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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social Award-winning film critic for The Wrap. Co-host of The Critically Acclaimed Network. LAFCA. CCA. GALECA. Ace. He/Him. 🎃
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I like making movies, I like taking pictures. You can find my photography/videography on instagram @LizWhitmere
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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social Leftist. Cinephile. Video game person. Shares initials with Cayce Pollard.
Marie Geist, Baby Guitar Hero @mariepgeist.bsky.social Full-time student of Japanese language; sometimes translator for hire. Dale Cooper's imaginary girlfriend; electronic music nerd. Land back. ACAB includes SWERFs and TERFs. Why TF was Link banned again?
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Vince @vincetinguely.bsky.social I've been a writer since I was 11 (grade V). Spent a lot of time in the Montreal literary / performance / zine / arts scene. Moved to Winnipeg in 2019. Still writing!
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Priya Lalvani @priya-lalvani.bsky.social Professor of disability studies and inclusive education. Cynical psychologist. Interests: anti-ableism curriculum, narrative identity, motherhood and disability.
Vygotsky was right about everything!
Ande[']s Candies @abobandrea.myatproto.social she/any [non-neuter, non-weaponized]
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Jared Gilman @realjaredgilman.bsky.social Actor guy and stuff, SAG-AFTRA. Maybe u saw me in moonrise kingdom, paterson, it takes three, susie searches, elsa & fred, lol angry neighbors, other stuff. Hopefully you’ll see me in 5 Days At Zooblin’s Bar and Steakhouse, and some other short films.
Ariel Looper @ariellooper.com • Professor of Film Studies
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• Letters to Espiridiona Film
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Nathan Murray @holmesandgardens.bsky.social Decent English prof studying AI and pedagogy, average musician, excellent nitpicker
Metonym @metonymchannel.bsky.social Making videos about the deep end of fashion. Bringing out the art within fashion and learning to appreciate it.
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Eric Veillette @veilletteinto.bsky.social Arts writer & media producer | Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, CBC Arts, Radio-Canada, Severin Films | Writing a book about going to the movies in Toronto (In the Dark, ECW Press, 2027) | Editor: The Downtown Theatre | Franco-ontarien
Liam Lacey @liamlacey.bsky.social Film critic, formerly Globe and Mail, currently Original-cin.ca and POV Magazine
J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer
📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
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Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social Gen X spinster aunt. Idaho to Louisville. Corporate drone from 8-5; devastatingly quiet from 5-8. Learning Mandarin. Going for a hike.
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Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer @eldashraheb.bsky.social https://www.abeelraheb.com
Egyptian-Irish-American
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Desperately trying to learn Spanish
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
Susan Kerns (She/Her) @ssk8.bsky.social MKE Film & Mke Film Festival. Professor, writer, filmmaker. Refocus: The Films of Susan Seidelman out now from Edinburgh UP.
Chantal Braganza @chantalbraganza.bsky.social STORY OF YOUR MOTHER, 2025
Elamin Abdelmahmoud @elamin.bsky.social I’m doing good, I’m on some new shit
tina romina favayedi @atouchofthepoet.bsky.social Neé Tina Hassannia.
I used to write about movies. Now I write them.
Jennifer Mair @nfb-jennifer.bsky.social National Film Board of Canada publicist
Max Carpenter @solexyoghurt.bsky.social film programming (at Museum of the Moving Image, &c.), writing (at Reverse Shot, &c.), crossword editing (at @avcx.bsky.social+), mixing (https://soundcloud.com/solexyoghurt), and math
Suzanne Bowness @suzannebowness.bsky.social Writer/editor/author - content/strategy @ http://codeword.ca and journalism/creative @ http://suzannebowness.com. Buy my book @ http://feistyfreelancer.com
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Chiara Zanini @chiarazanini.bsky.social Freelancer (bylines in Rolling Stone, Wired, Jacobin, Left, Africa Express, Elle Decor and other media in Italy) + cultural operator based in Milan.
It’s not my disability, it’s your ableism.
