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IN WHAT IS PROVING to be an incredibly exciting year and
now developing a range of advanced courses to provide
transitional period for the film industry, CTC is rising to meet
further education.
the challenge of supporting cinematic excellence globally ,
At CineEurope, we welcomed on board our first
helping the exhibition sector provide moviegoers with the
Sustaining Members (RealD, Harkness Screens and QSC),
best experience possible, writes Richard Mitchell, president
released our report in to the causes of 3D ghosting and
of CTC; the global cinema technology community.
recorded our first podcast taking our popular “In The Pub
In March, CTC supported the UKCA to deliver its two-day
With Mike Bradbury” seminar session and turning it in to a
conference in London and released a critically acclaimed
bar side chat on all things cinema (see above). If that wasn’t
“Exhibitors Guide to Premium Formats”, helping exhibitors to
enough, CTC partnered with Celluloid
crystallise the differences between various formats around
Join our cause
Junkie to continue to enable a focus on
only web content providing its growing community with
Behind everything we do at
interview series with 12 of the leading
exclusive videos, white papers and test content. Education
the
Technology
women in cinema, learning about their
remains core to CTC’s vision and in early May, we hosted a
Community is a passion for
careers to date, the challenges they’ve
one-day “Creating The Best Movie-Going Experience” training
ensuring that moviegoers — in
faced and how we make the industry
course with 40 delegates. The course provided attendees
fact cinema-goers — have the
more diverse and inclusive in the future.
with useful guidance on achieving picture and sound
best experience that it is
In latter half of the year, CTC is
perfection, the importance of testing, screen brightness,
possible to achieve. If you
continuing its partnership with the
understanding digital naming conventions, keys, TMS’,
share that ambition, you can
growing BigCineExpo conference in
accessibility, event cinema and auditorium cleanliness.
please join our community
Mumbai, providing expertise to the
Based on feedback, the CTC’s learning and education team is
today by heading over to our
important Indian market and also
site: cinema-technology.com
partnering with ExpoCine in Sao Paulo,
the world. Following this, CTC then launched its members-
Cinema
diversity conducting a landmark video
Brazil providing educational sessions. CTC EXECUTIVE TEAM Richard Mitchell (President), Graham Lodge (Vice President), Denis Kelly (Secretary), Mike Bradbury, Sandie Caffelle, Michael Denner, Danny Jeremiah, Peter Knight, Sarah Lewthwaite, Adam MacDonald, James MacFarlane, Andre Mort, Mark Nice, David Norris, Ngozi Okali, Kevin Phelan, David Pope, Toni Purvis, Steve Rance, Jim Slater, Simon Tandy, Patrick von Sychowski, Paul Willmott.
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CTC ADVISORY COUNCIL Tom Bert (Barco), Mark Christiansen (Paramount Pictures), Laurence Claydon (Consultant), Brian Claypool (Christie Digital), Theresa English (TK Architects), Nicolas Hamon (Kinepolis), Roland Jones (Vue International), Dominic Simmons (BFI), Russell Smith (Motion Picture Solutions), Debbie Stanford Kristiansen (Novo Cinemas), Alexey Vinokurov (RealD)
We are hosting our third annual awards night in London, addressing the key topic of what exhibitors should do with their ageing Series 1 and early Series 2 projection equipment and publishing a range of standardised test materials for event cinema. 0 9 / 1 9
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