Jonny worked at the BFI from 2010 until 2017, initially in a role supporting the development team during London Film Festival before moving to BFI special collections, facilitating public research access to the scripts, document & ephemera collections.
He co-ordinated Mezzanine displays at BFI Southbank and co-curated the Scripts & Screenwriters exhibition to accompany the 2012 BFI/BAFTA Lecture Series. He trained as a librarian at the University of Leeds, after completing a degree in English and History.