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As arthouse cinema The Projector celebrates its eighth month in business, it looks to be in the pink of health. It screens a diverse range of movies, from the edgy and abstract to the fun and trashy.

It has hosted film festivals, corporate and private events and has a growing presence on social media.

Fans hail it as the epitome of an indie arts space because it combines a handmade, mom-and-pop feel with a sophisticated sense of curation in food, decor and film programming.

A handwritten sign saying “hold your horsies” is stuck on a door to hold back waiting ticket-holders and the ticket “booth” is a wobbly desk cobbled from scrap wood.

That is placed next to a bar-bistro serving draft beer, coldpressed juices and gluten-free pizza.

As if on cue, just after Life speaks to its three young managers, a tourist walks into the foyer to gawk and chat with someone in charge, because that is what you do at a small family attraction: You ask for a guided tour.

Manager and co-founder Sharon Tan, 30, is used to rubberneckers and hipsters coming by to chat, snap Instagram selfies of the retrochic foyer, bar area and circular staircase, then leave without spending a cent, but she says she does not mind. She enjoys spreading the message of alternative cinema.

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