George Stephenson

During the common period of teenage years when you wonder what you’re going to do end up doing with your life, I suddenly had the idea that I should be working in an industry I’ve always loved. I knew I needed to study film and learn as much as I could about this industry. After completing a Film Studies undergrad, where I learned to come up with numerous metaphors and meaning that may or may not have been intentional, I took a leap and started a Film Marketing and Distribution course. Through script coverages and coming up with release strategies for films, I was fascinated by the complexity of all of the different cogs in the machine that is film. Here I took a particular interest in sales, and with a couple film festival internships on my belt, I finally got a job at the forefront of film, the cinema! Working at Picturehouse Central for a year, with a particular focus on the helping manage events there, I finally got to see the behind the scenes of a cinema firsthand. This all then led to Trafalgar, where I now work on building and maintaining those relationships with cinemas.

To get to be a part of so many extraordinary experiences for audiences always feels like a privilege, and I’m particularly proud so far of working on Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert, playing a role in putting my favourite musician’s concert film on the big screen and reaching those audiences feels like a privilege (and I’ll never complain at hearing the Pirates of the Carribean score on the big screen).