Hero Image
Showtimes The Terminator - 40th Anniversary | 1:50PM Kneecap | 2:10PM, 4:20PM, 7:00PM Sing Sing | 2:30PM, 5:15PM Black Dog | 4:40PM, 7:25PM Close to You | 7:40PM
'This programme was brilliant. Such high quality which is what we need to see more of coming from Deaf professionals. Please more of this!'
Deaf audience member who attended Visible Cinema at Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Captioning is a service for people who are deaf and people experiencing varying degrees of hearing loss who require dialogue and off-screen sounds to be subtitled on the screen.
This service provides text in time with the audio from a film and this is displayed at the bottom of the cinema screen. Captions are of a higher quality than subtitles as captions also detail all non-dialogue audio such as '(sighs)', '(singing)' or '(doorbell rings)'.
Not all titles will be made available with a captioned format due to the financial capacity of distributors to write, record and produce a separate disc which then can be played and projected at the same time as the film print.
GFT checks if a captioned format is available for every film programmed. If this format is available to us, then captioned screenings of the film are programmed.
Live captioning or speech-to-text, is live text of dialogue voiced in the room. At GFT all Visible Cinema events have live captioning provided to ensure that each event introduction and post-film discussion is accessible. The text appears on the cinema screen, in large font and can be seen comfortably from anywhere in the auditorium.
If you have any queries please contact GFT either by email: access@glasgowfilm.org, by phone: 0141 332 6535 or BSL users can contact GFT via contactSCOTLAND-BSL, the on-line British Sign Language interpreting video relay service. Find out more at www.contactscotland-bsl.org