IMIS VIEW Relaunch Update: New Website!

David Pope, Acting President, IMIS (International Moving Image Society)

Greetings to all CT Magazine readers. We are delighted to announce that IMIS has completed the first phase of the restructure and invite you to explore our new website at www.movingimage society.net For the last two years the society has not taken subscriptions for membership. This was mainly due to the impact of the pandemic and our ability to deliver a program of networking events during this period. The board decided it was unreasonable to continue to take subscriptions without being able to deliver a service in return.

The good news is that the society’s membership of over 1,000 has been preserved over this time. All members should have recently received an email invitation of free access to the members area on the new website for a limited period. Just log-in using your email address. Check out all the new features and facilities we now offer. If we somehow missed you and you didn’t receive an email, please let us know by emailing membership@movingimagesociety.net

Re-Launching for new times

The society has faced some difficult times in recent years. More recently a small group of volunteer members have been working hard to stabilise finances, assets and infrastructure. The good news is - IMIS (formerly BKSTS) is now financially stable, still here and ready for re-launch and re-activation!

Improve your networking, knowledge, and career consolidation

You probably already know the benefits of networking with colleagues from within your own specialism. In addition, IMIS presents you with the opportunity of networking with colleagues from outside your field of expertise. The increased knowledge from presentations, meetings, events, and content from the full vista of the moving image industry, will surely help you to be even better at what you do. Consolidate and build on your position within these fast-moving industries. This basic philosophy has been at the core of IMIS for almost a century, and whatever your stage of career, it is more important now, than ever.

Benefits & Events

The new website will be developing and growing in content over the next year or two. In the members area:Please make an entry about yourself in the Members Directory so you can start increasing the size and breadth of your potential contacts.

Why not investigate some of the recordings of past events, or explore the portal that leads to our immense archive of articles and features about the moving image industries. You’ll find that our close association with Cinema Technology Magazine continues and all fully paid-up members will get printed copies posted to them.

Details of further events can be found including, introductions to virtual production and motion capture are being planned for later in the year.

The Society has always been a membership focused society. If you have any suggestions, can offer any assistance, or might want to get involved with the re-activation of The Society –wherever you are in the world, please get in contact with us by emailing: info@movingimagesociety.net

We are indebted to Pinewood Studios for their continued support of The Society as it re-activates. My thanks to Mark Trompeteler Chair of our Advisory Council for his assistance in writing this Newsletter.