BAFTA today confirms the chairs and deputy chairs of its Film, Games and Television Committees.
BAFTA’s three sector committees – comprised of BAFTA members who volunteer their time – play a central role in the oversight and steering of BAFTA’s high-profile Film, Games and Television Awards, and support BAFTA to deliver its strategic charitable mission through invaluable industry insight and expertise. The chairs of all three committees also sit on BAFTA’s Board of Trustees.
BAFTA’s guiding principles for its awards are to celebrate creative excellence, level the playing field, provide a fair and robust process, and encourage positive industry change. The eligibility, campaigning rules, and voting criteria for the Film, Games, Television, and Television Craft Awards are individually reviewed and set by the sector committees annually.
- Emily Stillman, senior vice president at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, has been elected chair of BAFTA’s Film Committee, having held the position of deputy chair for two years. Emily will serve alongside Anthony Andrews, co-founder and creative director of We Are Parable, who has been elected deputy chair.
- Hilary Rosen, director of commissioning at UKTV, has been re-elected chair of BAFTA’s Television Committee. Christine Healy, director of production at Playground, has been re-elected as deputy chair.
- Tara Saunders, studio head of Larian Studios, continues as chair of the Games Committee, alongside deputy chair Des Gayle, founder of Altered Gene.
As previously announced, Hilary Rosen was recently appointed by the Board of Trustees as deputy chair of BAFTA.
Full details of the Committee Members for Film, Games, and Television can be found on the website here.
Sara Putt, chair of BAFTA, said: “We are so grateful to our Sector Committee members, who are comprised of people from across the screen industries who generously volunteer their time and expertise. We are delighted to see Emily Stillman elected as our Film Committee chair, Hilary Rosen re-elected as chair of the Television Committee, Anthony Andrews elected as deputy chair for Film, and Christine Healy re-elected deputy chair for Television. Together with Tara Saunders, who chairs BAFTA’s Games Committee and Des Gayle, who is deputy chair for Games, our Committees play a central role in ensuring BAFTA’s activities, including our world-leading awards, support and spotlight the screen industries and the talented people within them.”
Biographies
Emily Stillman
As senior vice president at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, Emily is responsible for business development, marketing and operations for Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden and Warner Bros. Burbank; working to attract all types of productions, from tentpole feature films, HETV and independent British Film and Television. Most recently Emily has been involved in the vast expansion of WBSL as well as the launch of The Ranch Studio in Los Angeles. Emily is passionate about diversity and inclusion and during her time at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden has worked on a number of initiatives and events with the aim of making the industry more inclusive, including the introduction of the first ever on site childcare facility The Wonderworks and the creation of CREWHQ training centre for production crew. Emily has been a board member of the Production Guild, the BFC National Advisory Board, the Film and TV Charity Mental Health Taskforce, and was elected to the BAFTA Film Committee in June 2021. Emily was listed in Variety’s Women That Have Made An Impact in Global Entertainment 2021 and 2022 report.
Hilary Rosen
As director of commissioning at UKTV, Hilary leads a team of commissioners, overseeing a growing slate of original scripted and unscripted content such as the new drama series Outrageous, Bergerac and I, Jack Wright, the award-winning Emma Willis Delivering Babies and Big Zuu’s Big Eats. She was original commissioner of Dave’s BAFTA-winning Taskmaster. Under Hilary’s leadership, UKTV was the first broadcaster to BAFTA albert certify all commissions to reduce a production’s carbon footprint and the first to commit to paying access costs on every production. She joined the BAFTA Television Committee in 2021 and has been chair for the last two years, alongside becoming a Board Trustee and deputy chair of its Board of Trustees. Hilary regularly speaks on industry panels and sits on a number of taskforces, most recently Film and TV Charity’s Mentally Healthy Productions initiative. She has also led roundtables combatting antisemitism and Islamophobia in the industry. She has been a consultant for BBC Academy and has sat on the advisory boards of Edinburgh Television Festival and Realscreen, and is a mentor for women in television.
Anthony Andrews
Anthony Andrews is the co-founder and creative director of We Are Parable, a multi award winning film exhibition and distribution company which provides audiences across the UK and the around the world, opportunities to experience Black Cinema and television in culturally relevant, unique and memorable ways. Since the company was founded by Anthony and his wife Teanne Andrews in 2013, he has collaborated with organisations such as The British Film Institute, BBC Film, Netflix, Universal, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Film4, and many others. In the last few years, Anthony has helped to deliver international projects in Jamaica, Kenya, and Colombia, in association with the British Council.
Christine Healy
Christine joined Playground as director of production in 2024 and is responsible for the management & oversight of the physical production of the Playground slate – ensuring timely and on budget delivery. Previously, she was head of production at New Pictures (The Spanish Princess, Des, Cobra, Catherine the Great) and former COO at Keshet UK. Her previous career as a freelance line producer credits include Doctor Foster, Indian Summers & Line of Duty. Christine is an active advocate for the UK HETV community through her work as deputy chair of BAFTA TV Committee and membership of Pact Council and ScreenSkills HETV Skills Council.
About BAFTA
BAFTA’s mission as a charity is to champion the creative and cultural importance of the screen arts across film, games, and television. Through its Awards ceremonies and year-round programme of talent initiatives and learning events that include masterclasses, lectures, scholarships, bursaries, and mentoring schemes in the UK and North America, BAFTA identifies and celebrates excellence, discovers, inspires, and nurtures new screen talent, and enables learning and creative collaboration. For more, visit www.bafta.org. BAFTA is a registered charity (no. 216726).
