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Bringing Audiences Back, Supporting the Recovery Richard Mitchell, President, Cinema Technology Community (CTC) THE GREAT news is that cinema is back, audiences are
countries, making CTC the world’s largest cinema technology
returning and box office revenues are recovering - with the
trade organisation. This scheme will remain in place until the
recent UK figures for “No Time To Die” in particular proving to
end of February 2022 (visit cinema-technology.com for details).
be nothing short of remarkable. We’ve proved the doomsday
And as we emerge from the pandemic, CTC’s focus has
merchants wrong (again), cinema remains as resilient as ever -
now moved to supporting cinemas to ensure that presentation
battered and bruised perhaps, but far from irrevocably broken.
excellence remains a top priority. The team has been working
It remains to be seen how complete the global recovery is yet,
on an ambitious project to provide a set of test materials for
however the indications are that the climb back is very much
event cinema, to be rolled out over the coming months. We’re
underway, with increasing momentum.
also revisiting our Projection Handbook to provide significant updates to this valuable resource and
The CTC has, over the past 20 months, supported the
Join our cause
are actively pursuing the restart of our
seminars and podcasts, our team has worked tirelessly to
Behind everything that we
bridge the inevitable skills gap that’s
create a platform to educate, collaborate and inform the
do at the Cinema Technology
likely to exist as a result of the pandemic.
industry. We wanted to ensure that when the recovery
Community is a passion for
But as the industry rebuilds, it
commenced, our members would be in the best possible
ensuring
position from a technical perspective to provide amazing
have
movie-going experiences once again. And the global
experience possible. If you
commitment to diversity and equality
community responded.
share that ambition, please
in our industry remains strong and we
Our free Community Membership scheme saw our global
join our community today by
recently recorded a second series of
membership grow to more than 700 members in over 70
heading over to our site:
“Women In Cinema” interviews at
cinema-technology.com
CineEurope. In December we’ll be
industry in ways never previously envisaged as we entered the pandemic. From white papers, technical guides, videos,
that
the
moviegoers
best
cinema
acclaimed training courses to help
needs to do so bolder, more diverse and
better
than
before.
Our
unveiling our 2021 award winners and CTC EXECUTIVE TEAM Richard Mitchell (President), Graham Lodge (Vice President), Mike Bradbury, Sandie Caffelle, Michael Denner, John Dowsland, Peter Knight, Sarah Lewthwaite, Adam MacDonald, Saul Mahoney, Andre Mort, David Norris, Markus Overath, Alessandra Pavan Bernacchi, Grainne Peat, David Pope, Toni Purvis, Simon Tandy, Patrick von Sychowski, and Paul Willmott.
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to CTC ADVISORY COUNCIL Tom Bert (Barco), Mark Christiansen (Paramount Pictures), Brian Claypool (Christie Digital), Theresa English (TK Architects), Mark de Quervain (Showtime Analytics), Jan Rasmussen (Nordisk Film), Dominic Simmons (BFI), Sriram Sistla (CinemaNext India), Alice Tentori (Digima), Julia Vinokurova (RealD)
round
out
our
Community
Membership scheme, we’ll be hosting our second One Community Day event in February 2022 to, once again, bring together
the
global
cinema
community for a day of learning and networking online. www.cinematech.today
