Rosie Taylor is a film programmer, historian, artists, and Co-Director/ Co-Curator at South West Silents. She has worked as Assistant Curator and a Board Director at Afrika Eye Film Festival, and Assistant Curator and head of Digital Media at Slapstick Festival (Bristol). Rosie is a recipient of the John Brabourne Award and a 2013 Graduate of the Giornate del Cinema Muto Collegium. She produced Afrika Eye’s tour of Siliva the Zulu (1927) with a live score in 2014, co-produced Slapstick Festivals 2016 Way Out West programme, and she is a specialist in the Western film genre.

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