Adrian Wootton is the Chief Executive of Film London – the agency charged with developing the film and media industry in the capital – and the British Film Commission – the unit responsible for promoting the UK as the best place to produce feature films.

Prior to becoming the Chief Executive of Film London, Adrian was Acting Director of the British Film Institute (BFI), in addition to having been the Director of the London Film Festival (LFF), the National Film Theatre (NFT) and Head of BFI Exhibition.

Subsequent to his appointment to the BFI, he was founding Director of Broadway Media Centre in Nottingham and Director of the Bradford Playhouse. He regularly broadcasts and reviews films for Radio 4 and contributes articles to various newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian and Sight & Sound.

He recently edited 'Black Friday & Selected Stories', a collection of stories by the American crime writer David Goodis, and is currently working on a full length biography of him.

He is Director of the crime and mystery festival, Crime Scene, and Programme Advisor to the London Film Festival, Venice Film Festival and Noir in Fest, Courmayeur. He is also Chair of the Advisory Board of Sensoria, Sheffield's Music & Film Festival and is a member of the Mayor's Cultural Strategy Board.

Adrian lectures regularly nationally and internationally on a wide variety of film and literary subjects, as well as curating film programmes and retrospectives for numerous organizations, including BFI Southbank. Most recently, he curated a retrospective on the film career of Frank Sinatra, which has been staged throughout the UK and Adrian accompanied it with a series of lectures.

He is currently working on two other writing projects, namely a critical study of the life and career of English novelist Graham Greene and a monograph on the American crime writer, Raymond Chandler.

In addition, Adrian is co-ordinating the film and television components of London's Dickens 2012 celebrations, this includes co-ordinating a large film and television retrospective, which will commence in the UK and tour throughout the world; co-editing a new collection of articles on Dickens in Film and executive producing a new documentary on Dickens in Film.

Adrian is also a member of BAFTA and the European Film Academy.