Furthermore, showing on film builds a 'feel' for the society - it gets more people involved. We now have about twenty people involved in various capacities in running the society. This is what it needs to survive. Two people can't run a society. The move to film was also part of a long term strategy we have for moving up to 35mm so we can get every film ever released in cinemas, rather than having to rely on transfer to VHS or 16mm.
Videos are cheaper.
Not by much. I think that the quality of reel film isn't necessarily better than video. The sound of Jackie Brown was very loud, and seemed to 'rattle' at times, like when you have a radio up too loud. Perhaps sound quality would even be better on video, as there's a good system in 8 West 1.1. The sound quality of the Jackie Brown print was bad.