Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
Golden Silent Films Podcast @goldensilentscast.bsky.social The Golden Silent Films Podcast is a podcast dedicated to all things silent film and silent film adjacent! We are coming up on our fifth season and look forward to you joining us! Our show is available on all podcast platforms and YouTube.
Aaron King @aaronmfking.bsky.social they/them; RPG zinester; hard introvert. Cohost of RTFM (an RPG book club podcast) and Nightcrawler is My Boyfriend (an X-Men read-along & game design podcast). Games at https://erinking.itch.io/. Minneapolis MN USA.
Sagirah @sagirahs.bsky.social Black Muslim Poet from Minnesota
@counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social 🎞️ Network dedicated to activating and preserving Canada’s audiovisual heritage through digitization initiatives, artist residencies, symposia, & more 🔍 Works by Indigenous peoples, POCs, women, LGBT2Q+ and immigrant communities - counterarchive.ca
Mizna @miznaarabart.bsky.social Mizna is a Twin Cities-based contemporary arts organization promoting Arab/SWANA lit, film + art. We publish a literary journal and Mizna Online, and produce the annual Twin Cities Arab Film Fest.
mizna.org
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention.
🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Bilkent COMD
Co-host @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social
Co-chair @adaptstudies.bsky.social
Des femmes et des archives @womenandarchives.bsky.social Juliet Copeland
𝄐 Archive researcher / documentaliste audiovisuel & apprentie archiviste passée par @l-effet-marguerite.bsky.social
Membre @archivesdufeminism.bsky.social
FarzanehHolasu @farzanehebh.bsky.social Film and Media/Feminist Historiography/ stardom/ affective performance labor/Archives
🎬🎭📚Michigan State University📍
MUSE of Tragedy🐈 Coffeeholic ☕️
🎶Unapologetic self-centered subject 🧘🏻♀️
🎭Giggle at the funeral
Brian Dahlvig @briandahlvig.bsky.social The history of Film and Pop-Culture in general.
Dan Howard @dhowardfilm.bsky.social Filmmaker / Film buff / Art lover
Paul McGuire Grimes @paulsmovietrip.bsky.social FilmCritic, EntertainmentReporter - Critics Choice Association, MN Films Critics, GALECA, Rotten Tomatoes, KSTP-TV, My Talk 107.1, Fox 9.
Velma Caty Rent @jokerslaughter.bsky.social 
Matty B (he/him) @matt-makes.bsky.social Co-Director & Programmer at Flip the Script
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Elizabeth Lewandowski Doyle @suchsmallportions.bsky.social gardener, crafter, lover of tide pools, gemini hummingbird
Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social law student at the U of Minnesota, writer, editor, type 1 diabetic, queer, generally pretty worried about everything.
Cloudland Theater @cloudlandtheater.bsky.social Independent music venue in South Minneapolis
Richard Wallis @richardwallis.bsky.social Teach and research at The Media School, Bournemouth University in the UK.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-wallis-8161976/
Academic profile: https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/rwallis
Nanna Verhoeff @nannaverhoeff.bsky.social Prof. of Screen Cultures & Society at the Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University
Anthology Film Archives @anthologyfilm.bsky.social Preserving & presenting films made by visionaries, radicals, and independents—with a focus on the overlooked, forgotten or ignored. Est. 1970 #EssentialCinema
https://linktr.ee/anthologyfilmarchives
Taylor Carik @taylorcarik.bsky.social "Originally considered a critical failure, it has since gained a cult following"
Producer of #bienvenidosdystopia, media studies adjunct + writer, former DISPATCH publisher, plays in WRRC MPLS and PARISHES, among other things.
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Moon Palace Books @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social more books than before
Comparative Cinema @comparativecinema.bsky.social We are an academic journal that approaches film from a comparative perspective. Edited by Pompeu Fabra University. https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/index
DM Campbell @dmcampbellwsu.bsky.social Prof, AmLit, WSU Pullman; Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism & Early Cinema in Am Women’s Writing. Canada is a sovereign nation. Birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. None of his shenanigans are legal.
Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
Shelley Cobb @bellecobb.bsky.social Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies University of Southampton, UK
Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social Prof in Film History Uni of Exeter, UK | Research #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines #FilmSky 🗃️🎥🎞️🎬
PI: @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/
Nannina Gilder @nannina.bsky.social In 1916 Lois Weber was the highest paid director in Hollywood.
Film Spotlight @filmspotlight.org Listing screenings with special appearances and film discussions in nyc
https://filmspotlight.org/
Victoria Sturtevant @vsturtevant.bsky.social Media Studies Faculty. Author of It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy. Always up to talk comedy, gender, popular media, and reproductive politics.
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330449/
Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers. 
masonbutler @masonbutler.bsky.social Record Player/accumulator and Host of Pardon My Dust on KFAI 90.3 FM Minneapolis. Producer for Rudos Promotions Lucha Libre. Overstimulated/Underemployed.
Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social Author, critic, historian | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Curse of Queen Kelly | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
Tiffany Knoell, Ph.D. @tlknoell.bsky.social Professional nerd. Occasional time traveler. Co-host of Silent Film Fridays on Stream.place. Associate Teaching Professor and historian at the intersection of media and culture. Views are my own, not those of my employer.
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
The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social Researching the late, great Oscar-winning Australian feature film cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC at http://robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com
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Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social Journalist/📽️critic
The A.V. Club • BW/DR • The Seattle Times • The Inlander • TheWrap • IGN • IndieWire • RogerEbert.com
authory.com/ChaseHutchinson
Hire me: chase.hutchinson.writer@gmail.com
Prez Seattle Film Critics Society
SPJWash Winner for Criticism
Kimberly Pierce @kpierce624.bsky.social Critic. Archivist. Author.
Co-Chair Denver Film Critics.
https://piercingpopculture.substack.com/
Technicolor Blonde @technicolorblonde.bsky.social Film Historian, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Fan and Collector, Lieut. Ormer Locklear's Biographer, Old Hollywood Lover, and TCM Junkie 🖤
Twitter: @ElizabethDFJnr
The Japanese Paper Film Project @kamifirumu.bsky.social The Japanese Paper Film Project preserves 1930s Japanese paper films (紙フィルム or "kami firumu") and promotes research into these rare movies.
kamifirumu.scholar.bucknell.edu
Michaelangelo Matos @matoswk.bsky.social Michaelangelo Matos
Author, historian, critic, journalist
St. Paul
he/him
The Underground Is Massive (Dey Street, 2015); Can't Slow Down (Hachette, 2020)
I edit books - inquire within
Beat Connection: DJ mixes newsletter - http://michaelangelo.substack.com
Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social assoc prof @ UW CMS, editor Feminist Media Histories, lover of tea, pickleball addict, collector of (filmic) junk
Sanghita Sen @sanghitasen.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Film, Northumbria University, UK
Cinephile, knitter, gardener, handicrafts aficionado.
Cineaste Magazine @cineastemagazine.bsky.social America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema
https://www.cineaste.com/
Elliott H. Powell @ehphd.bsky.social Professor, UMN American Studies// I study race, sex(uality), & pop music // Author of *Sounds from the Other Side* (winner of the IASPM-US Guthrie & AMS Brett awards) // he/him
Eszter M Polonyi @empolonyi.bsky.social historian of art, film, and media
Jan L. Willis 📚 📽 🐕 🎸 📖 @forgetitjake2.bsky.social 📚 Librarian to the kids. 📽 Film. 🎷Music. 🐕🦺 Animals. 📖 Books. 🎸Bruce. 🏘 Midtown _is_ Memphis. 🎶
André Habib @habibandre.bsky.social Professeur d'études cinématographiques à l'Univ. de Montréal | Directeur général de la revue Hors champ | Auteur de quelques livres et plusieurs articles portant sur le cinéma expérimental, les archives, la nostalgie, les ruines, les collectionneurs, etc.
