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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 was founded by Antonio Zeccola in 1965. 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. In late 1994, Palace opened The Como and The George cinemas in Melbourne.
Antonio Zeccola has shaped Australia’s arthouse film culture for 50 years. And even a pandemic can’t stop him. By Helen Barlow. Palace Cinemas chairman Antonio Zeccola. From The Weekend Australian Magazine. October 24, 2020. 9 min ute read.
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 Italian Film Festival was founded in 2000 by Cav. Antonio Zeccola who, in one of Australia’s many migrant success stories, built Australia’s only national boutique cinema network which now encompasses twenty four cinemas and more than one hundred screens nationally.
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.”
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.
