SHERRY HOPKINS – 2025 WEST AUSTRALIAN CINEMA PIONEER OF THE YEAR Few individuals have done more to shape film culture in Western Australia than Sherry Hopkins. Over more than four decades, she transformed the Perth Festival’s film program into one of Australia’s most respected showcases of international cinema, inspiring generations of audiences and championing independent…
DetailsSTEPHEN HEAD – 2024 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CINEMA PIONEERS OF THE YEAR Stephen Head was born in Geraldton, moving to Perth at the age of 1980 to go to Curtin University (Then WAIT) studying diagnostic radiology. Whilst at WAIT, in his spare time Stephen would help the Curtin University film club, ushering and learning projection, led…
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JOANNE MCDONALD – 2024 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CINEMA PIONEERS OF THE YEAR Joanne writes… We met Jeff Bassen and a few of the local HOYTS projectionists while out exploring the night life of Perth. Jenny and I were offered a position at HOYTS as usherettes at the Paris Cinema, in the Plaza Arcade in March 1978,…
DetailsKATHY SHARP – 2023 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CINEMA PIONEER OF THE YEAR Movies have always been in my blood. My Mum worked as a teen for Arthur & Rene Stiles at The Cygnet, as did my Aunty and my Uncle (in fact they met at work). As a child I remember lining up at City cinemas…
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STEPHEN LAMB – 2022 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CINEMA PIONEER OF THE YEAR Stephen reminiscences about his career in Exhibition… “I have vivid memories of first attending cinemas as a child in Melbourne, when we would catch the train into town to watch the latest Disney movie at either the Metro Cinema in Bourke Street or Collins…
DetailsIAN HALE – WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PIONEER OF THE YEAR 2021 Ian first commenced in the WA film industry in 1993 as a sales booker with United International Pictures (Paramount/Universal/DreamWorks/MGM). In 2003 UIP split, and Ian took on the role as WA/SA/NT State Manager for Paramount Pictures, with Paramount adding Transmission Films to their theatrical distribution…
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Maxwell Reddin’s love of movies started the day his Mum took him to see “Snow White” at the Plaza Theatre. He was 3 years old and immediately fell in love with “the picture business’ as it was then known. His father, Keith, was the accountant at Paramount Pictures, and many Saturday mornings were spent in…
DetailsRoy Mudge commenced in the WA Cinema Industry after leaving John Curtin High School in 1963. Starting as an assistant projectionist with City Theatres at the Princess Theatre in Fremantle, before transferring across town to the Oriana Cinema where he learnt his craft for the next fifteen months. In June 1965 Roy moved into Perth…
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