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Good evening, everybody.

No? Welcome

to the 67th BFI

London Film Festival.

My name is Jason Wood and I'm the
director of public programme and

here. It's very bad form to have a
favourite film in a festival that you're

responsible for.

But I'm going to be honest, this is the
UK premiere of Scala.

Three exclamation marks, very, very long
subtitle.

And it does have a real personal
connection to me. When I was growing up

80s and 90s, the Scala for me was a
place of refuge, actually, like many of

people here. A show of hands if you're a
Scala regular.

Yeah. Okay, so you're a converted crowd.

It was a place where I kind of went to
find out about myself, but it's also a

place where I went to find out about
world cinema.

And if I've had any kind of career in
the film industry, the most important

thing I learned at the Scala was that
all culture has currency.

Something that might have no value to
one person might have a huge amount of

value to somebody else.

So don't be a snob.

And that's something that we try to
apply here with the programme.

The Scala documentary is co -directed by
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall.

And we're very personally invested in it
at the BFI.

Mia Bayes and her team helped fund it,
and it's going to be released by BFI

Distribution on January 5th, and then
it's going to be on BFI Player on

22nd, and it's going to tour cinemas
across the UK.

I'd like to... We have a very small,
very hard -working distribution team,

they never get any thanks or
acknowledgement.

So let's give them a round of applause
for all the hard work that they do.

There is another screening tomorrow,
which is going to have a Q &A

It is completely sold out.

And there's a number of exciting things
happening. When we release the film on

January 5th, there's also going to be a
season, a gala season, called Rock and

Roll Cinema, which Jane and I have
worked on.

I can't tell you what's in it because we
haven't announced it, but it's going to

be Manor from Heaven for Perverts and
Deviants.

So everybody, everybody welcome.

Final thing to inform you is that after
the film tonight, we have a DJ set in

the bar, which is going to invoke the
spirit of the Scala. So piss and shit

over the floor, probably.

And poppers will be on sale.

So do join us in the bar to have some
fun.

You're going to have a really great
time.

There's so much to recommend in this
film. Score from Barry Adamson.

It's just a riot. We love it so much and
we're so pre -old.

I've invented a new word.

Proud to be releasing the film next year
on January 5th.

Somewhere in the audience, there is a
Jane Giles.

So, Jane Giles, would you like to stand
up and join me?

Thanks everyone for coming. It's great
to see you. This is first and foremost a

film about audience.

So it's you, the audience, I think.
That's where we all started. That's

filmmaking begins and ends, is with
audience.

So first of all, I'd like to say thank
you to Chrissie Matheson and her team at

the LFF, particularly the
projectionists, the front of house

team who put it together.

We're honoured to be having the UK
premiere of the film here at the LFF.

I'd like to say thank you to Jason and
to Stuart Brown, to Julie Pearce, to

Jill Redding, to Phil Roberts and to
Douglas Weir in technical delivery and

rest of their teams who are releasing
the film, as Jason says, in January.

I'd like to thank the Dock Society.

Anyone here from the Dock Society?

Oh, yes.

There's one.

Fabulous. And their colleagues at the
BFI. I'd also like to thank the 400

people who contributed to the
Kickstarter campaign.

It was a really valuable part of the
funding.

And is there anyone here who contributed
to the Kickstarter?

Fantastic. I think there might be a few
more than that. Particularly thanks to

David Babsky, Robert Randolph and Paula
Jalfon, who are our fantastic executive

producers.

I first of all should have warned you
that this introduction is going to

a little bit of audience participation.

so we'll get ready for that so maybe
hold any applause right for the end

we need to do something spectacular as a
finale to this intro which is being

filmed for the Blu -ray additionality so
filmmaking is a collaborative

And to help you meet some of our
collaborators, I'd like to

introduce my most valued colleague, Ali
Catterall, my co -director.

So, Ali, can you introduce us to the
producers, please? Yeah, one

sec.

It's out of focus.

So, yeah, it took us five years to make
this film.

But we finally got it over the line
thanks to our producers, Alan Mark and

Reed of Chanlex. Where are you?

Thank you, guys.

And also the incredible Andy Stark.
Where have you gone?

Who also edited the film alongside the
extremely patient Edward Mills. Where

you?

Thank you so much.

Andy and Ed also worked on the sound
editing, and we're really thrilled that

sound team was led by Martin Pavey, the
really great sound designer, and Nicky

Ruck, who, between them, made a most
fantastic soundtrack.

We work with Chris Watson, the Cabaret
Voltaire founding member and great sound

engineer for Attenborough's Life on
Earth. And he put contact mics all

the building and recorded the sound of
the Scala.

And that's embedded into the soundtrack
for the film. So those of you familiar

with the rumble will hear that.

Can I just add my personal thanks to the
current team of the Scala in King's

Cross, to Ryan Bissett, Jane Cotter, and
all their colleagues. Thank you for

giving us access to your beautiful
building.

You made it look much nicer than we did
when we were there as a cinema.

And are you here, Jane, Ryan?

Hello, there at the back. Hi.

So among our 50 interviewees, we're
delighted to have several of them here

today. Please come to the stage,
starting with the incredible Barry

also composed our score.

Come on, all the rest of you, everyone
who's in the film, we want you on stage

now.

Okay, I'm going to introduce you to Ali
Cayley, projectionist, Tricia McGrath,

graphic, Caroline Katz, Mike Leatham, 2D
design, David McGillivray,

Mark Moore, Graham Humphries,
Resurrection Joe, also known as Lee

Barry Adamson, Ali, you know, Cathy
Unsworth, Jane Pilling, Peter

Helen DeWitt, Paul Putner, and, of
course, Rory Perkins from The Mix.

So all of our cast here were people who
were in the audience at the Scala, and

you'll see in the film them talking in
interview about what it was like and

it felt like.

to ask anybody who ever worked at Scala
Cinema to stand up.

And stay standing, please. Stay
standing.

Anybody else who ever worked at 2D
Design, please stand up.

Thank you. Stay standing, please.

And please stand up anybody who ever
went to the Scala cinema.

Stay standing. And please stand up if
you've worked on our film in any shape

or form.

Stay standing, everyone.

And all contributed to the Kickstarter,
please stand up.

And finally, if there's anybody else in
the room not standing, please can you

stand up now?

Thank you. We just got our standing
ovation before the film started.

So just sorry, the last thing that I do
need to say is that tomorrow at 4pm, the

London Film Festival is announcing the
Audience Awards.

Sorry, you can sit down now.

and it's an online thing you need to get
on the LFF website and vote for us if

you like the film or vote for us if you
don't like the film because I think it

would just be quite funny if a film
about audience won the audience award so

don't think we're winners in any other
sense but let's go for it and enjoy the

film