Leading UK Film Organization BFI Posts CEO Job Spec With Search Under Way

The UK’s lead organization for film, the BFI, is ramping up efforts to find its next CEO after posting the job spec online, something it is obliged to do as a publicly-funded body.
Incumbent CEO Amanda Nevill announced last month that she would be stepping aside next year after 16 years at the helm of the film finance and culture entity, which has an annual budget in the tens of millions.
In yesterday’s post to the BFI website and the Guardian, the BFI said it is “seeking an individual with a demonstrable passion for the art of film, television and new emerging forms of interactive and immersive storytelling.”
The candidate for the job should be “a proven and influential leader with the ability to conceive and articulate both a vision and a strategy for the future success of the UK’s screen industries at home and abroad. You will...
Incumbent CEO Amanda Nevill announced last month that she would be stepping aside next year after 16 years at the helm of the film finance and culture entity, which has an annual budget in the tens of millions.
In yesterday’s post to the BFI website and the Guardian, the BFI said it is “seeking an individual with a demonstrable passion for the art of film, television and new emerging forms of interactive and immersive storytelling.”
The candidate for the job should be “a proven and influential leader with the ability to conceive and articulate both a vision and a strategy for the future success of the UK’s screen industries at home and abroad. You will...
- 7/2/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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