Contact / NY CV
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Public/on-stage interviews
Olivier Assayas (Bradford 2012)
James Benning (several)
Alan Bennett (Bradford 2007)
Sir Michael Caine (Viennale 2012)
Sir Tom Courtenay (Bradford 2013)
Brian Cox (Bradford 2014 & Palić, Serbia 2018)
Willem Dafoe (Sarajevo 2025)
Abel Ferrara (several)
Jonathan Franzen (Vienna 2025)
William Friedkin (Transatlantyk, Łódź, Poland 2020) [online]
Sir Christopher Hampton (Palić, Serbia 2017)
Ethan Hawke (Karlovy Vary 2021)
Werner Herzog (Viennale 2022)
Radu Jude & Sergei Loznitsa (Karlovy Vary 2021)
Barry Levinson (Karlovy Vary 2018)
Ken Loach & Paul Laverty (Karlovy Vary 2017)
Sergei Loznitsa (Sarajevo 2022)
Sergei Loznitsa & Cristi Puiu (Astra, Sibiu, Romania 2014)
John Carroll Lynch (Viennale 2017)
Bill Nichols (IDFA Amsterdam 2014)
Alex Ross Perry (CPH PIX 2015)
Philippe Sands & Horst von Wächter (Viennale 2015)
Steven Soderbergh (Karlovy Vary 2024)
Sir Jackie Stewart (Viennale 2013)
Whit Stillman (IndieLisboa 2015)
Dame Barbara Windsor (Bradford 2012)
Films as actor
1. The Souvenir (UK 2019 feature-length) dir. Joanna Hogg. as “Radio Interviewer”
2. Soldier Monika (Austria 2024 feature-length) dir. Paul Poet. as “The Anglo-Saxon Axis of Evil”
3. Dracula (Romania/Austria 2025 feature-length) dir. Radu Jude. as “Neal”
4. Ikonov (Austria 2026 tbc feature-length) dir. Aleksey Lapin. as “Neil (film-festival director)”
Films as director
1. Vilniu Detroit (2017 short) premiere at Kino Pavasaris film festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
2. Just the Same?: Stormy Monday 30 Years On (2017 short) video-essay for Arrow Films blu-ray
3. Towing Dispatch (2018 short) premiere at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
4. Rihaction (2019 feature-length) premiere in “Innovatives Kino” competition at Diagonale film festival, Graz, Austria
5. Men on the Chessboard: The Hidden Pleasures of The Game (2020 short) video-essay for Arrow Films blu-ray
6. Point d’impact (2022 mid-length) premiere at Cinema Massimo, National Cinema Museum, Turin, Italy
7. ATM: You Have 30 Seconds to Withdraw (2023 short) premiere in ‘Eject’ competition at interfilm film festival, Berlin
8. Fictional Breweries (2020/2024 short) premiere at Kino Otok film festival, Izola, Slovenia
9. A Bridget Too Far (2025 short) premiere at UnderDox festival, Munich
10. Peter Fonda, for Precedent (2025 short) premiere at UnderDox festival, Municj
C.V.
EMPLOYMENT (current)
2025— ReCNTR interdisciplinary research centre, Leiden University (NL): consultant/advisor
2024— EUNIC Film Festival, Vienna: artistic director
2018— Vienna Shorts international film festival, Austria: Head of Selection, Austrian Competition. Presenter of opening and closing ceremonies. On-stage interviews, Q+As, etc.
2009— Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz, Austria: Presenter/co-presenter of opening ceremony since 2009; on-stage interviews, Q+As, etc; programming consultant.
2000— Freelance film-critic/journalist
regular reviewer of new films for trade-publications The Hollywood Reporter (2008-2020) and Screen / Screen Daily/ Screen International (2020-2024). frequent contributor to Sight & Sound since 2010.
also Senses of Cinema, Little White Lies, Modern Times Review, Indiewire, MUBI Notebook, KINO! (Slovenia), Tribune (UK), Frieze, Galerie, Filmmaker (New York), RogerEbert.com, UK Critics’ Circle website, etc.
Film-programmes curated (selection)
2015: Dokufest, Prizren, Kosovo: ‘Uncharted States of America,’ independent US documentaries since 2005
2016: Tuškanac cinema, Zagreb, Croatia: ‘This Note’s For You,’ current/recent avant-garde shorts
2017: Pančevo Film Festival, Serbia: ‘Shimmering Beasts,’ a survey of recent Québécois cinema
2019: Metro cinema (Austrian Film Archive) Vienna: 50 Years of Punk Cinema [with Paul Poet]
2022: FIDMarseille: A Ukrainian Youth [in collaboration with festival programmers]
2022: Martovski film festival, Belgrade: Vienna Shorts selection
2023: Alternative Film/Video, Belgrade: international competition
workshops for young/emerging film critics, as mentor
2015-2023: European Film Festival Palić, Serbia (solo or in collaboration with Víctor Paz Morandeira)
2018: Critics’ Campus, Melbourne IFF (as part of mentoring team)
2019: GoCritic!, Karlovy Vary IFF
2023: GoCritic!, Fest Anča International Animation Festival (Žilina, Slovakia)
2023: Scanorama, Vilnius (MIOB’s LAB of Cultural, Creative and Festival Journalism)
2024: Kutaisi International Short Film Festival, Georgia
2024: GoCritic!, Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2025: Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia & Herzegovina
2025: GoCritic!, Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenia
additional/occasional work at film-festivals (intros/Q+As/moderations and/or programming consultation)
American Documentary Film Festival (Palm Springs, California)
Astra Documentary Festival (Sibiu, Romania)
CPH PIX (Copenhagen),
Edinburgh IFF (UK)
FICUNAM (Mexico City, Mexico)
IndieLisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
Neue Heimatfilm Festival (Freistadt, Austria)
New Horizons FF (Wroclaw, Poland)
Kino Otok (Izola, Slovenia)
OsloPix (Norway)
Tromsø IFF (Norway). moderation of closing ceremony (2024, 2025); on-stage interviews during industry section (2024).
etc
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EMPLOYMENT (previous)
2010—2025: Viennale (Vienna International Film Festival) Vienna, Austria: Programme consultant.
2018—2023: The Norwegian Short Film Festival (Kortfilmfestivalen), Grimstad, Norway: Consultant/programmer, International Competition, etc
2013—2021: European Film Festival, Palić, Serbia: International Programmer, 2017-21 (with responsibility for “Young Spirit of Europe” sidebar and “Parallels & Encounters” competition.)
2005—2015: Bradford International Film Festival, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK. (Director, 2011-15.)
2003—2005: Sunderland Film Festival (director)
1996-2011: Official Racehorse Handicapper (flat-racing), British Horseracing Authority
1994-1995: Journalist/Reporter, The Evening Chronicle newspaper (Newcastle, UK)
1993-1994: Journalist/Reporter/Analyst, The Racing Post newspaper (London)
1992-1993: Bookseller, Waterstones bookshop (Durham, UK)
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Professional organisations
2014— UK Critics’ Circle.
2003— Fipresci (International Federation of Film Critics). President of Fipresci juries including Berlinale (2015) and Venice (2017). Member of panel for European Film Academy Discovery Award 2014-16.