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Alix Mammina @alixfm.bsky.social editor-in-chief @ https://hyperrealfilm.club/reviews
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social 🍒 screenwriter and culture writer
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Shannon Walsh @shannondwalsh.bsky.social Filmmaker • Writer •
Prof Film Production UBC 🇨🇦
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🎥: Adrianne & the Castle (2024)
📕: The Documentary Filmmaker’s Intuition (2024)
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Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social She/her, chronically ill, writer.
BA degree in Disability Studies
Anti-eugenics, pro-masking & clean air.
RFK Jr & MAHA hater
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social The Air Contains Honey
Artistic Director of PME-ART
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Desire Without Expectation
Charles Johnston @charlesjohnston.bsky.social Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Author of SLEEP WALK. Writer for Spectrum Culture. DETENTIONAIRE co-creator. charlesjohnston.ca
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Kate Renne.. @prof-cinement.bsky.social Canadian film prof in the Midwest who used to write for Cinema Scope (RIP), works at the Telluride Film Festival, and misses David Lynch. Co-host of podcasts The Lodgers and The Akerman Year.
A. Das @rohandas.bsky.social Writer, editor, digital programmer, sometimes movie critic. CMS@MIT, CRC@NYU. Editorial/programming: @TEDTalks, @io9, @slant_magazine, @livemint, @SundayGuardian. NYC/Kolkata.
Dr Mylo @amylouahava.bsky.social Punk rocker & scholar. PhD student @ TTU. Horror & disability studies. Drive-in Mutant. Writer for @HorrorMovieBlog & @DailyGrindhouse.🦮🐻❄️🐕🐈 🐈 🐈⬛ 🐢 🐢
Steve Fisher, BFA, CD (he/him) @gracingthestage.bsky.social A&E critic emeritus—Torontoist/AV Club/Now Magazine, etc.
Naval Reserve Instructor.
Canadian Theatre Critics Association board member, #TheaTO hashtag creator.
Burly #BikeTO boi, karaoke kid, LGBTQ+ Ally. BLM #Tkaronto
Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social Award-winning 🇬🇾 🇨🇦 Political Economist. Columnist. Law & Order historian. Reality TV veteran. Talking my shit @badandbitchy.com
Never forget 👉🏾 I will be vindicated.
Chris Beaver @chrisbeaver.bsky.social Anishinaabe Citizen. I make online content exposing settler colonial violence in Canada. Watch NDN POV. Listen to The Art of Sovereignty podcast.
Nathan Swann @somethinglikeasong.bsky.social filmmaker and visual artist
https://nathanswann.co/
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social Freelancer/critic. Physical media enthusiast and essayist. Member of the Michigan Movie Critics Guild.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social MANDY▫️GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES▫️motorcycle & bicycle wrench
Linda Steer @lindasteer.bsky.social Art historian researching photography & drug use. Author of Appropriated Photographs in French Surrealist Periodicals, 1924-1939 (Routledge, 2017). Art history teaching podcast https://unboxingthecanon.podbean.com
Partner, stepmom, and cat mom. 🐈⬛🐈⬛ 🇨🇦🌷🌸🌻
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal
Then: academia, 19thC, NYC
Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out
annaeclark.com- N Noor @nooryakbar.bsky.social
✨Directed by John Carpenter✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social Screenwriter. A walking study in demonology. Film Student. Engineer. Cinephile. Astrophotographer. Anarchist. Monster Movie Maven. MUA. Mad Max Historian. Pug mother. Jeff VanderMeer stan. She/Her
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Test Tube Barn Animal @ratbagjackson.bsky.social Liz B
Michael Wang @tambourine-man.bsky.social
Alexander Saxton @aewsaxton.bsky.social Toronto-based writer. Credits for CBC, CTV. Multiple Canadian Screen Award Defeats. Runs ‘The Workbench’ writing workshop at the Toronto Writers’ Centre. Querying a fantasy novel. 1/3 of @thewrongstation.bsky.social
kate j russell @serialmummy.bsky.social PhD in Cinema Studies, cult cinema, gross out comedy, horror
Brad Henderson @bradfhenderson.bsky.social Screenwriter | Film & Lost Film Historian | Acquisitions/Producer for @terror_vision (formerly Acquisitions/Prod @ Vinegar Syndrome) Producer of New York Ninja
Seventh Row @seventhrow.bsky.social A place to think deeply about movies | J. Trier, Reichardt, Sciamma experts | We write film ebooks 📚 We podcast🎙 | Latest ebook: subjectiverealities . com
tapeworthy @tapeworthy.bsky.social i still like to watch
I also like to ride
Alyssa Christian Ⓥ @veganmoviesnob.bsky.social Rhode Island-based childless vegan & animal lover. Film critic for Next Best Picture. Actor & flutist. Atheist. Neurodivergent. Anti-MAGA, Pro-Palestine. Aspiring digital nomad/expat.
