Curator, fiction
Rosie is a curator of fiction film at the BFI National Archive, with a focus on contemporary British cinema. She is responsible for selecting and acquiring incoming moving image collections and researching and interpreting existing collections. Her other specialist interests include the history of British cinema, small gauge film, silent westerns, film projection, and film collectors. She is currently a part-time PhD student at the University of Bristol, researching the History and Culture of 9.5mm Private Film Collecting in Britain.
Rosie has a BA (hons) in Costume for the Stage and Screen and an MA in European Cinema Studies. She is a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation in Rochester, NY, USA, and joined the BFI as an audiovisual archivist in 2018. Rosie previously worked as assistant curator and a board director at Afrika Eye Film Festival, and assistant curator at the Slapstick Festival. She is a co-founder and steering group member of Watershed’s Cinema Rediscovered, and the Bristol-based silent film organisation Southwest Silents.