Kristy Matheson, the Director of Film Programs at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, has been stolen away by Scotland’s Centre for the Moving Image. It runs two cinemas and the Edinburgh Film Festival.
In between, they program to short thematic runs which are invented by the ACMI crew.
‘It’s about, who is the film going to immediately attract, and then the context and the cultural value – why would we do that film? Bluntly, how do we spend our budget?