@iainrobertsmith.bsky.social @iainrobertsmith.bsky.social 
Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Film & TV Studies @ Warwick Uni / Forthcoming: The Dancing Girl in Contemporary Cinema 💃 (EUP, 2026) / Programming: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/trailblazers / Editor: Open Screens
🌳 Rambling through Epping Forest 🌳
@brenked60.bsky.social @brenked60.bsky.social Cinephile and music nerd. Retired film lecturer.
Seeking shelter from the Storm.
What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?
Not unless you mail them from Desolation Row.
Rejoin the EU NOW!
COYS
Victoria @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social phding, grad rep, teaching in dept of film studies at king's college london 🚀 researching masculinity, politics, laughter in post-2016 us pop culture 🔮 AFHEA 🛸
Richard Dhillon @drricharddhillon.bsky.social Sessional Tutor, Film and Television Studies, Warwick. British/queer television and film histories. 📺 he/him
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/film/staff/dhillon/
Sarah Gibson Yates @sgyates.bsky.social Writer, filmmaker, researcher, senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Researcher in #screenwriting #filmmaking #film_practice #creativeAI #ethicalAI #creative_practice #creative_writing
Myriam Mompoint @mmompointphd.bsky.social Humanities; African diaspora; Haitian Studies; Francophonie; pan-Caribbean; Brazil; fashion & textile arts; media/film, culture & memory
Televising Transnational Trauma (LUP 2025)
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836242666
BAFTSS Conference 2025 @baftss2025.bsky.social Official account for the BAFTSS conference 2025, held at the University of Warwick on 26-28 March 2025. #BAFTSS2025
Anna Rosensweig @arosensweigbskysoc.bsky.social Prof. of French and Visual Culture. Currently writing a book about early modern Calvinism, contemporary Christian Nationalism, and the soi distant New Right. Views my own.
Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social scholar of art/cinema/media
https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
D.M. Palmer @gutsvansant.bsky.social I pressed the wrong button, and now I'm stuck here.
Kate selkie @kateselkie.bsky.social Salty little dirt weasel , worrier , tattooer , baker of wonky bread .
Herbivore/wyrmy lore 🕯️☀️🌱
They/them/theirs 🪺 swims/digs/draws
Xanthe Pajarillo @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇵🇭 Film Director doing a PhD in Horror
🐁 The Feral Academic
🎬 In Post: Kids Make Horror
📍 Birmingham UK 🔁 LA
Dr Alaina Schempp @alainaschempp.bsky.social Film Scholar. Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham. Screenwriter. TV watcher. She/her.
BAFTSS Adaptation SIG @adaptationsig.bsky.social The Bluesky account for the BAFTSS Adaptation SIG, convenor @stinaface.bsky.social 
Katrina Jan @katrinajan.bsky.social English Lit PhD & Project Manager @UniBirmingham
Jack the Ripper in #19c & Contemporary #Romance Novels, Serial Killers, True Crime, #Gothic
Co-runs @gothicauob.bsky.social 🦇 & cerealkillernet.bsky.social 🔪
Matthew Bruce @mattbruce007.bsky.social PhD in French (Film) Studies student @LCAHM_UoB looking at comedy cinema. PGTA @unibirmingham. SEA @pg_cal. PGR Rep for @baftss. Views are my own.
Pablo Gómez @pablogomezm.bsky.social Film Studies & Science Fiction. Lecturer in English, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). Member of the @spacescinema.bsky.social research project
JACLR @jaclrinfo.bsky.social Creative writing and academic research journal published by SIIM 📚📖 | I Hosted by REUNIDO @universidadoviedo.bsky.social | e-ISSN 2340-650X
linktr.ee/jaclrinfo
Pedro Mora-Ramírez @pedromrez.bsky.social PhD Candidate, @unisevilla.bsky.social | Masculinities, Space, Abolition, Literature, Film | Teoría y Estudios Culturales TEC (HUM 409)
https://linktr.ee/pedromrez
Andrés Buesa @abuesa.bsky.social PhD in Film Studies at the University of Zaragoza - childhood, cinema, mobility
https://andresbuesa.wordpress.com
Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social Official account of the research project 'Performing Space / Spatializing Performance: Space and Performance in 21st Century Cinema' at the University of Zaragoza
https://transnationalspacesinthecinema.wordpress.com/
https://shorturl.at/ws9S8
Andrea S. Regueira Martín @andrearm.bsky.social Lecturer & film studies researcher. University of Zaragoza.
