Sponsors and funders of Cinema Rediscovered

Christina Newland delivering her keynote speech in front of an audience at Cinema Rediscovered 2024
Credit: Chelsey Cliff

Meet our Sponsors and Funders

Cinema Rediscovered has grown exponentially since its inception in 2016, thanks to our audiences and our many partners and sponsors. We are particularly grateful to our Principal Sponsors and Funder that are key to the sustainability of the festival.


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Interested in becoming a sponsor?

Get in touch to explore how your brand could be associated with the UK’s leading festival dedicated to restorations and rediscoveries and how you could get involved to help make our 10th edition shine. We offer tailor made packages that respond to what are sponsors want to achieve from the collaboration. Take a look at what was achieved as part of our last edition (PDF) 5.18MB.

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Meet the Principal Sponsors and Funders for our 9th edition

Park Circus

Park Circus

Established in 2003, Park Circus is a global film distributor with offices in Glasgow, London, Los Angeles and Paris and sales presence in Australia, Germany and Japan. 

They are proud to bring you over 25,000 back catalogue titles from libraries of the biggest Hollywood and British film studios as well as independent rights holders. They also distribute a growing number of contemporary films on behalf of studio and independent partners. Park Circus help make amazing things happen in over 100 countries around the world each year. From single screen community cinemas to international multiplex chains, from rooftops to pop-ups and for festivals big and small, we license retrospectives, reissues, restorations, one-off repertory screenings, special events and cinematic celebrations. They have an ever-increasing number of classics available on DCP and look after an extensive library of 35mm and 70mm prints. 

They love adventurous programmers, dedicated cinephiles, festival directors who delve into the forgotten corners of the catalogue, people obsessed with the history of movies and film fans of every kind. But, most of all, Park Circus love the movies.  

STUDIOCANAL

STUDIOCANAL

STUDIOCANAL is a leading film and television studio with worldwide production and distribution capabilities. It owns the largest library of European feature films and one of the most prestigious film catalogues in the world.

Comprising more than 9,400 titles from more than 60 countries, covering 100 years of motion picture history, gathering 80 world-renowned awards (70 Oscar and 18 Cannes’ Palmes d’Or), and including notable box office hits such as Rambo, Apocalypse Now, Terminator, Bridget Jones, Basic Instinct, Mulholland Drive, Escape from New York, La Grande Vadrouille” and The Father.

STUDIOCANAL regularly invests in maintaining and expanding its catalogue, having invested over €25 million in the last 7 years to restore more than 1000 classic films. Many of these films were re-released in theatres, shown at major international festivals, re-issued on DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra High Definition, and broadcast on television channels and digital platforms. The Vintage Classics range is a premium film brand from STUDIOCANAL celebrating iconic British films, each one lovingly restored and available with brand new interviews on Blu-Ray, DVD, UHD* and Digital.

BFI The National Lottery

BFI Audience Fund

The BFI Audience Fund invests £5.6m of National Lottery funding each year to expand access and encourage greater enjoyment of cinema by connecting audiences with great films - in venues, at events and online.  We do this by supporting: 

  • leading exhibition organisations, including film festivals, to deliver culturally rich and nationally significant programmes and events on a year round basis
  • projects which help exhibitors and distributors bring the best of UK and international cinema to audiences across the UK through events, distribution releases, multi-platform distribution proposals, touring film programmes and more
  • initiatives that address under-representation and are innovating audience development

The BFI is a cultural charity, a National Lottery distributor, and the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image.  

Their mission is:  

  • To support creativity and actively seek out the next generation of UK storytellers   
  • To grow and care for the BFI National Archive, the world’s largest film and television archive
  • To offer the widest range of UK and international moving image culture through our programmes and festivals - delivered online and in venue
  • To use our knowledge to educate and deepen public appreciation and understanding  
  • To work with Government and industry to ensure the continued growth of the UK’s screen industries Founded in 1933, the BFI is a registered charity governed by Royal Charter.  

The BFI Board of Governors is chaired by Jay Hunt. 

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Watershed

With

South West Silents
20th Century Flicks Video Shop
Curzon
The Cube Microplex
Bristol Aquarium
Bristol Mega Screen

Sponsor

Silk Factory

Hospitality and travel sponsors

6 O'Clock Gin
Great Western Railway

With partners

Goethe Institut
Film Noir UK
Il Cinema Ritrovato
Cineteca Bologna
Bristol City of Film a UNESCO Creative City
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
Bristol Black Horror Club
Aardman
BFI Film Audience Network
New York Women in Film & Television - Women's Film Preservation Fund
SWITCH
World Cinema Project
The Twelve 30 Collective
BFI Film Academy
Come the Revolution
Queer Vision