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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.
Founded by Antonio Zeccola in 1965, Palace Films is an independent, family-run distribution company that has proudly profiled the work of leading and emerging international filmmaking talent to Australian and New Zealand audiences for sixty years.
Jul 6, 2016 · “Humans are social animals and crave meaningful social experiences,” says Benjamin, who is the son of founder and owner, Antonio Zeccola. “Film theatres, especially respectful premium cinemas, provide an escape that no domestic screen or tablet can compete with.”
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.
The 77-year-old founder of Palace Cinemas, which has screens in 24 locations from Melbourne to Brisbane, Sydney, Byron Bay, Canberra and Perth, has been coming to the Venice Film Festival for decades.
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.
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”.
