Christie opens Shanghai Film Festival
Published: ASIA
CHINA: Christie’s 4K digital cinema projector has been used to screen the opening film of the prestigious Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF). Christie was the exclusive digital projection partner to the SIFF for the sixth consecutive year.
The film screened to open the festival was the classic Chinese film Stage Sisters, which was also fully restored using 4K full-colour technology – the first full colour feature film to be restored in 4K by the SIFF. The manufacturer’s Solaria Series 4K DLP projector was used for the event.
In conjunction with SIFF, Christie also conducted the official launch of its first commercial laser projection system at the Shanghai Film Art Centre.
‘We are very proud to install and showcase the superiority and brilliance of the world’s first commercial laser projection system,’ said Lin Yu, vice president of Christie Asia Pacific. ‘This revolutionary projector system will show how 3D light levels, colour fidelity, image uniformity, viewing comfort, and a sense of immersion can be vastly improved, versus the conventional 3D systems found in cinemas around the world today. This heralds a new chapter in the milestones of global film technology and reinforces Christie’s position as the leader in ushering commercial theatres into a new era of high-brightness laser projection.'