Cinema-goers across the South West will have a greater choice of films at the cinema thanks to the creation of the world's first 'Digital Screen Network'.

UK Film Council funding is being used to install state-of-the-art digital film projectors and related equipment in 19 cinemas across the region.

In return for the new equipment, the cinemas, which range from smaller local and 'art-house' cinemas to multiplexes, have committed to providing more screening time to showing a greater selection of more specialised (ie non-Hollywood), classic, and foreign language movies.

The Digital Screen Network will also offer audiences and local communities in the South West a range of other benefits. Cinemas will be encouraged to use the equipment to show, for example, films made by local filmmakers, film clubs and schools.

Installation of the equipment will begin in 2007 in the following South West cinemas:

• Cineworld, Cheltenham
• Cineworld, Swindon
• Cineworld, Weymouth
• Cineworld, Yeovil
• Dorset Film Touring, Cinemobile
• Orpheus Cinema, Bristol
• Pendle Stairway Cinema
• Plaza Cinema, Dorchester
• Plymouth Arts Centre
• Royal Cinema, St Ives
• The Barn Cinema, Dartington
• The Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon
• The Plaza Cinema, Truro
• UGC Gloucester
• Vue Bristol Longwell Green
• Vue Plymouth
• Watershed Cinema, Bristol
• Wells Film Centre
• Wotton Electric Picture House

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