Jane Giles
Jane Giles is the BFI's Head of Content, responsible for the department that distributes a wide range of archival, classic and contemporary films to cinemas and film societies in the UK and internationally, and publishes key titles on commercial video. Amongst the department's greatest hits of 2008 were theatrical revivals of The Conformist (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 1969) and Jules et Jim (dir. François Truffaut, 1961), the release of Terence Davies' latest film Of Time and the City, the 4-disc DVD box set Land of Promise: the British Documentary Movement 1930-50 and a lavish Blu-ray edition of Pasolini's Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom.
Previously, Jane Giles was Head of Acquisitions at Tartan Films, and Director of ICA Cinemas & Distribution. She has also worked in both script development and programme acquisition for Channel 4, and as programmer of short films and animation for the Rotterdam and London film festivals. Her first job was film programmer of London's infamous Scala Cinema, and last summer Sight & Sound published her eulogy to the lost art of the repertory double bill.
Jane Giles has also written for The Guardian, Time Out, Artforum and Attitude, her book publications include:
- Un Chant d'amour: the Cinema of Jean Genet (BFI, 1991)
- BFI Modern Classics: The Crying Game (BFI, 1997)
- A Filmmakers' Guide to Distribution and Exhibition (BFI/Film Council, 2001)
- Criminal Desires (Creation, 2002)
