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Ten cinemas in Northern Ireland are equipped
with subtitle & audio description facilities

 

Belfast: Odeon

The Hangover subtitled (15) 1 hours 39 mins
 Sun 5th July 3:00, Tues 7th July 5:30

 

Lisburn: Omniplex

Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen subtitled
(12a) 2 hours 27 mins
Wed 8th July 4.45

 

And more subtitled films!

On release in many cinemas:
foreign language films with English subtitles.

Latest releases include:

Anything For Her
Gripping French Thriller (French with English Subtitles)

Red Cliff
Director John Woo heads back east to helm the most expensive Chinese language film in history, set during the rule of the Han Dynasty in 208 AD. Jaw dropping, epic...

Let The Right One In
'A stunning film rings the changes on the classic Dracula format' - The Guardian. (16) (114mins) (Swedish with English Subtitles)
Please enquire at cinema

Details, trailers and links to listings HERE.

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No subtitled mainstream films next week? Please ask the cinemas to screen the many available subtitled films!

Ballymena: IMC, Larne Link Rd.
Banbridge: Iveagh Movie Studio, Downshire Rd.

Belfast: Odeon
Belfast: Moviehouse Yorkgate
Belfast
QFT Queen's Film Theatre, University Sq
Belfast: Village Cinemas (Storm, formerly Vue), Odyssey Centre
Carrickfergus: Omniplex
Enniskillen: Omniplex
Lisburn: Omniplex
Newry: Omniplex The Quay's Shopping Centre

 

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News:

30 September 2008: The Cultural Cinema Consortium announces Cinema Digitisation Scheme

The Cultural Cinema Consortium, a strategic partnership between the Arts Council and Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board (IFB), is launching a new scheme to provide capital funding grants towards the cost of purchasing and installing digital projection equipment.

The purpose of the scheme is to ensure that audiences have access to a range and choice of cinema programming that is more diverse than the mainstream and that Irish cinema operators, offering such programming, have an opportunity to install digital projection equipment at a cost that is compatible with their turnover and operating costs.

Capital grants towards the cost of purchasing and installing digital projection equipment will be made available to full-time cinema operators who can demonstrate that they currently provide a clear majority of diverse programming on a year-round basis. The scheme will offer grants to cover 85% of installation costs for up to ten cinema screens, subject to a maximum contribution of €75,000 per screen.

Simon Perry, Chief Executive of the Irish Film Board, said "It is vital that public funding intervenes to ensure that cinemas offering Irish audiences a wider choice of film, than that available in mainstream commercial cinemas, are not left behind in the digital race".
Fionnuala Sweeney, Head of Film and International Arts at the Arts Council, said "The Arts Council is delighted to be offering this grant scheme in partnership with the Irish Film Board, through the Cultural Cinema Consortium. It will help arthouse cinemas play their part in the digital age and ensure that Irish audiences have access to a diverse range of cinema programming."

The deadline for receipt of applications for the Cinema Digitisation scheme is 17:00 on Friday, 24 October. Further details on the scheme are available on the websites of the Irish Film Board and the Arts Council.

Cinema Digitisation Scheme

Closing date: 24/10/2008
Maximum awarded: €75000

 

NOTE!

We receive accessible listings directly from cinema head offices. Unless urgent amendments are required, listings are updated every Thursday. We take great care to ensure the listings are timely and accurate but can take NO RESPONSIBILITY for postponed or cancelled shows. If cinemas inform us of changes, we will tell you via this website. If they don't inform us, we can't inform you.

Many cinemas schedules are "SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTIFICATION". Sometimes the files necessary for a subtitled or described film are not available, or are not delivered to the cinema on time. The only way to be 100% sure is to check with the ACTUAL cinema before you plan a visit. But DOUBLE check, preferably with a manager. We recommend that you should always request confirmation that a show is definitely on.

Please read this:

Subtitled and audio described cinema enables people with less than perfect hearing or vision to enjoy film presented in its original and best form - the cinema.

Cinema subtitles appear at the bottom of the cinema screen. Cinema audio description is similar to listening to a cricket or football match on the radio, having the action described to you. The normal film soundtrack comes through the cinemas surround sound speakers in the usual way, and a recorded narrator explains what's happening on screen - in gaps in the dialogue - through personal headphones.

Northern Ireland Screen (formerly the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission/NIFTC), introduced their 'Cinema Access Programme' to help fund the installation of subtitle (captioning) and audio description equipment in cinemas across Northern Ireland. It's aim was to enable individuals with hearing or visual impairments to enjoy the cinema experience.

The NIFTC doubled its original budget to £70,000 to meet demand from cinemas.

The Cinema Access programme launched in April 2005. A series of simultaneous events took place in some of the awarded cinemas on April 12th to celebrate the launch of the programme. (NIFTC article HERE). It is hoped that the cinemas involved will screen subtitled and audio described films on a regular basis. These 'accessible' cinemas are listed above. Most (sometimes all) of the top 10 cinema releases at any one time are available with subtitles and audio description, and all accessible shows will be listed on this page as soon as we are notified of them.

In 2006 Odeon/UCI added subtitle/description facilities to their three Dublin cinemas, and Eye Cinema in Galway became accessible.

In 2006 an American company - AVICA - announced plans to convert almost all cinemas in the North and South of Ireland to digital - the plan is to install new digital projectors. (DigitMag article HERE). These systems can display subtitles. Adaptations can be made to include audio description features too.

In January 2007 DTS, the well known cinema sound company, became involved and have plans to develop further digital cinema in Ireland. Read the press release on the DTS website.

According to Digital Cinema Ltd, who run the project, Phase 1 is now complete, with 26 digital projectors installed. Phase 2 - the conversion of the rest of over 500 screens - has started (May 07). Watch this space for updates.

Or watch the Avica website for news of developments.

More info on the Digital Cinema Ireland website.

NOTE:

There's no guarantee that cinemas with new digital projection equipment will actually utilise the built-in 'access' features. No digital cinema has yet made plans to ensure that people nationwide with hearing or visual impairments will be able to enjoy the cinema experience..

 


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