Category: Film Festivals
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Featured on Variety and Rotten Tomatoes!

A double-whammy this time from over the week-end. Variety drafted an article covering our new Executive Board for GALECA: The Society for LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and I was included in it as Secretary. I’ve always thought it would be great to have my name in Variety somewhere, but I never imagined it would happen like…
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Sundance Press Inclusion Initiative applications now open!

Highly recommend folks to apply, if they haven’t already. Please note that you have to submit both a press accreditation application and the PII application to be considered. Full press release below: ============================================================== The 2026 Sundance Film Festival is taking place January 22-February 1 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, with a selection…
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GALECA: Crimson Honors announced!

Today, I just hosted our orientation meeting for the Crimson Honors, a film criticism scholarship for LGBTQ undergraduates in the US. This is my first year running the competition; last year, I served as a judge. This also marks the first year that we’re hosting a mentorship component. The goal is to make sure that…
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Screenshot Asia Short Film Focus: Taste of Pomegranate

I’ve been looped in as the Programming Director for “Taste of Pomegranate,” Pittsburgh’s first-ever short film festival dedicated to cinema from South West Asia and North Africa (SWAANA)! Very thankful to Ankita Deb for putting me in touch, Reza Etemadinia for his leadership, and Vicken Margossian for his vision. Poster below made by me. Description…
