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Image used for illustrative purpose. A cinema screen and red seats are seen in a cinema hall in the Palace Festival on the eve of the opening ceremony of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 10, 2016. Regis Duvignau
Wednesday, Jun 07, 2017
Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) has teamed up with Sennheiser to make films more accessible for people with hearing and vision impairments.
Sennheiser will offer its personal assistive hearing and translation tool CinemaConnect to audiences at Diff, between December 6-13. It will also make the tool available at a new, dedicated year-round theatre for independent films dubbed Diff 365@VOX, located in Mall of the Emirates’ cinema nine.
The initiative, with full endorsement from the National Media Council (NMC), arrives in support of the Year of Giving, announced by His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, and the Dubai Disability Strategy 2020.
“This is in line with one of our core beliefs in the importance of providing access to all mediums of content for all our residents across the UAE,” said Mansour Al Mansouri, director general of NMC.
CinemaConnect is a smartphone app compatible with both IOS and Android devices. It offers hearing assistance, audio description and a portable display unit for closed captioning. This can be directly connected to your assistive listening device or headphones.
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