Peter Sainsbury

Peter Sainsbury was Head of Production at the British Film Institute in the 1970s. He worked with major British directors of the era, such as Derek Jarman, Chris Petit, and Peter Wollen. He is best known for commissioning Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract (1982). Sainsbury spent his career promoting narrative art house films to the wider public, mainstreaming works that charted a path between avant garde experimentalism and conventional narrative form.

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