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Lydia Ogwang is a writer, programmer, and cultural worker based in Toronto and New York.
Walter Chaw is the senior film critic for FilmFreakCentral.net, with bylines in the New York Times, LA Weekly, the New York Post’s Decider.com, and NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour. His book on the films of Walter Hill is due in...
Edward Baron Turk is a professor emeritus of the humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books on the performing arts include Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema (Harvard University Press), Hollywood Diva:...
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.
Karen Han is a culture critic and screenwriter whose work has been published in outlets such as the New York Times, the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, VICE, the Village Voice, New York magazine, and Slate. She is the author of the...
Bilal Qureshi is an essayist and broadcaster whose criticism and reporting have appeared in Film Quarterly, the Washington Post, and the New York Times and on the BBC and NPR.
Adam Piron (Kiowa/Mohawk) is a filmmaker and programmer based in Southern California. He currently serves as director of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program and is a cofounder of COUSIN, a collective supporting Indigenous artists expanding the form of film.
Markus Nornes is professor of Asian cinema at the University of Michigan, where he specializes in Japanese film, documentary, and translation theory. He is also a filmmaker and film-festival programmer. His most recent book, the open-access Brushed in Light, is...
Jordan Cronk is a film critic and founder of the Acropolis Cinema screening series in Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sight & Sound, and other publications. He is...
Maryam Kazeem is a writer and the founder of IRANTI, a publishing project based in Nigeria. Her work has been published in platforms including Literary Hub, Catapult, Joyland, Apogee, and Another Gaze. She is currently at work on her first...