Will Braden, creator of Henri, le Chat Noir, winner of “audience

choice” at #catvidfest 2013 / 2014, and curator of the 2015 festival

in attendance for all shows.

Preshow tunes from DJ Whiskers

For the 3rd year in a row, the Hollywood Theatre will present

#catvidfest, the Walker Art Center’s highly celebrated screening of

the best cat videos the internet has to offer. The first Internet Cat

Video Festival (#catvidfest) gathered over 10,000 people to the Walker

Art Center to participate in a social experiment, testing the

boundaries of online communities and crowd-sourced content. Emerging

from the Walker’s Open Field initiative the festival attracted

attention from local, national, and international audiences and press

and raised public debate around the role of museums in an internet

culture. #catvidfest is presented in partnership with the Hollywood

Theatre’s “Future So Bright” initiative.

FUTURE SO BRIGHT serves to explore how internet culture is helping to

inform new models for the presentation of cinema, encouraging

participatory experiences with the ultimate goal of expanding the

traditional film-going ritual, and facilitating the emergence of a

modern movie theater and cultural hub