Assistant curator, acquisitions
Becky is an assistant curator at the BFI National Archive, selecting and collecting examples of online moving image from the birth of the internet until now for Our Screen Heritage, part of a National Lottery-funded project, alongside her colleague Kristina Tarasova.
Becky joined the BFI in 2002 and has had various roles, including the project assistant for the Mitchell and Kenyon collection of silent films, coordinating preservation, research, and public engagement. As a non-fiction curator she contributed to the BFI’s post-war documentary project and more recently, coordinated the preservation of titles funded through the BFI Filmmaking Fund as a curatorial archivist.
Becky has written pieces for Medium, Sight & Sound and the BFI website. She has contributed writing to the publications: ‘The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon’ (2004) and ‘Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-War Britain’ (2010), and BFI video publishing releases, including ‘Play for Today: Volume 2’. With colleagues from across the arts sector Becky represented the BFI in the Southbank Centre’s Accelerate Leadership Programme in 2018. She is an AHRC-funded graduate of the University of East Anglia’s Film Archiving MA, where she had a placement at the Library of Congress.