Festival

Cecilia Cenciarelli is in charge of the research and special projects department at the Cineteca di Bologna, where she has been working as an archivist since 2000. For several years, she has supervised the digitization, cataloguing, and research for Charles...

Michelle Parkerson is an award-winning filmmaker based in Washington, D.C., whose work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and the American Film Institute. She has documented the lives of LGBTQ icon Audre Lorde (A Litany...

Steve Massa is the author of Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy and Lame Brains and Lunatics: The Good, The Bad, and The Forgotten of Silent Comedy. He has organized and curated comedy film programs for the Museum of...

Nicholas Elliott has been the New York correspondent for Cahiers du cinéma since 2009. He is a programmer for the Locarno Film Festival and a contributing editor for film for BOMB magazine. His writing on film has appeared in Film...

Michał Oleszczyk is an assistant professor of film at University of Warsaw, as well as the former artistic director of Gdynia Film Festival. He has written on film for Cineaste, RogerEbert.com, and other outlets. He has coedited a monograph on...

Thom Powers is the documentary programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival, a cofounder of the DOC NYC festival, the host of the podcast Pure Nonfiction, and the author of the book Mondo Documentary.

John Rockwell was a longtime arts critic and editor for the New York Times and the founding director of the Lincoln Center Festival. The author of four books (one about Lars von Trier), he is now a freelance writer and...

Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan is a New York–based film writer and curator, and U.S. programmer and selection committee member of the Venice Film Festival. From 2003 to 2006, she was the codirector of the Torino Film Festival. Among her books are...

Canadian writer and director Panos Cosmatos’s first feature, the hypnotic and fantastically effective sci-fi meditation Beyond the Black Rainbow, premiered at this year’s TriBeCa Film Festival and has since been picked up by Magnet Films.

Michael Almereyda’s most recent film, Tesla, was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. His previous films include Nadja, Hamlet, William Eggleston in the Real World, Experimenter, and Marjorie Prime.