Curator, fiction
Rosie is a curator, fiction at the BFI National Archive and has supported the work of the curatorial archivists and curators through the acquisition, inspection, research, interpretation, and cataloguing of incoming collections. She also assists with the organisation and selection of video content for digitisation as part of the BFI Heritage 2022 video digitisation project.
Rosie is a 2018 graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation in Rochester, NY, USA. She completed a four-month internship at the CARE USA Archive in Atlanta, Georgia, before joining the BFI. Prior to becoming an audiovisual archivist, Rosie worked as assistant curator and a board director at Afrika Eye Film Festival. In 2014 she received the Film and Television Benevolent Fund’s John Brabourne Award to develop her work as assistant curator at the Slapstick Festival. She is a co-founder and steering group member of Watershed’s Cinema Rediscovered, and co-director of the Bristol-based silent film organisation Southwest Silents. She has written for Silent London, South West Silents, and Watershed Cinema.
Rosie has a BA (hons) in Costume for the Stage and Screen and an MA in European Cinema Studies. She is a film researcher and historian in her spare time, and her specific interests are silent westerns, film collectors, and the history of British cinema.