Collections Development Manager
Jez Stewart is the interim Collections Development Manager at the BFI National Archive, responsible for developing and implementing collection management policies and procedures. He joined the BFI in 2001, working extensively with the non-fiction and advertising collections, while developing his specialist interest in British animation history. He has given talks in Beijing, New York, across Europe and the UK, as well as to the staff at Disney, and written for a variety of publications. His 2021 book ‘The Story of British Animation’ was the first comprehensive history of the subject to be published. He co-curated the Animation 2018 season at the BFI in London.