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When the going gets tough… The toughest rise to the challenge. CTC’s Peter Knight reflects on the global technology organisation’s success in delivering for its members in recent months.
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current guise just two and half years ago, now the world’s
step away from the BKSTS to form an independent body serving a wider global community. “It was a tough choice for everyone involved,
technology
but in hindsight the correct one,” explains Richard
trade organisation, the Cinema
Mitchell, president of CTC (and SVP at Harkness
Technology Community (“CTC”
Screens). “At the end of digitisation and with a
to its friends) has been an
changing internal team, we recognised that there
important part of our community for over 30 years.
was a need to reform and chart a new direction in
Initially founded within the BKSTS (now IMIS), the
order to ensure we were best-serving the globally
group spent the better part of three decades
connected cinema industry. We stood back and
supporting and educating projectionists during the
looked at our mission statement — and indeed our
film era and subsequently supporting the industry
team — and identified both the changes we needed
through the changeover to digital. Whilst the
to make and the direction of travel we needed to
cinema sector was transforming, other sectors of
head in. We spent a lot of time re-shaping the
media and entertainment were doing the same, so
leadership team to create a more gender-balanced,
in 2017 the CTC team made the hard decision to
diverse group with a range of skills and experience
largest
cinema
www.cinematech.today
