BAFTA-winning and Oscar®-nominated producer Stephen Woolley (of The Scala Cinema and Palace Pictures fame) delivers the Opening Night Keynote for the 9th edition of Cinema Rediscovered, ushering in the festival’s main retrospective strand Against the Grain: 1980s British Cinema.
Woolley’s prolific career has spanned over four decades across film exhibition, distribution and production, for which he was awarded the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in February 2019.
He started out in 1976 as an usher at London’s The Screen on the Green before going on to own and run his own repertory cinema, the legendary Scala Cinema. Scala later grew into theatrical distribution company - Palace Pictures - releasing the types of cult cinema and international art films that had a seismic impact on UK film culture.
Some forty years on, Woolley takes a look back at his journey through cinema including his thoughts on the ambitious but at the time critically derided musical Absolute Beginners (1986), which opens the festival on a 35mm print c/o BFI National Archive.
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