GANS BUNG (last updated 17 Oct 2011)
AS FILM REVIEWER/CRITIC
main outlets
The Hollywood Reporter (Los Angeles)
Jigsaw Lounge (website)
Tribune (weekly political magazine, London)
regular contributor
The Afternoon Show (BBC Radio Newcastle)
Ekran (Ljubljana)
KINO! (Ljubljana)
FILM FESTIVALS
Co-Director
Bradford International Film Festival (UK)
Programming board
Crossing Europe F.F. (Linz, Austria)
Tromsø I.F.F. (Norway)
Kino Otok / Isola Cinema (Izola, Slovenia)
LIFFE (Ljubljana I.F.F.) (Slovenia)
Programme consultant
Viennale (Austria
Advisor
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)
Programme consultant, Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK) (2009-10)
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 : Tromsø 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)
2011 : Nordic Youth Film Festival (Tromsø, Norway – short films)
2011 : Palić F.F. (Serbia – press jury)
2011 : Locarno F.F. (Switzerland – main feature-film competition – FIPRESCI jury)
other non-UK film festivals attended (at least once in non-jury capacity)
Bergen (Norway)
Berlin (Berlinale, Germany)
Copenhagen (CPHPIX, Denmark)
Cottbus (Festival of Eastern European Cinema, Germany)
Marseille (FIDMarseille, France)
San Sebastián/Donostia (Spain)
Split (Festival of Mediterranean Cinema, Croatia)
Tallinn (Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia)
Turin (Italy)
Venice (Italy)
Wrocław (New Horizons FF, Poland)
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work has also appeared in
Archive (Bradford)
Camera Lucida (Podgorica, Montenegro)
Cinema Scope (Toronto)
City Life (Manchester)
City Pages (Minneapolis, MN)
The Crack (Newcastle)
Critical Quarterly (Manchester)
Daily Tiger (Rotterdam)
Dazed and Confused (London)
Dnevni Otok (Izola, Slovenia)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle)
De Filmkrant (Amsterdam)
Frieze (London)
Hotdog (London)
Impact (Huddersfield)
The Independent (London)
KINEČKO (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Kino Bambino (Newcastle)
Leeds Guide (Leeds)
Monocle (London)
MUBI - aka Auteurs Notebook (New York)
North Guide (Newcastle)
Odds On (London)
Racing Post (London)
Schokkend Nieuws (Shocking News, Amsterdam)
Senses of Cinema (Melbourne)
Sight and Sound (London)
South Shields Gazette (South Shields)
Der Standard (Vienna)
Star and Shadow cinema – launch booklet (Newcastle)
Time Out (London)
15+ reviews reproduced in annual Film Guide
The Times (London)
Zone 5300 (Rotterdam)
etc
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