Dr Sheri Chinen Biesen @sheribiesen.bsky.social Cinema Professor. Film History. Jazz. Books: Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style. Blackout: World War II & Origins of Film Noir. Film Censorship. Music in the Shadows📚📽️🎷
https://noirbooks.blogspot.com
https://SheriChinenBiesen.blogspot.com
yunus erdoğan @erdoganyunus.bsky.social apò mēkhanês theós | Radio-Television and Cinema, Istanbul University, BA | Media and Communciation Studies, Galatasaray University, MA 
University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social Book publisher, est. 1925.
Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com News from Minnesota and beyond. startribune.com
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Axelle Demus @axelledemus.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow in Community Archives and Accessibility at McGill U & Research Associate at Archive/Counter-Archive, York U.
Ph.D. Communication and Culture, York University.
🔎cable access histories; a/v and community archives; pedagogy.
Maomao Yiman Wang @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social Professor of Film & Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz, posing as a cat
Laura Bondía @laurabondia.bsky.social Film scholar, journalist, comic-liebhaber
https://encadenados.org/
https://photo-play.net
Dr Jamie Stephenson @audioontology.bsky.social ambient metaphysics | music aesthetics |
sontology | poetics of resonance | drone monism | aural hermeneutics |postphenomenology | auditioning
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8211-6586
👹Blackened grindgaze as HERMETIC ABYSS:
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Polly Rose BFE @theflyingeditor.bsky.social Film editor ✂️ 🎞️ PhD research: Buster Keaton’s film editing & creative process
📽️🍿Presenter and/or programmer of film screenings📍Bristol, UK
HQ: https://bit.ly/m/theflyingeditor
Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social Will (he/him) on Zoom
Bassist for HR Lady and the Smoothgroins
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social The Official Bluesky account for SCMS
https://www.cmstudies.org/
Questions? Don't hesitate to get in touch with the SCMS office via the Contact Us page, and we’ll be happy to respond.
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
Boneshaker Books @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social volunteer-run radical bookstore in mpls
boneshakerbooks.com
bookshop.org/shop/boneshaker
open Mon 11am–8pm, Tues. 2–8pm, Weds–Fri 11am–8pm, and Sat/Sun 11am–5pm
Alya @alyaimsorry.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature • assistant editor, Cultural Critique • Mumbaikar in Minneapolis
Dr. Elīna Reitere @elinareitere.bsky.social 2nd-editor-in-chief of Latvian film magazine Kino Raksti • researcher at University of Latvia • Golden Globes voter • member of EFA • Eastern European cinema • production studies • theory of film criticism • contemporary film aesthetics • Riga/ Leipzig
Ben Model @silentfilmmusic.bsky.social silent film accompanist-historian-presenter; Undercrank Prods. home video; archivist of Ernie Kovacs television collection
Severin Films @severinfilms.bsky.social Entertainment with Sharp Edges. Creating, rescuing, and releasing the world’s most provocative cinema since 2006.
linktr.ee/severinfilms
Silentvalerio @silentvalerio.bsky.social Silent film nerd, ex-archivist 🎞️ and professional photographer 📷 in Bologna, Italy. Antifascist 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🇺🇦
https://linktr.ee/silentvalerio
https://www.valeriogrecophotography.com/
Enri Ceballos @vitascopian.bsky.social Historia del cine mexicano. Busco a las pioneras.
Candidatura al Doctorado en Historia del Arte UNAM y Dirección General en el Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México.
Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social Sahan Journal is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering Minnesota immigrants & communities of color.
sahanjournal.com
Northwest Film Forum @nwfilmforum.bsky.social Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film center located in Seattle!
New Beverly Cinema @newbeverly.bsky.social Repertory programming since 1978.
7165 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90036
https://linktr.ee/newbeverly
Deaf Crocodile @deafcrocodile.bsky.social Deaf Crocodile is a boutique Distribution + Restoration + Post-Production company focused on new, independent, lost/unseen and world cinema.
