BRINGING MOVIES BACK TO MAPLEWOOD
Welcome to the Maplewood Film Society!
We are a community of film-lovers who believe the best way to see a movie is with others on big a screen.
Support Us
The Maplewood Film Society is creating unforgettable cinema events that bring our community together to celebrate movies, conversation, and the arts. We are also organizing our community to advocate for an independent non-profit theater and community space on the site of our historic movie theater. Your donation helps preserve Maplewood’s vibrant cultural character, now and forever!
The Maplewood Film Society is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and your donation is tax deductible.
The Maplewood Film Society is proud to partner with the Maplewood Library for this special event. As part of the 2026 Maplewood Ideas Festival, we will be showing an exclusive Maplewood screening of the award-winning documentary, The Librarians. The film will be followed by a discussion about the film and the wave of alarming book bannings sweeping our nation, featuring librarian Martha Hickson and a local author.
Film begins promptly at 7pm
Friday, March 27th 7 PM @ Maplewood Library
THE LIBRARIANS
On the frontline of America’s war on books
Our Mission
WE HAVE TWO GOALS:
IMMEDIATE: Creating one-of-kind cinematic events that bring our community together to celebrate movies, conversation and the arts.
LONGTERM: Working to develop an independent, non-profit cinema on the site of our historic movie theater on Maplewood Avenue.
Recent News & Events
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Recent News & Events *
Movies are best in a theater, but until ours is open we are showing movies whenever and where-ever we can. Reach out if you’d like to collaborate on a cinematic event here in Maplewood.
It’s not often you leave a vampire movie feeling smarter but that’s exactly what happened at the “Sinners and Its Wild Ride through Black History.” Over 300 people attended.
More than 220 guests filed into the Woodland for the sold-out screening of Lynch’s film, Wild at Heart, on a big screen.
Hear MFS founders Angela Matusik and Lisa Cohen talk about why movie theaters are crucial to the culture of small towns on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show
Maplewood Film Society founders Angela Matusik and Lisa Cohen talk about saving the theater and the indie film biz on the Lee and Ian show!
“Movie houses always have — a safe center for a small town’s downtown, a comfortable haven for people to come together. A place where, if you really listen, you can hear a community’s beating heart.” — Stephen Witty, NJARTS
About the Maplewood Film Society
It all began with a conversation among friends, bonding over how much we miss having a movie theater in our town.
We quickly found out we were not alone in this sense of loss, and pulled together an incredible community of like-minded movie lovers in the SoMA region.
Because movies are in Maplewood’s DNA, and have been a part of our history for over 92 years.