AS FILM REVIEWER/CRITIC
main outlets
The Hollywood Reporter (trade magazine, Los Angeles) – daily, weekly and online editions
Jigsaw Lounge (website)
Tribune (weekly political magazine, London)
The Auteurs Notebook (website) including monthly column, Pages from a Cold Island
regular contributor
KINO! (Ljubljana)
Senses of Cinema (website)
The Afternoon Show (BBC Radio Newcastle)
recent contributor
De Filmkrant (Amsterdam)
Monocle (monthly lifestyle magazine, London)
FILM FESTIVALS
International Programming Consultant
Bradford International Film Festival (UK)
Programmer
Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK)
Programming board
Tromso I.F.F. (Norway)
Kino Otok / Isola Cinema (Izola, Slovenia)
Ljubljana I.F.F. (Slovenia)
Programme consultant
Crossing Europe F.F. (Linz, Austria)
Imagine (aka Amsterdam Fantastic F.F., Netherlands)
Indielisboa (Portugal)
also
Chairman and chief programmer, Sunderland F.F. (2003, 2005)
Chief competition selector, Bucharest F.F. (Romania) (2007)
film-festival jury service
2002 : Leeds I.F.F. (UK – main feature-film competition)
2002 : Ljubljana I.F.F. (Slovenia – main feature-film competition)
2004 : Tromso I.F.F. (Norway – main feature-film competition – FIPRESCI jury)
2005 : Leeds I.F.F. (UK – short-film competition)
2006 : I.F.F. Rotterdam (Netherlands – main feature-film competition – FIPRESCI jury)
2006 : Bradford F.F. (UK – short-film competition)
2007 : Bradford F.F. (UK – short-film competition)
2007 : Crossing Europe F.F. (Linz, Austria – main feature-film competition)
2008 : Gothenburg I.F.F. (Sweden – FIPRESCI jury)
2008 : IndieLisboa F.F. (Portugal – main feature-film competition)
2008 : Viennale (Austria – FIPRESCI jury)
2009 : Cluj - Transilvania I.F.F. (Romania – 'Romanian Days' jury)
2009 : Ljubljana I.F.F. (Slovenia – shorts competition)
other non-UK film festivals attended (in non-jury capacity)
Bergen (Norway)
Berlinale (Berlin, Germany)
Cottbus (Festival of Eastern European Cinema, Germany)
San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain)
Split (Croatia – Festival of Mediterranean Cinema)
Tallinn, Estonia (aka Black Nights Film Festival)
Turin (Italy)
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previous regular/semi-regular journalistic outlets
City Life (magazine, Manchester)
Impact (magazine, Huddersfield)
Cinema Scope (magazine, Toronto)
Time Out (magazine, London)
15+ reviews reproduced in annual Film Guide
The Independent (newspaper, London)
work has also appeared occasionally in
Archive (Bradford)
City Pages (Minneapolis)
The Crack (Newcastle)
Critical Quarterly (Manchester)
Daily Tiger (IFFR - Rotterdam)
Dazed and Confused (London)
Dnevni Otok (Izola, Slovenia)
Ekran (Ljubljana)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle)
Frieze (London)
Hotdog (London)
Kino Bambino (Newcastle)
Leeds Guide (Leeds)
Monocle (London)
North Guide (Newcastle)
Odds On (London)
Racing Post (London)
Schokkend Nieuws (Shocking News, Amsterdam)
South Shields Gazette (South Shields)
Der Standard (Vienna)
Star and Shadow cinema – launch booklet (Newcastle)
The Times (London)
Zone 5300 (Rotterdam)
etc
