Will Massa is the curator of contemporary fiction in the BFI National Archive. Will joined the BFI in 2017, with the objective of ensuring contemporary British fiction film is comprehensively represented in the collection. He is currently helping to pioneer a framework for the acquisition of ‘new forms’ such as VR, multimedia and VFX into the archive. He previously worked in the British Council’s Film department, at various regional screen agencies in talent development, as a film festival programmer, a project assessor and a script consultant. He currently serves on the board of Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival.
Will has an MA in World Cinema from the University of Leeds and has specialist interest in short film, the relationship between ‘export cinema’ and soft power, British poetic realism, representations of class and masculinity in 90s British cinema, and the intersection between film and new technologies.