Interested in teen film, girlhood, transitions to adulthood and virtual spaces.
Member of @spacescinema.bsky.social
Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social Film Journalist, Video Essayist/Editor, Festival Programmer
Sight & Sound, LWLies, BFI, NFTS, LFF, RSIFF & more
https://vimeo.com/user11355665
“Seemed that he was busy doing something close to nothing but different than the day before." His dad, via Prince
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
MediArXiv @mediarxiv.bsky.social Non-profit, scholar-led preprint (articles, chapters, books) server for media & communication studies. Founded 2019. Follow also on Mastodon: @mediarxiv@hcommons.social
www.mediarxiv.com
Allan Cameron @aliencamera.bsky.social Interested in time, technology and media. And horror movies.
kev, it is what it is @kevinlferguson.bsky.social by popular demand
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
Claire French @drclairefrench.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow | linguistically sustainable dramaturgies | Aarhus University, Denmark | multilingualism, minoritisation and performance
Co-editor: Applied Theatre Research (Intellect), Reading Decoloniality (Warwick)
Abi Rhodes @abirhodes.bsky.social Lecturer in Language and Communication at UoB. Researching social movement and grassroots communications. Co-convenor of PSA MPG. Trustee of Journey to Justice. Living kidney donor(She/her)
https://www.abirhodes.co.uk/
Cydnii Wilde Harris (she/her) @cydniiwilde.bsky.social Spelman Woman / Jedi Master of Arts / Film Scholar / Bibliophile / Come on stop trying to hit me and hit me.
Muglurk @muglurk.bsky.social right silly bugger
ratmanmanratratmanilikerat
i make videos and new to painting miniatures
https://linktr.ee/muglurk
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
oyajim @oyajimbo.bsky.social Was on shitter until it got even shitter! English language teacher, examiner trainer for Cambridge, part-time barmy army & photographer. Probably my round.
Richard Langley @richardlangley.bsky.social 
Patricia Gaytán @patriciagaytan.bsky.social Latin American Woman. 🎥 Audiovisual producer, feminist activist and doctoral student in communication and gender. 📚 Experimenting #videoessay as a methodology.
🦋 I believe in justice. 🌱 Ecocentric.
Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
Ella Beard @ellabeard11.bsky.social Gardener, Acer, Dahlia & Hosta lover, knitter, cat rescuer. Baker.
Dr Kingsley Marshall @kingsleymarshall.bsky.social Film production/Academic. #TheLandDemandsBlood #HowlsavlaGwav #TheBirdwatcherFilm https://linktr.ee/myskatonic #RoseofNevada #PrinceofWhales #EnysMen #Backwoods #LongWayBack @myskatonic.bsky.social https://uk.linkedin.com/in/kingsleymarshall
Ross Wigham @rwingman.bsky.social Sometimes right, mostly wrong, always certain. Views personal. Dad of 3 girls| North East| director of comms|PR| Ex-hack| past chair of NHS providers comms leads 
@chiaragrizzaffi.bsky.social @chiaragrizzaffi.bsky.social 
Joshua Jamieson @joshjamieson.bsky.social Joshua Jamieson look-alike contest runner up (who/him?) | Audience editor @economist.com | Views my own
Stephan Schwingeler @schwingeler.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies at HAWK, Germany, formerly at ZKM
Wikipedia: https://t.co/oG5vVSzMib
Jono Read @jonoread.co.uk 📺 Social media manager | Technology reviewer
👶 Millennial dad | Engaged | Norfolk guy in Yorkshire
📧: jono.read@bbc.co.uk
D O G M O U T H @dogmouththeatre.bsky.social Riot grrrl theatre company | amplifying + embracing feminine rage 🔥✨
CURRENT: Sluts With Consoles 🎮
• Reading - 23 July
• Edinburgh - 31 Jul - 10 Aug
• Camden Fringe - 19 Aug
• Oxford - 5 Oct
• Cardiff - 10 Oct
Find us: https://linktr.ee/dogmouththeatre
Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social Teaching film and writing at U Birmingham. Co-Convenor BAFTSS Adaptation SIG (https://bsky.app/profile/adaptationsig.bsky.social) and MHHRN (mhhrn.bham.ac.uk). Podcast: B Film Queer Pod 🏳️🌈(https://tinyurl.com/2bbw5ywd) 
dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social Children's horror doctor, rabbit film studies connoisseur and intermittent gremlin.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/catherine-lester/
Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026.
