Ali Catterall

Ali Catterall is an award-winning writer, journalist, filmmaker and editor, whose writing has been featured in Time Out, GQ, Film4, Word magazine and the Big Issue, among many others. He has also been a weekly TV previewer for the Guardian since 1997.

In 2001, he co-authored Your Face Here: British Cult Movies Since the Sixties, and in 2018 edited Scala Cinema 1978-1993 by Jane Giles, winner of the 2019 Kraszna-Krausz Award - the only award dedicated to books about the moving image.

In 2021, he co-wrote Kindness (A User's Guide), with Kitty Collins. He claims zero bragging rights to this concept, and is just trying to figure it all out like the rest of us.

In 2024, his debut film SCALA!!!, co-directed with Jane Giles, was released to critical and commercial acclaim, with four and five stars across the board in the national press, and regularly selling out on Blu-ray. A major feature-length documentary about London's notorious and influential Scala Cinema, it was produced by the BFI and Channel X (Detectorists, Home, Vic and Bob). He now won't write another word of film criticism ever again.

He is also working on a memoir about his bizarre childhood.