A second outdoor movie is being planned for Roxburgh on Saturday - one month after the first one.

Last month the Roxburgh Entertainment Centre committee made national news with its outdoor screening of the movie Tinā, which attracted 200 people.

Committee chair Norm Dalley, who is also the Teviot Valley Community Board chair, said based on the first movie’s success, they have decided to hold another one.

But the offer of the free feature movie ‘Green Angels’ by Auckland-based film maker Peter Webster had not yet been decided on.

Webster heard about the Waitangi Day fire that destroyed the building, and the first fundraising outdoor screening on the television news, and contacted the committee.

“We could take it up at some stage. It’s quite a big call doing something like this and getting everything organised and set up,” Norman said.

Meanwhile, the Central Otago District Council was currently preparing a paper on the methodology for how it went about the cinema rebuild.

The next TVCB meeting was on May 1 where it was expected an update would be provided. A community meeting to form a stakeholder group to move the project forward was the next step.

A presentation to the board last month outlined the next steps for the building that was demolished after the fire.

The historic building was opened in 1875 and divested to the council in 1918. The site had been cleared and was free of asbestos.

Because it was an historic site, the council was liaising with Heritage New Zealand for archeological authority to continue site works. That report would take 40 days.

The building was insured for $6.4million and the council would go out to market with potential suppliers for ideas on a new community space and theatre.

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