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Meet the Meryl Streep of cats

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Quarantine Cat Film Festival, a celebration of more than 130 short feline films combined into a 75-minute feature. Brian Mendelssohn, founder of Row House Cinema in Pittsburgh, devised the fest as a way to bolster the hard-hit theater business.“Theaters shut down as a result of the pandemic, and we lost not just the financial capabilities to survive, but the engagement in the community that we had with our audience,” Mendelssohn tells The Post.Thankfully, his wife figured out that desperate times call fur desperate measures.“My wife was, like, ‘Just have everyone film their cats, and they can send them to you and you can make a movie,’ ” he says. “And I was, like, ‘OK.

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