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Direct View LED in 2025: What’s Real, What’s Next, and What It Means for Giant Screens

Direct View LED in 2025: What’s Real, What’s Next, and What It Means for Giant Screens Session Recap Date: Thursday, September 18, 2025 Session Leader and PowerPoint Presentation: Paul Fraser, Blaze Cineworks Session Goals To thoroughly introduce delegates to LED, including its potential to transform theatrical exhibition in general, and Giant Screen cinema in particular. To not only educate theater people, but to inspire content producers, post-production specialists, and distributors to imagine how they will adapt to LED as a transformative display technology. Watch Video [...]

Direct View LED in 2025: What’s Real, What’s Next, and What It Means for Giant Screens2025-10-22T19:55:18+00:00

Open Space Session – Film Expo 2025

The 2025 GSCA Open Space highlighted a strong consensus: Giant Screen cinema must transform from "showing movies" to "creating must-experience events." Across 17 sessions, common themes emerged

Open Space Session – Film Expo 20252025-05-16T15:30:22+00:00

Embracing the Immersive Future

Embracing the Immersive Future Presented at the 2024 Filmmaker Symposium Moderator: Michael Daut, Michael Daut Productions Panelists: Dani LeBlanc Dan Neafus Kate McCallum Dan Tell Ryan Wyatt Description: Currently giant screen technical specs live around 4K resolution and 24 fps. There are some exciting exceptions, especially in the immersive dome world. The advent of LED domes and the impact of the MSG Sphere on the cultural Zeitgeist has changed audience expectations and the ways they consume entertainment outside the home. In this session, we will [...]

Embracing the Immersive Future2025-04-07T17:18:05+00:00

Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS) V 2.0

DIGITAL IMMERSIVE GIANT SCREEN SPECIFICATIONS (DIGSS) V 2.0 Work is currently underway for DIGSS 3.0. If you are interested in participating in this update, please contact Tammy Barrett Giant Screen Cinema Association Executive Director. Introduction This is the third formal revision of the DIGSS 1.0 document that was the result of the Digital Immersive Screen Colloquium for Unified Standards and Specifications (DISCUSS), a three-day meeting organized by the White Oak Institute in Marblehead, MA, in June 2010. DISCUSS brought together a panel [...]

Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS) V 2.02025-10-24T15:19:40+00:00

Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS) 1.2

Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS) 1.2 September 22, 2015—GSCA is pleased to announce the release of the Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS) 1.2, the second formal revision of the DIGSS 1.0 document that was the result of the Digital Immersive Screen Colloquium for Unified Standards and Specifications (DISCUSS). In DIGSS version 1.2, the GSCA technical committee made relatively modest changes to the values of several specifications in Section 1 to reflect the latest advances in technology (e.g., laser‐illuminated projection and object‐based sound [...]

Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS) 1.22024-11-22T22:34:49+00:00

We Need To Talk: A Town Hall Meeting on the Giant Screen Industry’s Business Models

We Need to Talk...A Town Hall Meeting on the Giant Screen Industry's Business Models Presented on September 11, 2019 GSCA 2019 International Conference in Victoria, BC Moderator: Paul Fraser, Blaze Cineworks Panelists: Daniel Ferguson, Cosmic Picture Caroline Borgudd, Cosmonova, Swedish Museum of Natural History Amber Hawtin, SK Films Jeana McNeil, Isurus Market Research & Consulting The giant screen film and theater industry has not experienced growth in a long while. In fact, some metrics are on a downward trend. It’s hard to imagine growth returning [...]

We Need To Talk: A Town Hall Meeting on the Giant Screen Industry’s Business Models2024-10-31T02:17:01+00:00

Successful Tourism Partnerships Leveraging the Tourism Market

Successful Tourism Partnerships Leveraging the Tourism Market Presented at the 2024 International Conference Session Organizers: Thom Benson, Tennessee Aquarium Diane Carlson, Giant Screen Cinema Consulting Moderator: Thom Benson, Vice President and Chief Communications and Marketing Officer, Tennessee Aquarium & IMAX® Theater Panel Members: David Blair Chief Marketing Officer, Chattanooga Tourism Co Caroline Borgudd, Marketing Communications Manager and Steering Committee Member, Cosmonova, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden Patty Collins, Director of Global Sales, MacGillivray Freeman Films Description: Learn how to work with regional tourism office to [...]

Successful Tourism Partnerships Leveraging the Tourism Market2024-10-17T17:04:32+00:00

Revolutionizing Concessions in Giant Screen Theatres

Revolutionizing Concessions in Giant Screen Theatres Presented at the 2024 International Conference Session Organizer: Ryan Holota, Chief Operating Officer, Saskatchewan Science Centre Presenter: Larry Etter, Senior Vice President, Malco Theatres, Inc. and Director of Education, Entertainment Food and Beverage Association (formerly known as the National Association of Concessionaires) Session Overview: While ticket sales are essential, untapped revenue potential lies in a giant screen theatre’s concession. This session will explore the changing landscape of the concession stand. Session Description: The changing landscape of the concession: No [...]

Revolutionizing Concessions in Giant Screen Theatres2024-10-17T16:48:05+00:00

Maximizing Audience Engagement through Social Media Analytics

Maximizing Audience Engagement through Social Media Analytics Presented at the 2024 International Conference Presenter: Meg Bell, Senior Manager, Commercial Marketing and Public Relations, Museums Victoria and IMAX Melbourne Session Overview: In today's digital age, social media is an essential tool for engaging with audiences and driving traffic to giant screen theatres. Meg Bell from IMAX Melbourne will present an insightful session on leveraging social media analytics to enhance audience engagement and improve marketing strategies. Session Description: Meg and her team are experts in using social [...]

Maximizing Audience Engagement through Social Media Analytics2024-10-17T16:30:55+00:00

Deal or No Deal: Realities of the Producer/Distributor/Theatre Triangle

Deal or No Deal: Realities of the Producer/Distributor/Theatre Triangle Presented at the 2024 International Conference Session Organizer: Phil Streather, Principal Large Format Presenters: Patty Collins, Director of Global Sales, MacGillivray Freeman Films Michael Dalton-Smith, Director/Producer, Wild Imagination Films Patricia Keighley, Chief Quality Guru, IMAX Corporation Ryan Holota, Chief Operating Officer, Saskatchewan Science Centre Tyler Mifflin, Managing Director/Producer, SK Films Description: Is it time to revisit the distributor/theater splits? 75% average to theatres was forged in the heady days of theaters spending $100,000 or more to [...]

Deal or No Deal: Realities of the Producer/Distributor/Theatre Triangle2024-10-17T16:20:11+00:00