A CELEBRATED filmmaker and Oscar winner is due to visit Wotton next week. 

Thelma Schoonmaker - who is also a BAFTA winning filmmaker - is due to visit the Electric Picture House Cinema in Wotton on Wednesday, November 27.

Thelma is best known for her decades-long collaboration, as an editor, with Martin Scorsese.

She first worked with Martin on Who’s That Knocking on my Door which was released in 1967.

In her career she has received nine Ocsar nominations for best film editing.

She has also won a record three Ocsars for her work on films including Raging Bull (1980), The Aviator (2004), and The Departed (2006).

She is also known for recent work on films including The Irishman starring Robert De Niro and Killers of the Flower Moon which features Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone.

The Wotton visit is part of an event introducing a new documentary on the work of Thelma’s late husband Michael Powell. 

Powell died in 1990 and was buried at the Holy Cross Church in Avening, where he and Thelma were married.  

Thelma has worked extensively to share and promote Michael’s work – which includes classics like The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus and A Matter of Life and Death. 

In the documentary Made in Britain: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, Martin Scorsese tells the story of his lifelong love-affair with their movies. 

Martin Scorsese first encountered the films of Powell and producer Emeric Pressburger when he was a child, sitting in front of the family TV.

Martin Scorsese, Michael Powell and Thelma Schoonmaker  (Image: Submitted) Thelma Schoonmaker is due to visit Wotton's Electric Picture House Cinema (Image: PA News Agency)

When their famous logo came up on screen, Scorsese said, "You knew you were in for fantasy, wonder, magic - real film magic." 

"Certain films you simply run all the time and you live with them,” he added. 

"As you grow older they grow deeper. I’m not sure how it happens, but it does. 

“For me, that body of work is a wondrous presence, a constant source of energy, and a reminder of what life and art are all about." 

Drawing on a rich array of archive material, Scorsese explores in full the collaboration between the Englishman Powell and the Hungarian Pressburger.

Thelma will introduce the film on Wednesday, November 27 at 7.45pm, and take questions afterwards. 

Tickets can be booked at wottoncinema.com, or by calling the box office on 01453 844601.