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
Anna Sołowiej
Poland
Currently in the second year of her BA in theatre studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She represented Kino Nowe Horyzonty during this year's edition of 27 Times Cinema as a jury member for the 18th edition of Giornate degli Autori at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. She is a Lux Audience Award ambassador and a Barbican Young Film Programmers alumnus.
She is currently focusing her academic research on theatre archives for her collaborative curatorial project on the Polish theatre herstories.
Nikola Jović
Serbia
Nikola (born in 1995.) is a senior undergraduate in the Department of Philosophyand a film critic from Serbia. He is also one of the founders of the film studiesdiscussion group at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, which aims to examinethe relation of film to different disciplines within the humanities, throughinterdisciplinary means of analysis. As a film critic, he has been a full-timecontributor to web-magazine Autostoperski vodič koz fantastiku, and over theyears has contributed to other web-portals such as Oblakoder and Kultiviši se.His philosophy papers on the subject of philosophy of media have beenrepresented in different publications.
Dora Leu
Romania
Dora is currently pursuing a master’s degree in film studies at UNATC inBucharest, having formerly graduated with a degree in film direction. She is alsograduating with a second BA in history of art. As a critic, she is the coordinatingeditor of UNATC’s cinema magazine, FILM MENU, and collaborates with otherRomanian film publications, including Acoperișul de Sticlă and Films in Frame. Hermain passions include Japanese cinema, music videos, and post-punk Irish bandsand she is currently researching her thesis on the relationship between cinema andrecent limited television series.
Luka Vlaho
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Luka was born in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1998. He is currently a graduatestudent in the department of film and theatre directing at the Academy of Performing Arts inSarajevo. In April 2021, Luka finished shooting his diploma short film Justine, which iscurrently in post-production. He first ecountered writing film critiques in 2019 on a criticism course at the Academy and since then he has been writing almost constantly. In February 2021, Luka became a permanent member of editorial staff of an online film and theatre magazine Iz Off-a Novi Sad and has also published couple of film texts on http://www.filmofil.ba/. He has attended critic's workshops at the European Film Festival Palić in 2020 and Montenegro Film Festival in Herceg-Novi in 2021. Luka speaks English fluently and can communicate in German. He currently resides in Mostar.
Maria Tokmasheva
Russia
Maria is a film journalist working as a newsfeed editor and a reporter for the one of the most popular national Russian movie websites Kino-Teatr.Ru (https://www.kino-teatr.ru/) Before she worked for Russian information agencies TASS and RIA and professional portals (Kinopoisk, Proficinema, etc). She also writes about web series for the Digital Reporter https://digitalreporter.ru/ website and, being a part of the first Russian web series festival Realist Web Fest, makes up its program, manages the festival’s schedule and communicates with the Russian web series creators community.
Antoni Konieczny
Poland
Antoni was born in Poland. At 16, he moved to Bulgaria, where he completed a high-school film course. He enjoys crafting short films as much as diving into film criticism and theory through his reviews, podcasts, and academic papers. He launched a monthly newsletter with a friend and exploited the outlet to inundate his school with pop culture-related stories. Interned at the screenwriting department at Nu Boyana Film Studios, Antoni wrote for the paper ‘Klaps’ at the 46th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. He has a soft spot for horror cinema and his favorite filmmakers include (early) Tim Burton, Richard Linklater, and Edgar Wright. Next year, he will begin his undergraduate studies in film.