Sheffield DocFest has hired Annabel Grundy to the newly created role of managing director.
Grundy will join in December from her current position project-managing the BFI’s UK Global Screen Fund.
The role is a new joint leadership position alongside acting creative director Raul Niño Zambrano, and will see Grundy head up DocFest’s business affairs, partnerships and fundraising, production and operations, and audience development. Former head of film programmes Zambrano was promoted in August to help deliver the 2023 edition.
Grundy, a Sheffield local, has also worked with the British Council, Riverside Studios, Edinburgh International Film Festival and latterly BFI Film Audience Network.
Interim CEO Clare Stewart will support the transition for both managing and creative directors and leave her role at the end of the year as planned.
Stewart stepped into the role alongside guest curator Asif Kapadia for the festival’s 29th edition, which ran in-person this year between June 23-28.
In August 2021 former festival director Cíntia Gil left her position over “artistic differences”, with the programming team subsequently criticising the board in an open letter.
The festival’s 30th edition will run June 14-19.
Grundy is the latest person to move on from the UK Global Screen Fund following the news the BFI’s head of international and industry affairs, Neil Peplow, is moving on to head the London FIlm School.
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