Area movie theater chains are offering special screenings to make the cinema available to more audiences, such as regular sensory-friendly and captioned movies. Emagine Theaters also are experimenting with screenings catering to the needs of people with dementia.
During sensory-friendly screenings at Emagine Theaters, the lights are up and the sound is down a bit. Audience members are also encouraged to move, dance and sing.
Emagine is not alone in offering specialty movie screenings for people with particular needs. Marcus Theatres locations in Orland Park and Country Club Hills offer assistive technology, such as closed captioning devices, descriptive narration and assisted listening devices. AMC Theatres in New Lenox, Crestwood and Chicago Ridge all offer select sensory friendly screenings as well as closed captioning and assisted listening devices, while Crestwood also holds open caption screenings.
Emagine Entertainment’s Frankfort location is among those offering sensory-friendly and open caption screening options for some new releases. “The more screenings we can provide those communities, the better,” LaVerde said. “We’re just excited they’ve embraced Emagine and the efforts to enhance their experience with their expertise.”The dementia-friendly screenings, which include preshow mingling, also provide guests with door-to-door service guided by a team of staff and volunteers Emagine calls the “Purple Angels.” Training teams to be dementia-friendly is part of the reason Emagine is taking things one step at a time.
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