FINDING POPUP CINEMA JUST GOT EASY
Portal launches for London’s Popup cinemaLondon: Lights, camera, action! A new popup cinema website, designed to provide easy access to the best of London’s popup cinema events, has launched.The site, www.WeGotPopup.com, will finally offer a one-stop shop for all London’s Popup cinema needs. It will list a wide range of London’s freshest film experiences, from a seat on a 1930s riverboat down the Thames bound for an Elizabethan manor house screening, to getting lost in Camden’s Coram Secret Garden on the back of Falkor the Luckdragon.Producing these unique experiences for film lovers are… the popup film barons Pop Up Screens, The Nomad and Rooftop Film Club; alongside The Lucky Dog Picture House, The East Dulwich Tavern, Bloomsbury Lanes and Roadside Picnic whose events will all be listed on the site.The screenings can be cross-referenced by date, title and most importantly, distance from where you are currently sitting. (prepare to add at least 2 points to your 'cool ranking').WeGotPopup.com will be (ahem) “popping up” for a limited four-month window, arriving just in time to provide film fans with all the information and easy access to often elusive events. So log-on, explore, and click your way to a popup packed summer.The portal was the brainchild of ticketing experts WeGotTickets, who have ticketed weird and wonderful one-off events since 2000, offering tickets for the UK’s original popup supper clubs and cinema. WeGotTickets has ticketed over a thousand of these – from Films on Fridges, where a white goods wonderland took over a recycling-plant-turned-Olympic-Park, to a popup feast night at a hidden Cornwall beach hut. Not to mention screenings at abandoned petrol stations, under bridges, at lidos, and of course…on rooftops.Said Kate Pelen, Design and Communications Manager, The Nomad Cinema "There has been really healthy growth in popup cinema events over the past few years, with audiences increasingly on the look-out for a unique and memorable way to enjoy their favourite film, or discover something totally new in a different environment. “That's why WeGotPopup is such a great idea, allowing customers to search all the best pop-up providers for their favourite film or venue all in one place. We're sure this new venture will be a great success as the WeGotTickets team are a very determined and hard-working bunch of people with a great attitude and a reputation to match.''WeGotTickets keep tickets paperless, fees low and completely transparent – regularly working with and donating a percentage of their booking fees back to a variety of charities. About WeGotTicketsWeGotTickets is the UK’s leading paperless ticketing agency. Launched in 2002, WeGotTickets works with thousands of event organisers placing it in the top five ticket agencies in the UK.WeGotTickets has made it possible for organisers of events of all shapes and sizes to benefit from advance ticket sales, and now sells close to a million tickets a year; from popup cinema, art events and underground restaurants to traditional live music and comedy shows and festivals.Since its launch, WeGotTickets has consistently pushed for innovation, transparency and best practice across the ticketing industry, with many of the company’s ideas becoming standard industry practice.The company’s 10% maximum ticket commission rate has helped to lower fees across the business, whilst its pioneering paperless ticketing system has been a major factor in reducing the live music industry’s carbon footprint.Over the years WeGotTickets has been proud to work on a number of special campaigns with charities such as Oxfam, Macmillan, ActionAid and Warchild, and regularly donates a percentage of their booking fees back to these groups. In 2009 the company launched a unique feature allowing ticket buyers to quickly and easily make a donation to a featured charity whilst purchasing tickets, which has raised tens of thousands of pounds for those charities.WeGotTickets is now proud to be a full member of STAR (Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers) and is fully behind the organisation’s new fraud prevention kite mark.www.WeGotTickets.com.