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Digital Screen Network

Cinema-goers across the South West have a greater choice of films at the cinema thanks to the creation of the world's first 'Digital Screen Network'.

The UK Film Council awarded funding for the installation of state-of-the-art digital film projectors and related equipment in 210 cinemas across the UK - 19 of which were located in the South West region.

In return for the new equipment, the cinemas, which range from smaller local and 'art-house' cinemas to multiplexes, committed to providing more screening time to showing a greater selection of specialised, classic and foreign language movies.

The Digital Screen Network offers audiences and local communities in the South West a range of other benefits; for example, cinemas are encouraged to use the equipment to show films made by local filmmakers, film clubs and schools.

Installation of the equipment began in 2007 in the following South West cinemas:

  • Cineworld, Cheltenham
  • Cineworld, Swindon
  • Cineworld, Weymouth
  • Cineworld, Yeovil
  • Dorset Film Touring, Cinemobile
  • Orpheus Cinema, Bristol
  • Pendle Stairway Cinema
  • Plaza Cinema, Dorchester
  • Plymouth Arts Centre
  • Royal Cinema, St Ives
  • The Barn Cinema, Dartington
  • The Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon
  • The Plaza Cinema, Truro
  • UGC Gloucester
  • Vue Bristol Longwell Green
  • Vue Plymouth
  • Watershed Cinema, Bristol
  • Well Film Centre
  • Wotton Electric Picture House

Digital Screen Network