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Aaron Cutler / Slant Magazine / USA&Brazil
Aaron Cutler, a Philadelphia area native, lives in São Paulo with his wife, the artist Mariana Shellard. He has written for Slant, Moving Image Source, and Cineaste, among other publications, and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University. He keeps a site, The Moviegoer, at aaroncutler.tumblr.com.
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Ali Deniz Sensoz / Altyazi Magazine / Turkey
Ali Deniz Sensoz works as a fim critic in Altyazi Monthly Film Magazine which is published nationwide since 2001. He started writing on film in 2007 by contributing to online film magazines in Turkey, then he started to write for art and cinema magazines like Bant and Milliyet Sanat. He’s been contributing to Altyazi Magazine since 2009. He’s also interested in academic writing on film. During his studies in Film and TV MA programme in Bilgi University he wrote papers that were presented in national film conferences and one of them is published. Besides writing on film, he shoots short films which have been projected in some short film festivals in Turkey. His area of interest is focused especially on Third World cinema, film aesthetics and politics. He is also an active member of American based International Cinephile Society.
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Giovanni Vimercati (a.k.a. Celluloid Liberation Front) / Senses of Cinema / UK&Italy
Giovanni Vimercati is a film critic from Italy who currently lives in the United Kingdom. He founded the CLF_Project on the 1st of May 2008. Celluloid Liberation Front is a multi-use (r) name, an "open reputation" informally adopted and shared by a desiring multitude of insurgent cinephiles, formal saboteurs, aesthetic dynamyters and random deviants. For reasons that remain unknown, the name was borrowed from a collective of anti-imperialist blind filmmakers from the Cayman Islands whose films have rarely been unseen.
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Janka Barkóczi / Mozinet Magazine / Hungary
janka studied film and history at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. She works as a freelance film journalist for different Hungarian online and offline periodicals. Besides journalism, she participates in the coordination of a high school program in media education, and teaches film on various occasions. Through her experiences on working with teenagers in the field of film studies, Janka discovered that thinking on cinema (or speaking about heavy issues under cover of cinema) is just as important as making movies. Nowadays, she is especially interested in the topic of the representation of national histories on screen, and Idevoted to studying the imagery of the contemporary society and the youngest generation. Since she is also active in organizing the Titanic International Film Festival (Budapest), she’s highly motivated to discover the new achievements of the latest independent movies.
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Katrine Hornstrup Yde / Dagbladet Information / Denmark
Katrine Hornstrup Yde is a Danish film critic and cultural journalist at the national Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information since 2010. She has a MA in Modern Culture and a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Copenhagen and studied film at Columbia University, New York, and Université Paris VII, Denis Diderot, in Paris. Her Thesis was on concepts of shame and justice in modern popcultural representations of pedophiles. She presently teaches Literary Theory and Analysis at the University of Copenhagen.
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Pang Li / China Internet Information Center / China
Pang Li was raised in Hebei, a neighboring province of Beijing, the capital of China. I studied the English language and literature in a college in Shanghai. After graduation, he became an English editor and reporter. Now Pang is a staff reporter at China.org.cn, an official news website based in Beijing. He has covered cultural news, mainly film stories, for more than four years. He was sent to Shanghai twice to cover the Shanghai International Film Festival, the only A-Class international film festival in China. He is a passionate cinematic enthusiast and always curious about this media and wants to learn more about it. He also writes film reviews. |