Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
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Glen W Norton @glenwnorton.bsky.social I teach Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University
Film, chess, backgammon, guitar, phenomenology, Lagavulin, Godard, Varda, Rohmer, Cavell, Bazin, Kracauer…
Lived Moments: Phenomenology, Neorealism, and the New Wave (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2025)
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Half Empty Cinema @halfemptyreviews.bsky.social “Most movies are basically fine” - me
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social writer. critic. essayist. on staff at New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://angelicabastien.com/
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Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social Irish Art Critic | The Irish Times, Frieze, Paper Visual Art | Philosophy & Aesthetics - Filosofia y Estética - Philosophie & Ästhetik
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
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🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
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[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. https://intransition.openlibhums.org/
Steve Boots (inactive) @steveboots.bsky.social Retired content creator
Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social College professor; feminist dad; he/him; @professorneil on TikTok; @professor_neil on Instagram
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Nicole Rosen @nikkivi.bsky.social Sociolinguist at UManitoba, gardener, potter, ultimate player, cook, mother of teens, sometimes violin player, dog lover, Pokémon trainer
Dr Alaina Schempp @alainaschempp.bsky.social Film Scholar. Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham. Screenwriter. TV watcher. She/her.
Megan Cruz | stoobs @jstoobs.bsky.social Film enjoyer
Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social Social work academic at University of Manchester, Morgan Centre https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/ and Creativity, Health & Wellbeing Lead for Creative Manchester https://www.creative.manchester.ac.uk 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Michael Franklin @mcbfranklin.bsky.social academic research & industrial application - film, risk, philosophy, economics, market devices | personal acct | https://ciciexeter.org/ | https://britishscreenforum.co.uk/film-data-initiative-pilot/ | https://mcbfranklin.com/
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre @cfmdcfilm.bsky.social Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre is Canada's foremost non-commercial distributor of independent and artists' #films. www.cfmdc.org
Dr Darren Gray @drdarrengray.bsky.social Researcher in Literature, Film and Cultural Studies | The Gothic, Horror, Technology, Disability | Currently writing ‘Horror and Disability’ for the University of Wales Press Horror Studies series.
Proudly neurodivergent (ADHD)
Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social A media scholar - jeffpooley.com/about
Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
Christy Lemire @christylemire.bsky.social Film critic, Breakfast All Day co-host, FilmWeek on LAist, 1986 Wheel of Fortune Teen Week champion, Nicolas' mom, runner, sober ⚓️
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G. Kevin Lally @gkevinlally.bsky.social Editor at Cineaste, former executive editor at Boxoffice and Film Journal International, author of Wilder Times: The Life of Billy Wilder, www.KevinLallyonFilm.com
Graham Fuller @grahamfuller.bsky.social Film Editor at The Arts Desk. Editorial Associate at Cineaste.
jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social film & culture & TV critic • associate programmer @mixnyc.bsky.social • repped by marya spence (janklow & nesbit)
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social I write about movies. Sometimes I talk about them. Usually just write. Award-winning screenwriter for what it's worth. Film instructor at the University of Colorado, Denver, but ridiculous social media presence definitely my own. http://walterchaw.com
Jaap Kooijman @jaapkooijman.bsky.social Associate professor Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Academic director ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis), author of Fabricating the Absolute Fake and De muziekfabriek, co-editor of The Richard Dyer Reader. www.absolutefake.com
Evelyn Kreutzer @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social Film/media scholar, video essay maker, feminist
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Postdoc at USI Lugano
Previously at Film University Babelsberg
PhD from Northwestern University
Paste Magazine @pastemagazine.bsky.social The heart and soul of music journalism.
farah @farahonfilm.bsky.social just one more thing… 🇩🇿 curating, editing, & writing abt film, TV, & culture
Queline (kikikrazed) @queline.bsky.social 📺 Video essayist: BFI, GKIDS, youtube.com/@kikikrazed
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Jemma Saunders (Penny) @jemsaunders1.bsky.social Film & TV placement person by day, audio-visual PhD student researching Birmingham's representation on screen by night (both UoB). Videographic criticism, documentary, TV, history, locations, employability... and being a Mum.
Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social New here. Professor of cinema arts; director of Cary Comes Home Festival; co-founder of Angela Carter Society; chief editor of Screenworks; filmmaker, lover of cinemas & their curtains. #BristolCityOfFilm Views my own. https://linktr.ee/charlottecrofts
Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social researcher, fact-checker: extremism, conspiracies, US history
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assistant editor, Cineaste
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Elizabeth Weitzman @eweitzman.bsky.social Film Critic for The Wrap & Time Out. Author of the Hollywood history RENEGADE WOMEN IN FILM & TV. Member, NYFCC & CCA
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wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
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Drew Morton @damorton.bsky.social Professor, videographic critic and co-editor of [in]Transition, author of Panel to the Screen, gamer, runner, bass player, wiener dog keeper.
Los Angeles/Texas
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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social Pretty into cats, classical Hollywood, DVDs, and the beach. Currently writing on adaptations of Marilyn Monroe as a character. Author of _Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe_. Co-editor of _Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend_.
Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social Prof Media/Film | Author: Imagining the Method http://bit.ly/43QVOa4 | Research: acting, celebrity, screen histories, Arctic media | he/him
Barbara Zecchi @barbarazecchi.bsky.social Film Studies professor at the University of Massachusetts. Cat lady with dogs. Videoessayist trained at Middlebury College. Author of books on women filmmakers. Co-editor of [in]Transition. Member of the Film Academy of Spain. From Venice.
Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
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Westdoc Online @westdoc.bsky.social We interview the best documentary filmmakers in the world about their past, current, and upcoming films. Follow us at www.westdoc.net to see all the past 160+ episodes and all the new ones too!
Taylor Green @taylorgreensky.bsky.social Joined Bluesky November 2024. Curator, Author 12 Books/Shallow Seas mybook.to/IgCB7G
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Frank Gaimari @frankgaimari.bsky.social Best-selling author, film critic, and screenwriter. Award-winning scripts: Vincent and Paul: Unspoken Brotherhood, Mary Reid, and La Famiglia. I love movies and my two golden retrievers.
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Marc Olivier @dullboy237.bsky.social Professor (film and lit), series editor Icons of Horror (Indiana UP). Love and support the marginalized. 🏳️🌈 he/him #horrorsky
Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social Philosopher, husband, dad, teacher, "leftist," potty-mouth, certified AI hater, and pedagogical chaos agent. Aspiring to be the C.M. Punk of higher education. Distinguished, or so I'm told.
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Jay Gamble @drjaydrno.bsky.social I read the news today, oh boy.
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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.
Variety @variety.com The business of entertainment.
@filmlinc.bsky.social @filmlinc.bsky.social FLC is a nonprofit organization that celebrates cinema as an essential art form and fosters a vibrant home for film culture to thrive. 🎥
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The Criterion Collection @criterion.bsky.social Since 1984, we’ve dedicated ourselves to gathering and publishing the greatest films from around the world. criterion.com
scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social Understands comics… mostly… Now on sale: THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, co-created with the legendary Raina Telgemeier! https://bit.ly/CartoonistClub And I'm also working on a massive book about visual communication; learn more at scottmccloud.com.
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Marta Timmer @martatimmer.bsky.social Artist working with glitch aesthetics to explore themes of beauty, memory, decay, and emotion.
Stephen Hunt @heyitsstevehunt.bsky.social Gentleman, Scholar, Acrobat.
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Akstanwyck @akstanwyck.bsky.social Anne Thompson, editor at large at IndieWire, cohost of weekly podcast Screen Talk, author of The $11 Billion Year.
Mike Larsen @mlarsen27.bsky.social
Anthony V @theavclub.bsky.social Working at the intersection of technology and cities in my research and teaching at Columbia (fmr. UMich + MIT). Centering people + inspiring magic 🔬 🪄
Minolta1034 @minolta1034.com I make stuff on the internet.
Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social Radical left queer Mormon. Labour journalist. Disabled. ADHD. Autism. Lemon lover. He/they.
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Philippe Gauthier @philippe-gauthier.bsky.social Energy transition and ecological redirection. Research, consulting and teaching. Science writer. Trained in political science and management. Living in Montréal, Canada.
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