Subtitled movies at BFI London Film Festival 2017 Good news for film fans! The BFI London Film Festival has announced that they will have a number of accessible screenings of films playing throughout the festival run. These are movies in spoken english provided with english language subtitles and descriptions of non-dialogue audio. Public bookings for these screenings open today from 10am (14th September) […]
Captioning Awareness Week 2016 Captioning Awareness Week will take place from 14th-19th November this year. The event, led by Stagetext, aims to raise awareness of captioning and live subtitling for people with hearing loss across the UK. This year, supporters are being asked to ‘put their name in a frame’ across social media to achieve this goal. They are being encouraged to […]
Monthly film club – Glasgow The Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) has a monthly film club ‘Visible Cinema’ deaf and hard of hearing audiences. Visitors can enjoy captioned or subtitled screenings followed by a post-film discussion enhanced by Speech-to-Text service and BSL. It recently launched a new Facebook page where visitors can keep tabs on future screenings, news and other events. […]
New accessible cinema website launched A new website for accessible cinema has been set up called The Independent Cinema Office. It is the national organisation for the development and support of independent film exhibition in the UK and aims to develop an open, thriving and challenging film culture. Its ultimate goal is to improve subtitling provision, train staff to make venues more accessible, improve the technical provision […]
BT bids to improve on-demand service for people with hearing loss Good news! Another big player in the broadcasting industry – BT TV – has launched a major project to improve its on-demand service for people with hearing loss. The broadcaster has recently made a large financial investment into new technology to enable subtitles to be displayed on its on-demand service, and is now inviting BT […]
Did You See? Subtitling on TV and chit chat People tend to meet and greet with “how are you’s”. If there’s time for a chat the next question very often takes the form of “did you see ‘’Get out of being an X factoring celebrity chef house decorating eastender on ice from coronation farm?” “No! Well what happened […]
