Duncan Carson is the ICO Projects and Business Manager, working on (among other things) distribution and venue consultancy. He joined the ICO as Marketing and Communications Manager having worked as an editor and marketer in the publishing industry. He runs the itinerant screening programme Nobody Ordered Wolves, which shows neglected films across London. He’s taken his love of film in a lot of different directions including running a university film society, working with an independent distributor, running a pop-up screen in Hackney and lecturing on film. He has spoken at international events about social media, audience development and cinema marketing. After a year’s secondment at Curzon Cinemas, working on cinema marketing, CRM and audience development, Duncan re-joined the ICO in 2020 as Projects and Business Manager.
To contact Duncan, email: duncan.carson@independentcinemaoffice.org.uk
Ten Favourite Films
- Rainbow Dance
Len Lye | UK | 1936 - I Know Where I’m Going!
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | UK | 1945
Bookings Park Circus - They Made Me a Fugitive
Alberto Cavalcanti | UK | 1948
Bookings BFI - Daisies
Vera Chytilová | Czech Republic | 1966
Bookings Second Run - Nuts in May
Mike Leigh | UK | 1975
- The King of Comedy
Martin Scorsese | US | 1982
Bookings Park Circus - The Thing
John Carpenter | US | 1982
Bookings Park Circus - Killer of Sheep
Charles Burnett | US | 1984 - The Green Ray (Le rayon vert)
Eric Rohmer | France | 1986
Bookings BFI - Moonstruck
Norman Jewison | US | 1987
Bookings Park Circus