The board of directors at Dalston’s much-loved Rio Cinema have stressed that “no plan or discussion or intention” exists to sell it off to a commercial operator.
The Save Our Rio campaign, which has launched a petition signed by almost 6,000 people at time of writing, have accused the cinema’s board of using the pandemic crisis as a smokescreen to reinvent it as a luxury boutique venue and are calling on Rio members to force the resignations of its current directors.