The Criterion Collection
Aboubakar Sanogo is an associate professor in film studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is currently writing on the history of documentary in Africa and the cinema of Med Hondo. He was instrumental in establishing the African Film Heritage...
Stephanie Dennison is a full professor of Brazilian studies and the director of the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Remapping Brazilian Film Culture in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge,...
Adrian Jonathan Pasaribu is the chief editor and cofounder of Cinema Poetica, a collective of film critics, activists, and researchers in Indonesia. He lives in Jakarta and works as a freelance writer.
Mayukh Sen is the author of Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star (2025), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. He teaches film and television reporting and criticism at New York University and...
Alexandra Hidalgo is an award-winning Venezuelan filmmaker, theorist, and editor whose documentaries have been official selections for film festivals in fourteen countries and screened at universities around the United States. Her videos and writing have been featured by the Hollywood...
So Mayer is the author of Truth & Dare (2023), A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (2020), Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (2015), and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love (2009), and the coeditor of...
Jeff Chang is a cultural critic and the author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post–Civil Rights America, and We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race...
Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator whose third book of poetry, Music for the Dead and Resurrected, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Born in Minsk, Belarus, she teaches at Cornell University and writes in English and Belarusian.
Ela Bittencourt works as a critic and curator in the U.S. and Brazil and consults for a number of international film festivals. She also runs the film site Lyssaria.
Jonathan Owen is a writer and researcher specializing in Eastern and Central European cinema, avant-gardes, and cult film. He is the author of Avant-Garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties (2011) and the coeditor of A Reader...