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Audio description in cinema

Summary: Information about cinemas across the UK equipped with audio description.

• Audio description in your area
• Cinema ticket scheme
• Bollywood Film Project
• Advertisement in Cinema for AD

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Have you ever sat in the cinema feeling frustrated because you couldn’t follow what was happening on the screen?

Many cinemas across the UK are now equipped with a system that delivers audio description through a headset, which is provided when you collect your ticket. The audio description runs each time the film is shown and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset. This means you can attend any screening of films with audio description and sit anywhere in the auditorium.

Audio description in your area

To find out which cinemas provide audio description in your area, please visit the Your Local Cinema website or telephone them on 0845 056 9824. The call centre is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Let them know which town you are in and they'll tell you if there are any audio described films being screened in your area. Alternatively, you can email ad@yourlocalcinema.com

For regular film synopses join our cinema information email distribution list. To join or for more information about audio description in the cinema, please email broadcasting@rnib.org.uk or telephone 020 7391 2398.

Cinema ticket scheme

You can apply for a Cinema Exhibitor’s Association (CEA) card which entitles you to two-for-the-price-of-one tickets in all participating cinemas if you either:

• claim Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
• or are registered blind.

For more information telephone 0845 123 1292.

Bollywood Film Project

RNIB's Bollywood Audio Description project aims to establish if there is a need for audio described Hindi movies in the UK and the making of audio described films in the UK and India.

We have been hugely successful in establishing the audio description of films as a norm in the production of DVDs and in cinemas across the UK. We now seek to expand and develop audio description services for Bollywood films.

For information on this project visit our Bollywood project page or email audiodescription@rnib.org.uk

Advertisement in Cinema for AD

A new advertisement aimed at raising audience awareness of the availability of audio described and subtitled screenings will hit the big screen at the end of May 2009.

For more information and to watch the advertisement visit the CEA website.

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Content author: audiodescription@rnib.org.uk

Last updated: 14/05/2009 16:54