Archive 2022

Constantin Pârvulescu is associate professor of film studies and director of the Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts Studies at Babeș-Bolyai University. With a PhD from University of Minnesota, he taught at universities in Europe and North America. His books and articles explore the relationship between audiovisual texts and politics, history and economic issues. He frequently writes on Romanian and Eastern European film and jazz, and is a member of the Romanian Filmmakers' Union. At Babeș-Bolyai University he teaches Romanian contemporary cinema. His publications include „Orphans of the East: Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject” (Indiana University Press, 2015), „Global Finance on Screen: From Wall Street to Side Street” (Routledge, 2017), and „A Companion to the Historical Film” (Blackwell-Wiley, 2013).

Michael Stewart is the founding director of Open City Documentary Festival, London and Director of Open City Docs School at University College London (UCL) where he runs a Masters in Ethnographic and Documentary Film. Currently housing four Studios, this Masters provides training for nearly one hundred students in Cinematic non-fiction; Broadcast Documentary; Cinematic Reportage and Immersive Factual Storytelling (including VR). Michael is a trained anthropologist and spent a number of years working in British Television as consultant and then producer.

Giorgi Gogiberidze was born in 1974 in Batumi. He has a degree in Film Directing from the Batumi State University of Arts, where he is now a professor. Since 2006 he is the director of the Batumi International Arthouse Film Festival. Since 2012 he is the editor and presenter of White Quadrat, a program on cinema broadcasted by Adjara TV. He is also the founder and artistic director of the Batumi International Short Film Festival Lemon. He has directed various short films and promotional videos. In 2020 he received an award from the Georgian Film Academy for his contribution to the development of Georgian cinema.

Iulia Popovici is a performing arts critic and curator based in Bucharest. She has published extensively about documentary practices, the alternative performing arts scene, collectives and artists in Romania and Eastern Europe, the social challenges of contemporary arts and the shifting in working practices. In the last two years, she has researched in the archives the political history of Romanian theatre. The most recent publication is “Metaphor. Concept. Protest. Performance Art in Romania and Moldova” (with Raluca Voinea; Idea Design & Print/tranzit.ro, 2017).

Born in 1993 in Braşov, Flavia Dima has a degree in Journalism from the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and one in Visual Studies from the University of Bucharest. She works as a film critic, cinema curator and translator. She in an alum of Berlinale Talents and Locarno Critics Academy and she is associate curator for the short film and feature film competitions of Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival. Her articles have been published by FILM MENU, Films in Frame, Echinox, VICE, Variety, MUBI Notebook and Kinoscope, among others.