Welcome to Your Local Cinema - your accessible cinema resource
This website is part of a comprehensive program to provide accessible cinema in Australia. This includes the funding of equipment and promotional support for 12 independent cinemas around the country, provided by the Federal Department of Health and Ageing.
On this site you will find all that you need to know about captioning and audio description in Australian cinemas and the rest of the world. You can check session times for all of the accessible cinemas in Australia, get information about the accessible movies that are playing, link to accessible trailers (both audio described and captioned) and find out the latest in accessible cinema news.
Four cinema chains respond to access questions
An exemption application to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was lodged by Greater Union, Hoyts, Reading and Village cinemas last year. This is to provide an additional 23 cinemas with both audio description and captioning capability. It also proposes retro-fitting the existing 12 cinema locations with audio description capability.
Change of film for Hoyts Carousel, Perth
12 February 2010
Media Access Australia has been notified that due to an unreadable access disc, Invictus will not play at Hoyts Carousel this week in Perth.
E-postcard campaign and community protests for cinema
8 February 2010
The newly formed Action on Cinema Access group has announced two ways that community members can be involved in the fight to increase the number of accessible cinemas in Australia.
Read more: E-postcard campaign and community protests for cinema
Senator pushes for cinema access in Kentucky USA
Kentucky Democrat Senator Ray Jones has introduced a bill which would compel Kentucky cinemas to provide captioned access. According to Jones there are 640,000 Kentuckians with a hearing impairment and most cinemas do not offer a captioned service.
Change to captioned cinema schedule at major chains
1 February 2010
Media Access Australia has been notified by the exhibitors that the access discs for the film Up In the Air have not arrived in Australia.
Read more: Change to captioned cinema schedule at major chains
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