We encourage you to write to the current Cinema Arts Centre board of directors and your Council Members. We hope you will take time to compose your own heartfelt message to the board with what the Cinema Arts Centre means to you and how Dylan’s firing affects your feelings about the institution. We encourage you to include the list of demands as well. And if you prefer, we have provided here a sample email that you can copy and paste and then edit if you wish. Below is a list of the email addresses that can also be easily copied or clicked to write directly to that individual.

In addition, please download and share these fliers with your community.

Sample Email Draft:

To Whom it May Concern:

I believe one of Long Island’s most important and beloved cultural institutions has been thrown into turmoil by a series of reckless decisions from its current leadership of the Cinema Arts Centre, culminating in the firing of longtime Co-Director Dylan Skolnick.

Dylan has devoted his entire adult life to the Cinema Arts Centre and has been instrumental in building it into the internationally respected cultural institution it is today. His extraordinary relationships with filmmakers, distributors, artists, critics, cultural leaders, and the Long Island community were built over decades. Those relationships, his institutional knowledge, and his commitment to independent cinema are not interchangeable assets that a new board can simply replace.

It is especially disturbing to see his dismissal followed by vague public allegations that have damaged the reputation of someone who has given decades of his life to this institution.

I have lost confidence in the current leadership and am joining the call for:

• Dylan Skolnick to be immediately reinstated as Co-Director.
• Co-Directors Michael Kornfeld and Kelsie Greene to resign.
• Board Chair Matthew Daidola and the current CAC Board members to resign.

Under NYS non-profit law, the board members owe a Duty of Care and Duty of Loyalty to the Cinema Arts Centre. They have breached these responsibilities through their actions which were reckless, defamatory, and arrogant, thus causing financial and reputational harm to the Cinema. They have eroded community trust and been non-responsive to the Cinema's membership.

The Cinema Arts Centre does not belong to a handful of board members. It has been built and sustained over more than fifty years by its members, donors, filmmakers, artists, volunteers, audiences, and the larger community.

We will not stand quietly by while that legacy is dismantled.

Sincerely,
[NAME]
[TOWN / CONNECTION TO THE CAC]