Young Critics Workshop 2019

I’m a critic, audiovisual producer and cultural journalist born in San José, Costa Rica. In high school I began writing about film and music on the Internet and have not stopped ever since. I’m the web editor for Krinégrafo: Cine y Crítica in Costa Rica, and have published work in La Nación (Costa Rica), Costa Rica Festival Internacional de Cine’s webpage, Revista Correspondencias (Mexico) and Mediapart (France). I was part of the Critic’s Lab of Costa Rica’s Festival Internacional de Cine in 2016 and 2017 and part of the Berlinale Talent Press at Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara 2018.

I’m 19 years old and a passionate student at the University of Antwerp. I’ve just started my third bachelor year in theatre, film, literature and English. My love for film has exponentially grown over the last two years. Cinematic experiences at university, Cinea’s Zomerfilmcollege and a London & Film summer school at King’s College London have moulded me into a true cinephile. Honest, pure, touching and visually poetical films make me fall head over heels in love. More than once I find myself admiring a film’s photography without paying attention to its plot line.

I am a London-based freelance critic and programmer specialising in Classic Hollywood and online cinema culture. I regularly contribute to Seventh Row, and have appeared in Little White Lies and Mubi Notebook.

My name is Ioanna Micha and I am a literature graduate from Greece. Other than my love of animals, I discovered my love of films around the age of 12, and have been using people’s taste in film to see if they’re cool ever since. Seeing that my fascination with cinema wasn’t just a phase, I’ve written for online publications, (mostly) rambling about binary thought, and have penned academic essays on Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), George Cukor’s Gaslight (1944), Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca (1997) etc. Overall, I aim to expand my understanding of cinema as art to improve my writing as a critic.

I’m a writer and filmmaker currently based in Brooklyn, NY. I’m particularly interested in non-fiction and hybrid works, especially those that eschew traditional narrative forms. My writing and short essayistic works seek to engage with the impacts of capitalism and colonialism on image production and consumption, the proliferation of images in contemporary media culture, and the representation of the poetic across forms of media. I completed my A.A. at Clark College in 2018, and will complete my B.A. in Media and Documentary Forms at The New School in May 2020. My work can be found at satyasai.xyz.