https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
@iangarwoodfilm.bsky.social @iangarwoodfilm.bsky.social 
Johannes Binotto @sennahojottonib.bsky.social 
Nina Jones @ninajonesfilm.bsky.social Documentarian, currently producing a film exploring the ethics of true crime content production for a PhD at The University of Birmingham.
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.
Dr Louise Coopey @loucoopey.bsky.social Doctor in film & television. Independent researcher & freelance content writer. Researching TV, representation, complexity, seriality, adaptation.
Peter MᶜNamara @mcnanarama.bsky.social He's'll'd've/him's/his selves
derrenbrown.co.uk
Charles 'Charlie' Harris @cmdharris.bsky.social 
Chaz Webb @webofthechaz.bsky.social Stage and Production Manager specialising in Theatre for Young Audiences and Fringe theatre.
🦆 Company Stage Manager - Quick Duck Theatre 🦆
Currently: The Witch & The Whistleblower - Theatre Arcana
www.webofthechaz.co.uk
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
🦅🦆🦉🐦🐤🐧
Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
Cover photo: Aintright 📷
Flynn Fitzgerald @babyleafsaladd.bsky.social Playwright, Producer, Eldritch Horror etc. 🇮🇪🌈
Artistic Director @DogmouthTheatre.bsky.social
MA Drama Writing @ Bristol Old Vic Theatre School ‘26
CURRENT:
Make Shift Camp 2026 💿✨
https://linktr.ee/dogmouththeatre
Will Smith @actualwillsmith.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Performer
https://ko-fi.com/actualwillsmith/shop
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Chaz Webb @chazwebb.bsky.social I love dogs and tell dad jokes for fun. Hellmouth Sunbeams fan.
Cüneyt Çakırlar @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Visual Culture @ Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Evelyn Kreutzer @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social Film/media scholar, video essay maker, feminist
www.evelynkreutzer.com
Postdoc at USI Lugano
Previously at Film University Babelsberg
PhD from Northwestern University
Jessica Wax-Edwards @waxwards.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow @ University College Cork.
Working on AMLO/Mexico + visual populism in social media, film etc using videographic methods .
HMU to collaborate. 
Veronika Hanakova @veronikahanakova.bsky.social AV essayist exploring New Media & Digital Culture ~ Media Archaeology ~ Researcher of gimmicky artifacts: from Star Wipe to my latest obsession the DVD ~ Member of Grassroots of Digital Europe ~ Curator for Marienbad Film Festival & Artycok.TV
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
Ariane Hudelet @arianehudelet.bsky.social Visual culture professor at Université Paris Cité; video essayist & author of written books and articles on TV series, intermediality, etc.
Tom Hemingway @tomhemingway.bsky.social Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at University of Warwick. Usually at a gig.
