To inquire about volunteering for any of these groups, please contact David Binet.  For many of the challenges we face, we need as much unity and coordination as possible.  NATO needs your participation.  As a member of NATO, you can participate in shaping our policies and our approaches to the challenges we face.

 


Audit Committee

Oversees NATO’s financial reporting process, internal financial controls, the audit process and the process of monitoring compliance with related legal and regulatory requirements.


Boxoffice (BO)

Oversees and discusses any alteration or interpretation of the existing NATO bylaws.


Captioning Task Force

Explores the development of standards and technologies to bring captions to digital cinema, and coordinates efforts to educate and urge federal and state lawmakers and agency representatives to use restraint with respect to rule-making in the area of captioning.


Feature

A movie


Digital Cinema

Consults with and advises NATO’s General Counsel on legal analysis of important issues impacting the exhibition industry.


Distribution

Consults with and advises NATO’s General Counsel on legal analysis of important issues impacting the exhibition industry.


Exhibition

Consults with and advises NATO’s General Counsel on legal analysis of important issues impacting the exhibition industry.


Gross

Oversees the budgeting and planning for NATO’s own convention, CinemaCon.  The task force coordinates convention planning with our trade show partners—the National Association of Concessionaires (NAC) and the International Cinema Technology Association (ICTA).


Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI)

Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC (DCI) was created in March, 2002, and is a joint venture of Disney, Fox, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros. Studios. DCI’s primary purpose is to establish and document voluntary specifications for an open architecture for digital cinema that ensures a uniform and high level of technical performance, reliability and quality control. (Source)


Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP)

Promotes the greening of exhibition by coordinating industry efforts to recycle trailer film and disposable 3D glasses, as well as to study and inform members about environmentally-friendly theater construction, building materials and business practices.


High Frame Rate (HFR)

Identifies, researches and develops strategies on nutrition and concessions issues, as well as monitors and analyzes the growing dine-in segment of the industry.


International

In the film business, this refers to all countries other than Canada, the United States, and U.S. territories 


North America

In the film business, this refers to Canada, the United States, and U.S. territories.


Proprietary Large [Screen] Format (PLF)

Reviews and submits recommendations to the Board regarding NATO’s investment policy, asset allocation, and investment strategies.


National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO)

The National Association of Theatre Owners is the largest exhibition trade organization in the world, representing more than 31,000 movie screens in all 50 states, and additional cinemas in 68 countries worldwide. Our membership includes the largest cinema chains in the world and hundreds of independent theatre owners too. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with a second office in North Hollywood, California, NATO represents its members in the heart of the nation’s capital as well as the center of the entertainment industry. From these vantage points, NATO helps exhibition influence federal policy-making and work with movie distributors on all areas of mutual concern, from new technologies to legislation, marketing, and First Amendment issues.


Megaplex

Coordinates security experts from NATO’s leading exhibition companies to meet with studio representatives in our collective fight against movie theft.


Motion Picture Association [of America] (MPA/MPAA)

Works alongside a public relations firm to help spread the NATO message in response to the studios proposition to offer movies in the home via video on demand.


Reel

Work to promote and administer the voluntary movie ratings system, as a useful guide for parents and as a successful deterrent to censorship.


Screening

Consults with and advises NATO’s General Counsel on legal analysis of important issues impacting the exhibition industry.


Service Provider

Develops recommendations on priorities for CinemaCon proceeds, as well as the long-term strategies for NATO activities.


United Drive In Theatre Owners of America (UDITOA)

Monitors and analyses the latest cinema technology to ensure that they achieve the highest standards set by the exhibition industry.


Ozoner

A drive-in movie theater