Screencraft Archivist
Grace joined the BFI as part of the Our Screen Heritage project. Her work centres on developing digital archival practice, and co-designing the workflows and policies needed to acquire, catalogue, and make accessible the born-digital document archives of contemporary filmmakers. Grace works with a range of digital material, including but not limited to documents, ephemera, posters, scripts, and stills.
Grace is chair of the Digital Film-Related Documentation Taskforce, an international network of archival professionals working with born-digital film-related materials. And was co-curator of the BFI season, Women Filmmakers and their Archives.
Grace previously worked in various roles at the British Library, predominately within the Sound Archive. She contributed to the National Heritage Lottery-funded project Unlocking Our Sound Heritage, where she catalogued audio recordings. Additionally, she worked as Cataloguer of the Tony Benn Audio Visual Archive, the largest multi-format collection ever acquired by the British Library. Grace’s special interests include audio in film and the work of women filmmakers.