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- Antonio Zeccola, Founder and Owner of Palace Cinemas. Antonio Zeccola's involvement in film dates back to the 1960's where his first foray into the motion picture industry was (like his father's before him) a rented town hall screening films to small but enthusiastic audiences.
Palace Cinemas founder Antonio Zeccola’s great escape to Venice. Antonio Zeccola has shaped Australia’s arthouse film culture for 50 years. And even a pandemic can’t stop him.
Antonio Zeccola founded this thriving organisation forty-five years ago and intriguingly enough, the way it came about could inspire a film genre Palace Cinemas specialises in. It is a story that has been likened to Giuseppe Tornatore's celebrated film "Cinema Paradiso", with its beginning presenting quite a few similarities.
Palace Cinemas was founded by Antonio Zeccola in 1965. [14] Zeccola's first cinema, Pix Theatre in Noble Park, was originally only open on weekends and operated as a dance theatre for the rest of the week.
Nov 30, 2023 · The building’s current owners accepted a bid from Palace Cinemas – a family-run business founded by Antonio Zeccola in 1965 – for a space within the forthcoming development, however Palace’s CEO tells us it “the economies of scale don’t add up”.
Antonio Zeccola, now owner of the Palace Cinemas chain and organiser of the Italian Film Festival, came to Australia in 1957 at age 14 years with his mother, four brothers and a sister.
Sep 10, 2024 · Palace Cinemas founder Antonio Zeccola recalls screening Weir’s 1977 film, The Last Wave, at his original independent Melbourne Palace cinema. “When The Last Wave screened Australian films were not completely supported by the Australian media but they were supported by cinephiles,” says Zeccola.
