FIPRESCI Young Critics Warsaw Project
TUTORS of FIPRESCI Young Critics Warsaw Project
Amber Wilkinson is a journalist with more than 20 years experience. She is the co-founder and editorial director of UK-based website Eye For Film. Her byline has appeared in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald and Filmmaker Magazine among others. She also contributes as a freelance film critic on BBC Radio Scotland. She has run several FIPRESCI young critics' workshops and mentored student critics at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2018 and 2019.
Tommaso Tocci is based in Italy, where he works as a film critic and translator covering film festivals across Europe for international publications. He has also worked for Berlinale Talents and for the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and he currently serves as Co-Programmer for the Saas-Fee Film Festival in Switzerland.
Participants
Diana Smeu is a student of Screenwriting and Films Studies at National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest. She collaborates as a film critic with Acoperișul de Sticlă, AperiTIFF, Festivalists and FILM MENU, where she also organises screenings and moderates discussions. She coordinates the annual SUPER film workshop for teenagers. She is passionate about audiovisual criticism and has created a video essay about kisses in Hollywood. Interested in Indian cinema, she is currently researching the influence of the Hindi films in Romania, during the communist period. Alumni of Sarajevo Talents.
Maria Dybcio is a journalist from Poland. Her reportages and film reviews were published along others in "Przekrój", "Gazeta.pl Weekend" and "Sedno". She graduated from the Polish Reportage School and from the University of Warsaw (she studied Sociology and Eastern European Studies). She is always between two cities: Warsaw and Lisbon, loves 60’s cinema of Poland and Portugal but also contemporary Eastern European movies.
Mateusz Tarwacki, born in 1993. Film critic. He graduated with a specialization in "visual culture" at the Institute of Polish Culture of the University of Warsaw. He published, among others, on the “Notebook for 6 Weeks” and in the scientific magazine "View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture". Since March 2018, he has been running a bilingual website dedicated to cinema: zawieszony. He deals with artistic cinema – neomodernism, works created by women and socially involved cinema. Having experience of a viewer, equal to every other recipient, is most important for him. Cinephile. In 2019 alone, he participated in nine film festivals (including the Locarno Film Festival and the Warsaw Film Festival).
Mladen Pechevski is a film industry freelancer currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2019, he was a jury member of the Giornate degli Autori section at the 76th Venice International Film Festival and was subsequently heavily involved in organizing the autumn edition of the Sofia International Film Festival for Students. In 2020, he worked as an assistant consultant for the Giornate degli Autori section at the 77th Venice International Film Festival. Mladen is passionate about European cinema and would like to further acquire first-hand experience covering international festivals as a film critic.
Georgiana Mușat is a film critic established in Bucharest. She just finished the Film Studies M.A. at the “I.L. Caragiale” National University of Theatre and Film. She is a weekly columnist for Scena9 and also collaborates with Acoperișul de Sticlă, Films in Frame, FILM Magazine, and is one of the authors of Realitatea Ficțiunii. Ficțiunea Realului, as well as Romanian Cinema Inside Out: Insights on Film Culture, Industry and Politics 1912-2019. Currently working on various video essays and her thesis on female robots.
