Steve has worked all his career in TV, film, web and print media, specialising in historical and archive based programming. Having gained a first class degree at Exeter, he started his career with the BBC working in its large and important film archive before going to work for ITV station TVS where he headed up the archive research team, working on a diverse range of mainly factual programmes. On one project, he discovered a cache of film cans in a barn in Norfolk in the East of Britain, which he edited and produced into a short film of a lost ballet production, which went on to win gold at Houston and New York festivals. Later Steve worked for a range of high profile projects like ABC’s ‘Century’, Jeremy Isaacs/CNN’s landmark series ‘Cold War’ which won BAFTA and Peabody awards - and the recent series, 'World War 2 in Color' for the Smithsonian Channel in the US. He has also worked in recent years with directors like Steve McQueen on ‘Small Axe’, Richard Loncraine on ‘Special Relationship’ and Peter Kosminski on ‘Britz’ as well as Gary Hustwit, director on current Oscar nominated title, ‘Eno’.
As a member of the APA (Archival Producers’ Association) and previous publisher of a magazine for archive producers and ex-editor of the magazine for the FOCAL trade organisation, 'Archive Zones', Steve has recently helped draft the guidelines for AI use and has a strong interest in the almost endless possibilities in the creative application of computing power to the archive arena…. to maintain the relevance of archives without compromising editorial integrity of productions.
As a member of the APA (Archival Producers’ Association) and previous publisher of a magazine for archive producers and ex-editor of the magazine for the FOCAL trade organisation, 'Archive Zones', Steve has recently helped draft the guidelines for AI use and has a strong interest in the almost endless possibilities in the creative application of computing power to the archive arena…. to maintain the relevance of archives without compromising editorial integrity of productions.