Celluloid Dreams @celluloid-dreams.bsky.social We're bringing you overlooked movies… one at a time!
Pre-order now - "The Black Belly of the Tarantula" Limited Edition - https://tinyurl.com/38yrz2je
Cinema Guild @cinemaguild.com Film distribution.
Cinématographe @cine-matographe.bsky.social A sub-label from Vinegar Syndrome, focused on American cinema from the mid-60s through the 90s.
Curated and produced by Justin LaLiberty 
Fun City Editions @funcityeditions.bsky.social Works of cinema and music that exist outside of their time.
funcityeditions.com
Kier-La Janisse @kierlajanisse.bsky.social Author, House of Psychotic Women / Cockfight
Writer/Director/Producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched / The Haunted Season
Acquisitions/Producer @severinfilms.bsky.social
Owner @spectacularoptical.bsky.social
https://www.kier-lajanisse.com
Cinema of the Macabre @cinemaofthemacabre.bsky.social A weekly film series featuring cult classics and obscure horror gems at Emagine Willow Creek.
Join us every Monday at 7:15 for a curated pre-show then vintage trailers and feature film around 7:30pm.
Tickets: https://linktr.ee/cinemaofthemacabre
Christopher Sieving @soulburger26.bsky.social Minnesota person, cinema scholar, author of Pleading the Blood: Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess (Indiana University Press, 2022), impostor.
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/
Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social Feminist Media Histories examines the role gender has played in media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. Published quarterly by UC Press.
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social 60s & 70s films + affiliates. Also Influences, origins, legacies, social-cultural context.
Books incl Hollywood's Last Golden Age; Novel: Urban Flight
70s Movie Podcast [NB: Antifascist]
Much more here: https://midcenturycinema.org/
Susan Doerr @susanmpls.bsky.social Reader. Scholarly book publisher at the University of Minnesota Press.
Gentry @gentryaustin.bsky.social Film Ephemera and Compact Discs
https://mimsyfarmerfanclub.com/
https://boxd.it/1VE1
Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social Silent cinema, curating, and feminist practice and theory at the University of Amsterdam; project manager/editor, @WFPProject.
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social ✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | Programmer, Must-Watch Indies @ FACETS Chicago | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
Florencia Marchetti @florecita-nomada.bsky.social Thinker-maker, mother, friend. Activating difficult dialogues and solidarities. Social change movements, art & the politics of culture, affect, embodiment, sensory attunement, neurodivergence. How do we move towards more inclusive futures?
John Beaudine @beaudinetwin2.bsky.social Photographer. Broadcast Director at WDAY TV (Fargo, ND). Video Editor. Fargo Film Festival Jury Chair.
https://www.johnbeaudinephotography.com/
Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social indie historian of MN arts
astronomy & English degrees
funny in real life
Chicago –> Tucson –> Minneapolis
Winston @sisyphusrollsjs.bsky.social He/Him
Video Editor, Beekeeper
Nordeast
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Nick Kouhi @nkouhi.bsky.social Freelance critic and programmer, based in New York. Can be found in Screen Slate, The Brooklyn Rail, and Journey Into Cinema, among many other places.
Silent Beauties @silentbeauties.bsky.social Blogger. Silent films. Art heals. History is a tool to improve the future and our decision making in the present time. Trying to make a difference.
Social media links: https://linktr.ee/silentbeauties
نزيه @nazeeh.bsky.social palestinian. a thief. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
Mark Joseph @therealmarkjoseph.bsky.social Movies, music, art, physical media, Simpsons se02-09, etc. I try to consumer underberg almost anywhere I can.
Barry Kryshka @bkryshka.bsky.social Director of the Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis.
Matthew Tchepikova-Treon @tchepikova-treon.bsky.social Cult Film Collective
Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS (2026). she/her (white cis queer)
mark? @setecastronomy.bsky.social Former Deputy Minister of the Interior for Val Verde.
movies. pdx. thorns/timbers. heirloom beans.
https://letterboxd.com/Setec_Astrology/