Cinelounge Tiburon plans to bring vertical movies to big screen
- Francisco Martinez
- 12 minutes ago
- 1 min read
Movies made for smartphones will fill a movie-theater screen in Tiburon next fall when Cinelounge hosts the inaugural Marin Vertical Film Festival.
Christian and Camilla Meoli, who own the downtown theater and live in town, have created the festival to showcase films shot in the vertical 9:16 aspect ratio designed for mobile devices. Submissions were set to open Nov. 4, after The Ark’s press time, via filmfreeway.com. They’ll close in June 2026, and the festival is scheduled for Oct. 1-5, 2026.
Christian Meoli says the vertical-film festival is the first of five or six the theater, at 40 Main St., hopes to host next year. He says his goal is to bring the event to theaters across Marin.
“It will be a film festival that really embraces all the towns in Marin and really showcases a tremendous amount of new and young filmmakers, which is the point,” he says.
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