All Festivals articles – Page 49
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Chris Kumar (UK)
Kumar is film programmer and programme coordinator at the Glasgow Film Festival.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Dorota Lech (Canada)
“The audience at TIFF is very curious and very adventurous.”
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Pony Ma (Taiwan)
She has worked with fellow programmer Hung Jianluen to curate the entire Taipei Film Festival selection of around 130 films between just the two of them.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Hind Mezaina (UAE)
One of her career highlights was creating a film programme titled Bayn Al Khaleej at Nyuad Art Gallery which showed films from the Gulf region.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Vanja Milena Munjin Paiva (Chile, Portugal)
After joining the festival’s team in 2019, she created Tramas at Chile’s FICValdivia.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Hanna Reifgerst (Germany)
“There is nothing better than the pure joy and awe of a young audience.”
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: K.J. Relth-Miller (US)
She is in thrall to the wonders of 70mm projections, nitrate prints and curating esoteric film series
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Francis Román (US)
Rejecting films is the toughest part of Roman’s job at SXSW.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal (Mexico and Iceland)
Bernal works for Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival and Reykjavik International Film Festival.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Kimberley Sheehan (UK)
She’s curating a programme at BFI Southbank this summer called Discomfort Movies, which examines films that trigger fear, stress and anxiety
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Paul Struthers (Australia)
He hunts outside typical channels for new discovers, with Letterboxd a favourite haunt.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Carmen Thompson (UK)
Thompson curates for festivals across the UK, Middle East and Africa from her home in Scotland
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Thong Kay Wee (Singapore)
On his radar are smaller festivals such as FIDMarseille, Museum of Modern Art’s New Directors/New Films, First International Film Festival, IndieLisboa and Jeonju.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Andrea Voges (South Africa)
Voges worked at the Durban International Film Festival in programme administration from 2010-14 before returning in 2023 in her current post.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Elsa Charbit (France)
She championed Weston Razooli’s ’Riddle Of Fire’ and Pham Thien An’s ’Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell’ in last year’s Quinzaine selection
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NewsScreen unveils 2024 Cannes film festival jury grid critics
This year’s critics include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Justin Chang from The New Yorker.
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News“We tried for a festival without controversy”: Cannes head tries to shift focus onto the films
Thierry Fremaux skirted questions about the impact of a potentially damaging #MeToo report but lamented impact of rumours.
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News‘Kneecap’ to open Galway as Irish festival selects Palestine as country of focus
The Irish-language hip-hop biopic won the audience award in Sundance’s Next strand.
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NewsDoha Film Institute Qumra Special 2024
The Doha Film Institute’s (DFI) incubator event that took place March 1-6.