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
Zoe Newall
Trustees
Recruitment of Board Members
Plymouth Arts Cinema is looking to appoint several new Trustees to expand the diversity and range of skills and experience on the Board. 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.
Gareth Allen
Gareth’s earliest memory of movie going is from the mid 1970s when he frequently attended Saturday morning cinema at The Drake and Odeon cinemas in Plymouth. Children’s Film Foundation Films were usually on the bill, we used to sit on the seats in their folded position for extra height and rhythmically kick the backs of them when the films reached their most exciting moments……. Fast forward fifty years and Gareth believes that a great story is best told responsibly. Throughout his illustrious career as a journalist, broadcaster and filmmaker he’s championed diversity and sustainability; that commitment to putting people and the planet first is ingrained in his business, Sound View Media. A passion for inclusion and innovation means that “SoundView” has been an early adopter of immersive technologies, recognising their potential to reach and connect with diverse and under-represented audiences. He’s set a target to reach net zero by 2030, working in partnership with SoundView’s clients to deliver Albert certified carbon neutral productions.
Hamish Anderson
Hamish Anderson was born in Plymouth and has lived in or near Plymouth all his life. His earliest memories of the Plymouth Arts Centre (as it was in Looe St) are of it being a teenage meeting place and then as a place to see films. He is a solicitor who remains a consultant with an international law firm but who retired from mainstream practice in 2016, having spent the first half of his practising career in Plymouth and the second in London. He is an Honorary Professor at Nottingham Trent University and holds honorary degrees from both NTU and Kingston University. Following retirement, he served as Vice-Chair of the governors of the University of Plymouth and as a trustee of the Peninsula Medical Foundation. He is currently the Chair of the trustees of The Box Foundation.
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.
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.
Sue Wolstenholme
Sue was an usherette at the Drake cinema as a schoolgirl and has been a PR practitioner for over thirty years. She led campaigns to save Amnesty’s British section from bankruptcy and to develop membership at Survival International; was course leader for the BA in public relations at Marjon and directed an MA in European PR across six countries for Exeter University; carried out reviews into BT’s sponsorship strategy as well as the marketing and promotion output at the Natural History Museum; was an associate at the Post Office for six years to develop their corporate social responsibility work and at Albany to develop governmental communication in Moldova. Sue has been leading various projects and qualifications to raise professional standards for senior PR practitioners, chief executives and civil servants in Brunei, China, Croatia, Kenya, Armenia, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Dubai, Syria, Switzerland, Egypt, Serbia, Ukraine and the UK. She has chaired research juries, professional associations and the Hall for Cornwall board of trustees where, over nine years, the venue faced many issues, raised a lot of money and developed wonderfully. Sue worked as the director of communication for the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust for nine years and was retained by the South West Peninsula Health Authority, to develop and direct their communication strategy. Her text book for Pearson Education is still in print.