The Sunday 3pm matinee performance of Dr Zhivago on 19 June will provide audio description for patrons.
To book, phone Janene Sadhu at Vision Australia on 03 9864 9384 or send her an email with your name, contact number, number of tickets required, number of audio description receivers required, and the best time for a Ticketek staff member to call to process your booking.
The rollout of these access solutions will take place in conjunction with the group’s digital cinema rollout, and will be available for widespread use in America over the next 12 to 18 months.
Chief Administrative Officer & Counsel Randy Smith said, “almost every Regal location nationwide will be fully equipped with digital cinema systems and be further equipped to provide closed captions and descriptive video for our deaf, hard of hearing and blind guests”.
The annual conference will feature a range of experts, including Media Access Australia CEO Alex Varley. The panel discussion will look at the upcoming audio description trial proposed for the ABC in the second half of 2011, as well as the trial that is now running in New Zealand. Entitled ‘Access to Digital TV, Audio Description and beyond’, the discussion will be on Sunday 22 May at the Bayview on the Park hotel in Melbourne.
Among the accessible cinema venues are the cinemas that have adopted the latest in captioning technology – the CaptiView system. This easy-to-use hand-held screen means more sessions are available to those who may benefit from captions.
