The Access All Areas Film Festival, which showcases Australian feature and short films, tours across NSW with a gala performance on the International Day for People with a Disability. The three tour programs are highlighted below.
The Cinema Tour will visit Riverside Theatres at Parramatta and the Dendy Opera Quays, Sydney in early December.
Mark was intrinsic to the introduction of accessible cinema in independent cinemas nationally and paved the way for the introduction of audio described cinema across all cinema chains.
Mark was passionate about cinema and this showed through in his leadership of ICAA and in his negotiating skills to move accessible cinema forward in Australia.
He will be greatly missed.
Marcus Theatres runs 47 cinema complexes across the Midwest including Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio and Wisconsin. As part of its enhanced digital experience, Marcus Theatres is pleased that it will now offer closed captioning for Deaf and hearing impaired patrons through the CaptiView system.
The provision of CaptiView is one of a raft of changes involved in Marcus Theatres’ transition to digital cinema, which has been branded as the Marcus Digital Experience.
In reaction to a series of non-compliance with captioning regulations the station has set up a “visual’ captioning alert internally in its presentation centre to highlight any programs going to air without captions. In addition, the station is asking caption viewers to alert it to any problems via the social networking service, Twitter.
The Twitter account is @nbntech. To alert NBN to a captioning issue, simply log on to Twitter and select “mention @nbntech” in the drop down menu. It is also exploring other ways to allow caption problems to be reported, including SMS.
