All Future Leaders articles
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: film festival programmers and curators to watch
Screen International trains the Future Leaders spotlight on up-and-coming names among festival programmers and curators.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Jérémy Cottin & Mathilde Chassagneux (France)
The two Lyon natives took very different paths to joining the Institut Lumière.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Mouwafak Chourbagui (Egypt)
Chourbagui has been part of El Gouna Film Festival’s programming team since its launch in 2017.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Koen de Rooij (Netherlands)
de Rooij is programmer, feature films and short films, International Film Festival Rotterdam.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Rabih El Khoury (Lebanon & Germany)
He is especially passionate about Arab cinema, as well as cinema from the rest of the global south.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Kate Fitzpatrick (Australia)
Fitzpatrick is programmer at Melbourne International Film Festival.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Anja Fröhner (Switzerland)
Fröhner is head of programme and guests at Zürich Film Festival.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Gu Pengyuan (China)
In his role as Head of Programme at FIFF, he helped discover Lan Tian’s Southern Afternoon.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Viknesh Kobinathan (Singapore)
Kobinathan is film programmer is Singapore’s Asian Film Archive.
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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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