret Movie Club experience to San Diego.
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Podcasts
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SMC Pod #211: Movies & AI
The AI disruption for movies is here. Poor movies, battered on the choppy seas of digital, streaming, COVID, and now AI, have yet another challenge to contend with. But we've been here before with sound, color, television, home video. In fact, if anything, the history of movies and the history of technological innovation and disruption are forever intertwined. And movies, at least so far, have found a way to innovate and to endure. Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill takes a look at where AI is in 2026 and what that may mean for cinema, movie jobs, and the art form going forward.