Jill Hawkins. Board of Directors

Executive Director of the archive Trade Association ACSIL since 2003, Jill Hawkins has been an industry expert in the stock footage field for many years. She pioneered and headed up BBC Library Sales (now BBC Motion Gallery) for many years by taking it from a UK based sales operation to become an international leader in stock footage – albeit 3000 miles from the archive! During a diverse BBC career she became Head of Business Development helping to establish a nascent BBC Films by negotiating the theatric rights for “Truly, Deeply Madly.” Later she headed up Marketing, Rights and Clearances of BBC Worldwide, organizing the departments to maximize the long term catalog value of the BBC’s archives and developing investment led marketing strategies for new programming. She became Head of Business Affairs and then Television Sales Director, responsible for the worldwide portfolio of BBC’s commercial programming in the international market. Mandated to develop the BBC’s archives she developed “WildVision”, the award winning commercial production arm of the NHU guiding it through development to fully fledged production house for long form and commercials. She represented television programming for the BBC Charter renewal commercial strategy committee in the mid 90s helping to “unlock” the BBC’s vast catalog of drama and comedy which later led to the development of the BBC’s first satellite channels. Deployed to the US to open a US based Library Sales operation she developed a number of innovative archive strategies with Microsoft and DCI and negotiated the BBC/CBS representation agreement as well as the current website based business strategy and pioneered the use of broadband based delivery of transmission materials to clients.

Jill is a professional photographer and shoots most of the BAFTA East Coast's special screenings and events.

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