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UNIC launches third Women’s Cinema Leadership programme THE INTERNATIONAL UNION of Cinemas (UNIC) — the European cinema trade grouping — launched the third edition of its Women’s Cinema Leadership Programme at CineEurope this June. A 12-month mentoring programme for women in cinema exhibition, it follows the success of the first two rounds of the programme.
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STRONG/MDI SCREEN Systems, a leader in projection
screen
manufacturing
and
optical
The mentoring programme will see eight talented
coating development, has announced the release
female European cinema professionals receive one-to-one
of its Premium HGA 1.7, a screen developed for the
support and development advice from outstanding women
latest high-resolution laser projectors. Premium
executives from across the cinema landscape.
HGA 1.7 has been engineered specifically for high
This edition will also for the first time see the initiative expand its reach, welcoming mentees from UNIC’s Partnership Programme to include participants from 14 different companies across 10 territories.
output projector systems that demand superior light diffusion properties. Strong/MDI’s lead chemist, Carmen Simion, explained: “Although the new screen is part of the
UNIC CEO Laura Houlgatte commented: “It’s with great
HGA family, the 1.7 coating has unique properties to
pride that we at UNIC are continuing our committed efforts
enhance light scattering and mitigate speckling.”
towards promoting more gender-balanced leadership in
The proprietary technology behind the HGA coating
the industry. We set out with the key long-term objective
results in a whiter-looking screen with an ultra-
of broadening the talent pool for leadership in cinema
wide viewing angle. Images appear bright and even
exhibition, in the hope that the
across the surface while colours in all parts of the
mentees of today would become the
spectrum are deep and rich.
Laura Houlgatte at the launch in June
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