The twelfth edition of the FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project will last until the 22nd of October
A group of young and carefully selected critics from Central and Eastern Europe will be covering the festival and industry events, delivering film reviews and interviews for our partners – Cineuropa and FilmNewEurope.
FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project involves young film critics, who will be invited to the event and work under the editorial guidance FIPRESCI members Michael Pattison, British journalist working with numerous film and trade outlets like Sight & Sound, Fandor and Vice, along with Carmen Gray – Berlin-based journalist contributing to Dazed & Confused, Screen International and The Guardian. During the festival, they will meet high-profile film professionals, take part in the deliberations of the festival’s FIPRESCI jury and will give a special YOUNG FIPRESCI PRIZE for the best debut from Central and Eastern Europe.
The group of the qualified participants is as follows:
Monika Gimbutaitė, Lithuania
Monika Gimbutaitė, born in 1993 in Lithuania, graduated from Vilnius Academy of Arts, Art Theory and History programme. For three and a half years she held the position of a programme coordinator at European Film Forum Scanorama. She is currently working as culture journalist for 15min.lt, the second biggest news website in Lithuania.
Alexander Gabelia, Georgia
Georgian film journalist and activist. He's a political refugee from Abkhazia. Alexander studied History of Cinema and Cinematography at Ilia State University. He writes about cinema and culture in various outlets including Liberali.ge, Aha.ge and on-line magazine Magnettemag. He has collaborated with Tbilisi International Film Festival and Cinedoc Tblisi.
Arman Fatić, Bosnia
Arman Fatić is a Bosnian film critic and journalist, currently based in Slovenia where he is studying Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts in Maribor. He is a writer for several websites and magazines across like Ziher.hr, Snl.ba and Pulse.rs. His main fields of interest as a film critic are society problems and philosophicaland religious symbolism.
Jakub Wanat, Poland
Film-lover, cinema-goer, festival-fanatic. He is a LUX prize ambassador and a proud member of the Scope100 project. He has contributed to Cineuropa, naEkranie and student magazine Magiel. He was chosen as a Polish representative for the Venice Days jury at the 2017 Venice Film Festival.
Mikhail Morkin, Russia
Moscow-based film journalist. He is a chief editor and critic for Kinomania.ru. His work has appeared in The Hollywood Reporter Russia, RussoRosso and Film Sense. He also worked as programmer assistant at 2morrow Film Festival. Born in 1991, he holds a specialist’s degree in Linguistics from MSPU and is currently studying Transmedia Production.
Mina Stanikic, Serbia
Film and theatre critic based in Novi Sad, Serbia. She took up career as a cultural journalist starting in Kultur!Kokoška, slowly becoming focused on film and theatre criticism. Her articles have been published in various cultural magazines, mostly in Serbian language. Mina is alumna of 11th Talents Sarajevo. She also works at the International Short Film Festival Film Front.
Romanita Alexeev, Moldova
Romanița has started her journey in this industry by studying film production and acting at the University of Salford, United Kingdom. Later on, she returned to Moldova where she is directing an online TV series about Moldovan film industry.
