Our mission is to use film to foster understanding and appreciation of the diversity of the human experience, and create community among the viewers in the restored historic Circle Cinema.

The Circle Cinema Foundation works to fulfill this mission with several programs:

Films open to the public include:
• Current documentaries, independent and foreign films
• Film premieres of locally produced and directed films
• Film festivals
• Films co-sponsored by Tulsa non-profit organizations for their audiences
• Films created by filmmaking classes – high school and college
• Events which include film, speakers, and audience involvement

Circle Cinema and Tulsa Public Schools participates together in Journeys in Film, founded in 2003 to promote international education, cultural understanding, diversity learning, media literacy and civic engagement among middle-school students. The program combines the viewing of foreign language films with innovative lesson plans and facilitated, interactive discussion that creates an immersive, high-impact experience for students.

The Tulsa project includes 18 teachers in 8 schools with at total of 1,800 students participating. Students see the films THE CUP (Tibet/Bhutan), THE WAY HOME (Korea), CHILDREN OF HEAVEN (Iran), and WHALE RIDER (New Zealand).
To find out more about Journeys In Film, visit Journeys in Film

• The Circle Cinema Foundation hosts free screenings of films of special interest for school groups.

• The University of Tulsa Film Studies program students and faculty often take advantage of the screening facilities in the Circle 2 and the Quad.

• The Circle facilities are available for rental by outside organizations and individuals for film screenings fundraising events, board meetings, parties and other events.

• The Circle 2 hosts the Oklahoma Movie Makers who meet every Thursday and utilize screening facilities in the Quad.

• The Circle 2 hosts the meetings of the Alliance Francaise de Tulsa and other groups appreciating foreign films who meet monthly and utilize screening facilities in the gallery.

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