Tom Abell, Managing Director and owner of Peccadillo Pictures, has been presented with the inaugural Iris Prize Fellowship. Honouring those who have made a significant contribution to the LGBT+ film industry, the fellowship recognises Tom's services to LGBT+ film distribution in the UK.
Over the past 40 years, Tom's commitment to sharing LGBT+ cinema has brought hundreds of films to UK screens, including Skin Flicks, Head On, The Watermelon Woman, Weekend, and recent hit Sauvage which played at Iris Prize last year.
The fellowship was presented by Lord Glendonbrook (former Chair of Channel 4) as patron of the Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival at the Ministry, a private members club and workspace for the creative industries, during the Cardiff-based festival's annual London Reception.