@markleonard65.bsky.social @markleonard65.bsky.social
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Susan Nickerson @nickersonresearch.bsky.social Nickerson Research - Los Angeles. Footage, image, audio, & text research & clearance for movies & docs #History #Archivists #Librarians #Archives #Libraries #Museums #Preservation #RabbitHoles + #Genealogy
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nam kiwanuka @namshine.bsky.social - S Sarah Trick @sarahtrick.bsky.social Disabled journalist, writer, editor. 2023 Michener-L. Richard O'Hagan Fellow in Journalism Education.
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social Journalist, crosspatch, editor at the Toronto Star.
Laura Anne Harris @lauraanneharris.bsky.social I'm just here for the cheese.
Nina Fonoroff @ninafonoroff.bsky.social Experimental filmmaker, artist, onetime academic.
Sean Kelly on Movies Podcast @skonmoviespodcast.ca The official podcast network of @skonmovies.ca
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Michael Kelleher @michaelkelleher.bsky.social Seurat/knew a lot/about dots
Kazik Radwanski @redvineski.bsky.social Toronto filmmaker/ @mdff co-founder
Tower (2012) How Heavy This Hammer (2015) Anne at 13,000 ft (2019) Matt and Mara (2024) Available on MUBI, CBC and AppleTV.
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. Former Guardian, Village Voice & SciAm. He/him
wxllow 🌹😷 @wxddo.bsky.social /ˈwɪloʊ/ | they | 22 | 🇯🇲🏳️🌈♾️
good opinions are my own; bad ones are someone else’s
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Dzavid Dzanic @eintellection.bsky.social Associate Prof. France/Empire | PhD @Harvard | Film Photo | Literature | Spiritually Vancouverite | All views are my own: repost/like/follow/link≠endorsement
Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social Restoring and distributing "lost" films outside the Hollywood mainstream since 1990. We mess with the canon. Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, founders. www.milestonefilms.com
Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social Longtime film critic -- Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, New York Times -- now a curator in the Department of Film of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Opinions are my own.
Elisa Fuhrken @elisajoy.bsky.social English PhD Candidate I C19 Americanist I Performance Studies I Gender and Sexuality Studies ✨📚🌈 (ee-liss-ah fur-ken) - elisafuhrken.com
Tash @enneirda.bsky.social Chronically ill writer who watches a lot of movies
Creator of Bed Zine 🛏️
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Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social Seattle Film Critics Society (@seattlecritics.bsky.social)
Cascadia Film and TV Critics Association (@cascadiacritics.bsky.social)
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Nick Kline @nickkline.bsky.social Yachts on the reg
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social https://thesecretscreening.com - My life is a film festival. Cucalorus curator & board secretary. Indie film consultant (Acquisitions, Development, Festivals & Marketing). #playtimewithHillis #LGM
Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social Creator of AGAINST THE '70S (https://againstthe70s.blot.im/), a blog about mashing together '70s cinema & today's TTRPGs, and manager of The Best Album Brackets (@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social).
David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social I write the Daily column for Criterion's Current.
The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social Cultural critic and historian, author, podcaster, non-Zionist Jew. Co-host: CHARM OFFENSIVE. Writer: THE METHOD: HOW THE 20TH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT
Sam Wigley @sam-wigley.bsky.social Digital features editor at BFI. Sight and Sound. Booklet essays for Arrow / Radiance / Indicator. Q&As, intros. Critics Circle member. Pitch me sam.wigley@bfi.org.uk
@intheseats.bsky.social @intheseats.bsky.social
Tommaso Tocci @tommasotocci.bsky.social Film critic & programmer.
tommasotocci at gmail.