Last year Christie provided XDC, the festival's official D-Cinema partner and CST, the representative organisation of cinema professionals in France responsible for the technical operation of Cannes, with 2K DLP Cinema digital cinema projectors. Helping the festival to screen a wide variety of digital titles and, supplying digital screening solutions to over 16 auditoriums at the festival.
This year that support extends to 18 auditoria and the review of digital material prior to screening, with more than half of the auditoria fitted with Christie 2K DLP Cinema projection. While XDC will implement it's new Cinestore Solo G3 server in the auditoria and a number of Doremi DCP-2000 servers.
"Cannes is probably the most recognised film festival in the World and a major cultural influence in cinema. Since our support of Cannes last year Christie projectors have been selected to support the first major digital cinema deployment in France and the first Virtual Print Fee model in Europe," said Dale Miller, vice-president of Christie EMEA.
(Jim Evans)
