Staff and Trustees

Staff

PAC 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, currently comprised of 4 Trustees. 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.

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.

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.