As the Garden Cinema audience has been especially nice this year, we’re stuffing your stockings with celebratory celluloid treats to get you in the festive mood.

The film’s co-directors and animators, Neil Boyle and Kirk Hendry, joined us for a Q&A following the screening – it was great to hear from children in the audience! Come to The Garden Cinema to enjoy Films for the Family every Saturday & Sunday morning and on weekdays during the school holidays for some of our favourite family classics. For cinema lovers of all ages.

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Recorded on 26th October 2024 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ

Chosen by Holly Waddington, Academy Award Winner for Best Costume Design (Poor Things), this screening of The Gold Diggers of 1933 was followed by a Q&A with Holly and Fashion Film Club founder Sarah Bailey.

The third of a Gold Diggers “franchise”, the film tells the story of show girls trying to make a living during the Great Depression, which the film references openly. The Gold Diggers of 1933 is often cited as one of the great classics of pre-Code Hollywood.

Recorded on 17th October 2024 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ

In the Works is our regular series of screenings and informal conversations with guests from all areas of the industry, hosted by Oscar nominated composer Gary Yershon. Gary’s guest is the writer and director Jeremy Brock.

Jeremy first rose to prominence as the co-creator of Casualty. He was BAFTA nominated for his screenplay for Mrs Brown (1997), and alongside Peter Mogan, he won the BAFTA for Best Adaptated Screenplay for The Last King of Scotland in 2007, which also won the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film.

Recorded on 13th October 2024 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ

Casting directors Rebecca Wright (Chuck Chuck Baby, Call the Midwife) and Lucy Jordan (The Lesson, Poor Things) discuss their careers and approaches to casting.

Rebecca Wright CDG CSA has worked in the entertainment industry for over 30 years. Starting out as an Assistant Director in TV and Film, she moved into the wonderful world of casting in 1998. After gaining invaluable experience working alongside some of the most esteemed Casting Directors in the UK, she set up her own company, Rebecca Wright Casting, in 2011. She casts for TV and Film, and has cast many TV dramas including Call The Midwife, Sanditon, Britannia, Rillington Place and Thirteen. More recently she has cast independent feature films Chuck Chuck Baby and Madfabulous.

https://www.rebeccawrightcasting.com / @beccawrightcdg

Lucy Jordan is a casting director with over a decade in the industry. She has frequently collaborated with director Yorgos Lanthimos, including on the Academy Award-winning The Favourite and critically acclaimed Poor Things, as well as on Lanthimos’ newest feature Kinds of Kindness. Lucy was casting director for Alice Troughton’s The Lesson, and most recently on Meta’s first ever scripted VR series The Villa, for Eli Roth’s Crypt TV. In 2023 Lucy partnered up with fellow casting director Shenae Rae to form Jordan & Rae Casting, working in TV and film with some of the UK’s top production companies.

Industry panels followed by networking in our bar is one of the benefits of Garden Cinema membership. Find out more: https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/membership/

Recorded on 2nd October at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ

Watch the trailer for Trailblazers, a season that continues to celebrate the work of women filmmakers in the US in the 1970s and 80s.

Lee Kang-sheng joins us for a Q&A as part of our season, Taiwanese Cinema: Now and Then.
Moderated by Tony Rayns, with translation by Millie Zhou. Presented in partnership with Queer East.

Recorded on 11th September 2024 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