Staff
Director and Film Programmer
Anna Navas
Operations Manager
Manon Le Tual
Marketing and Communications Manager
Charlotte McGuinness
Duty House Manager and Technician
Steve Mitchell
Projectionist
Sam Lyne
Front of House Duty Managers
Mason Craig
Ruth Cremin
Thom Pyner
Book Keeper
Nicky Cottenham
Trustees
Recruitment of Board Members
The Board of Plymouth Arts Cinema is looking to recruit a number of new board members to work with the Chair and the rest of the board in supporting the management team to deliver the next phase of the organisation’s long-term plan. Click here for more information.
Current Board Members are:
Paul Brookes (Chair)
Paul Brookes was the Programme Director for The Box, Plymouth from August 2014 and then since April 2017 has been its Interim CEO. The Box opened to the public in September 2020. He has previously been the CEO of The Culture Company and Photo 98, which was responsible for delivering the 1998 UK Year of Photography and Digital Imaging, and then became the Director of Culture for Bradford Metropolitan District Council, leading its bid for the European Capital of Culture 2008 designation. His career since then has included being the Executive Producer for the Milton Keynes International Festival in 2014; the Project Director for a new-build visual arts centre, Rivington Place in East London (2004 – 2007); the Director of Leicester Revealed (2003 – 2006); and the Director of Arts for the Arts Council, Yorkshire and Humberside (1991 – 1995). He began his career as an independent film-maker, having completed a postgraduate course in Radio, Film and Television at University of Bristol.
Zoe Newall
After studying Business and Finance at university, Zoe qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2001. As an antidote to that she is a keen dancer and interior designer. Zoe has worked for a FTSE 100 company for the last 20 years, during which time she was seconded to the Prince of Wales’s Accounting for Sustainability as one of its founding project officers. She has lived in Plymouth for the last 13 years, a longing to be back beside the sea bringing her here from London. A desire to share her finance skills for the benefit of the wider community has led her to become involved with trusteeships in the city she now considers home.
Judith Noble
Judith Noble is Head of Academic Research and an Associate professor at Plymouth College of Art. She began her career as an artist-filmmaker, exhibiting works widely, before working in arts funding and the film industry. She was Film and Television Officer at the South West Arts Board, where she oversaw funding and support for film production and art house cinemas (including Plymouth Arts Centre) in the South West, before becoming Chief Executive of the South West Media Development Agency and then Head of Production at Sgrin Cymru Wales where she managed Welsh National Lottery funding for feature film production, script development and short film production and executive -produced films by directors including Peter Greenaway and Amma Asante. Judith is joint-coordinator of the Black Mirror Research Network and publishes widely on artists and independent film.
Stephanie Owens
Stephanie Owens is an interdisciplinary artist, creative researcher, and curator interested in the influence of digital networks on contemporary aesthetics and the production of subjectivity. Since 2019 Stephanie has been Head of School of the School of Arts + Media at Plymouth College of Art (PCA) in England where she also leads its Making Futures Research Group which is aligned to PCA’s Making Futures Biennial, an international conference that investigates contemporary craft and maker movements as ‘change agents’ in 21st century society. At PCA she has recently developed its ‘StudioLab for Embodied Media’ which is a new project-based research initiative in immersive media that unites the School’s BA courses in Fine Art and Creative Technologies. Prior to moving to the UK, Stephanie was Visiting Professor at Cornell University and Director of the Cornell Council for the Arts.
Angela Piccini
Angela Piccini is an Associate Professor in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at Plymouth University, and is one half of Bureau of the Contemporary and Historic (ButCH), based in the former Plymouth Arts Centre. As an artist and educator, she explores lively materialities through film and video with a particular focus on heritage-based creative (non)fictions. Her work includes Guttersnipe – A Micro Road Movie (2004), Beachley-Aust (2009), Association of Unknown Shores (2018-date, with Kayle Brandon and others). Her recent publications include ‘A Morecambe Mystery’ (2020, in Carruthers & Nour, eds. Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside), Imagining Regulation Differently: Co-creating Regulation for Engagement (2020, co-edited with Morag McDermont, Tim Cole, and Janet Newman), and The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World (2013, co-edited with Paul Graves-Brown and Rodney Harrison). She is a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee, Camp, Cube Cinema and Bristol Expanded and Experimental Film (BEEF). She originally hails from Vancouver, Canada.