Innovations Spotlight Day – Saturday, September 20, 2025 – Fort Worth, TX
Innovations Spotlight Day - Saturday, September 20, 2025 - Fort Worth, TX
World Cafe Session – GSCA International Conference 2025
World Cafe Report - GSCA 2025 Conference Purpose of the Session The World Café brought together industry participants to explore the future of the giant screen and immersive cinema sector. Using facilitated rounds of conversation, participants identified emerging themes, key opportunities, and collective priorities. The session culminated in a “Harvest Wall” of insights, built into clusters to reflect shared priorities for the industry. Structure of the Session Multiple Rounds of Discussion: Participants rotated tables, ensuring a cross-pollination of [...]
Open Space Session – GSCA International Conference 2025
Open Space 2025: Where the Future Gets Written The GSCA International Conference 2025 opened with a session unlike any other. Instead of panels or PowerPoints, the very first gathering put the agenda into the hands of members. Using the Open Space method, participants chose the topics, formed their own groups, and dove into the conversations that mattered most to them. The result? A dynamic, buzzing kickoff that set the tone for the rest of the conference—and reminded us that the future of the giant screen [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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) 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]