The General Administration of Press and Publication aims to produce captions and audio description for 10 to 20 movies per year, accommodating China’s nearly 12 million vision impaired and 20 million hearing impaired citizens.
Wang Naikun, executive vice-president of China Disabled Persons' Federation, said, “Like everyone else, people with disabilities want to learn about the world through films.”
The five locations will commence closed captioned screenings only, with audio description added at a later date. The locations are:
Joining these two new locations, Event’s Marion MEGAPLEX in Adelaide will update from one existing open captioned screen to three screens showing both closed captions and audio description.
Event’s announcement also includes a number of existing closed captioned and audio described locations increasing their current level of access. From 1 December onwards, the following locations will move from 1 to 2 accessible screens:
Hoyts Cinemas is part of the Cinema Access Implementation Plan which works toward the instalment of audio description and closed captioning devices such as CaptiView in major cinema chains nationally.
