It was opened by Queen Elizabeth and has hosted world famous movie directors, but soon the big screen in Adelaide's Mercury cinema may go dark.
The self-described home of independent cinema has simply run out of money and there is little will to fund its ongoing operations from public coffers.
"I mean what we're talking about is a death by a thousand cuts situation," admitted Mercury CX chief executive Karena Slaninka.
The downhill slide began in 2015 when the then federal government cut funding to cinema organisations, which have training and development programs among their offerings.
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