Catharine is Director of the Independent Cinema Office. She founded it in 2003 and continues to lead on the overall strategy and development of the company. Prior to founding the ICO, she worked at the BBC, the BFI, Arts Council England, as a Senior Programmer at the National Film Theatre, programmed the Encounters Film Festival in Bristol and worked as a freelance film programmer both in the UK and internationally. She has an MA in Film & Television from the University of London, has lectured in film and media at a number of UK universities, and is an experienced moderator and Q&A host as well as a contributor to a number of UK newspapers and magazines. She sits on the Steering Group for London’s Screen Archives, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an advisory board member for Be the Business and a voting member of BAFTA.
To contact Catharine, email: catharine@independentcinemaoffice.org.uk
Ten Favourite Films
- The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari)
Robert Wiene | Germany | 1920
Bookings BFI - Black Narcissus
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | UK | 1947
Bookings Park Circus - Sweet Smell of Success
Alexander Mackendrick | USA | 1957
Bookings Park Circus - Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock | US | 1960
Bookings Park Circus - The Silence (Tystnaden)
Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | 1963
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
David Swift | US | 1967
Bookings Park Circus - Breaking the Waves
Lars Von Trier | Denmark/Sweden/France/Netherlands/Norway | 1996
Bookings Pathé - Point Break
Kathryn Bigelow | US | 1999 - One Day a Man Bought a House (Huset på Kampen)
Pjotr Sapegin | 1998 | Norway - The Banishment (Izgnanie)
Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia | 2007
Bookings Curzon Artificial Eye