Festival

Bruce Wagner is a screenwriter and novelist. At the Cannes Film Festival, Julianne Moore won the Best Actress award for her portrayal of Havana Segrand in Maps to the Stars (2014), written by Wagner and directed by David Cronenberg.

Brian Hu is associate professor of Television, Film, and New Media at San Diego State University. He is also the artistic director of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, and the author of Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong...

Nataleah Hunter-Young is assistant professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, and international programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival, responsible for feature selections from Africa and Arab West Asia.

Shai Heredia is a filmmaker, a curator, and the founder of Experimenta, the international festival for experimental cinema in India. Her programs and award-winning films have been exhibited worldwide, and she is on the curatorial team of the Berlinale Forum...

Film critic Stéphane Delorme was editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 2009 to 2020. He was a programmer at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival when Daddy Longlegs made its world premiere there in 2009.

Markus Nornes is Professor Emeritus of Asian Cinema at the University of Michigan and a specialist in Japanese film, documentary, and translation theory. He is also a filmmaker and programmer for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. His most recent...

Odie Henderson is a film critic for RogerEbert.com and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. He has contributed essays to such publications as Slate, Vulture, the Village Voice, and Slant Magazine, and has appeared on NPR’s Pop...

Grady Hendrix is the cofounder of Subway Cinema and the New York Asian Film Festival, as well as the author, most recently, of These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World (with Chris Poggiali).

Yasmina Price is a New York–based writer and film programmer completing a PhD at Yale University. She is devoted to visual culture from the African continent and diaspora, anticolonial cinema, and the experimental work of women filmmakers. Her programming has...

Devika Girish is the coeditor of Film Comment magazine and a Talks programmer at the New York Film Festival. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Sight and Sound, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, and...