James Mathers and Simon Sommerfeld of Digital Cinema Society
Effective Date: March 27, 2013
Digital Cinema Society Celebrates 10th Anniversary
The Digital Cinema Society announces that it is celebrating its 10-year anniversary as the industry’s leading nonprofit educational cooperative dedicated to informing the entertainment industry regarding the integration of new technology. DCS President James Mathers reflects on the milestone, “It’s been an evolutionary decade for the way motion pictures are captured, posted, and exhibited, most notably via a transition from celluloid toward the use of digital technology. We have never celebrated or sought to accelerate this process, but we have made it our business to try to objectively track these changes and help our members adapt to them.”
Mathers and team will be covering NAB 2013 with a comprehensive digital show tour that can be viewed on www.DigitalCinemaSociety.org.
The Digital Cinema Society was formed in 2003 as an outgrowth of a documentary entitled “Digital Cinema Solutions” that featured interviews with industry luminaries such as James Cameron, George Lucas, Stephen Soderbergh, Robert Rodriguez, and Allen Daviau, ASC. Mathers explain’s “It was a labor of love, and I’m very proud of the documentary, but with the technology evolving so quickly, the piece was almost obsolete before we could finish it. That is why we decided to make it an on-going effort based on a website that could be more easily updated”.
The Digital Cinema Society now has an international membership nearing 6,000 and holds regularly scheduled educational events which are recorded for later streaming from their website. A monthly enewsletter also features technology news and helps members keep up with the latest developments in the field of digital cinema.
For more information, please visit: www.DigitalCinemaSociety.org
Digital Cinema Society
P.O. Box 1973
Studio City, CA 91614
Photo caption: James Mathers, President, Digital Cinema Society and
Simon Sommerfeld, President, Northern California Chapter, DCS