James MacDowell @jamesmacdowell.bsky.social Film/media scholar & video essayist at Warwick. The Lesser Feat on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelesserfeat6298
Peet Gelderblom | Directorama @peetgelderblom.bsky.social Filmmaker • Creative Creature • Pattern Weaver
MOOI HIER ALLES | WHEN FOREVER DIES | PACT MET DE DUIVEL
directorama.net
https://beacons.ai/peet
Desirée Garcia @dezigarcia.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dartmouth College
Sureshkumar P. Sekar @ursmusically.bsky.social PhD - Royal College of Music, London; MA - Univ. of East Anglia; B. Tech - NIT, Trichy. Researching audience experience, audiovisual culture, video essays.
bit.ly/baahubalive
Sam Close ButNoCigar @butnocigar.bsky.social Academic, knitter, video game player. Into popular culture, digital media, labor, and creativity. Known to make a video essay now and then.
The Essay Library @theessaylibrary.com 📼 Video essay collective making weird and fun collaborative projects: youtube.com/@theessaylibrary
📱 Discord server with 900+ members dedicated to the craft of video essays: theessaylibrary.com
Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social I am a lecturer in Film and Digital Media. My research publications span across: Film, Television, Video Gaming, Digital Performance and Video Essaying.
https://vimeo.com/user107379730
https://criticalcommons.org/user/DanOB1/media
Will Webb @willwebbful.bsky.social Filmmaker, video essayist. Staking out this username.
Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
Dan Olson 🔜 Saskatchewan @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social contact: christopher at nebula dot tv
MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture @maifeminism.bsky.social MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
Maike Reinerth @maireinerth.bsky.social Media Studies, Politics, Stuff. Dr. phil. & Angry Mom.
Film/Media scholar currently working on/with film, animation, videographic criticism & green media.
Based in Babelsberg, 🩷 in Hamburg.
Homepage: https://maikereinerth.de/
Photo Credit: S. Reis
Nelson Carvajal @nelsoncarvajal.com 📍Los Angeles ‣ Creator Manager at TikTok ‣ Webby Award winner ‣ Emmy-nominated Producer ‣ Born & raised in Chicago ‣ 📧: nelson.carvajal@tiktok.com ‣ nelsoncarvajal.com
Stephen Broomer @stephenbroomer.bsky.social filmmaker & writer. video essayist. host of art & trash. publisher, black zero. programmer, ad hoc. sessional lecturer, cinema studies institute, university of toronto. he/him.
Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Film at the University of British Columbia. Videographic scholarship ❤️
Queline (kikikrazed) @queline.bsky.social 📺 Video essayist: BFI, GKIDS, youtube.com/@kikikrazed
💬 Community manager: @theessaylibrary.com
💻 kikikrazed.com
Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Film LJMU | researching film sound & production
Making video essays & exploring creative practice
Founding editor @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social
Associate Editor @intransition.bsky.social
Johannes Binotto @jbinotto.bsky.social Professional hat wearer, amateur video tinkerer, wild analyst www.transferences.org
Philip Józef Brubaker @bolddecade.bsky.social Essayist/Filmmaker • Master of Ceremonies • Herzog Film School '10 | Fandor | MUBI |tecmerin | [in]Transition | Vague Visages | Substack
https://linktr.ee/philipjozefbrubaker
Miklós Kiss @mikloskiss.bsky.social Associate Professor of AV Arts & Cognition @rug.nl, author of this http://bit.ly/2SJM29Q, this http://bit.ly/2a4zvaw and this http://bit.ly/3A0KrPG.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9136-8200
Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social Media scholar, video maker and PhD student at Tel Aviv University. TV studies, popular culture and videographic criticism.
https://www.arielavissar.work/
https://vimeo.com/arielavissar
Filmscalpel @filmscalpel.bsky.social Audiovisual thoughts about audiovisual arts. Filmscalpel creates, collects and curates video essays at www.filmscalpel.com
Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | film, dance, musicals, Jacques Demy, genre, videographic criticism | she/her | maman | author of Storytelling in Motion: Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical (Oxford UP, 2024)
Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of Popular Music at University of California, Riverside
PREPROGRAMMED: HOW ELECTRONIC PRESETS CHANGED MUSIC AND MEDIA, out Sept. ‘26: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/preprogrammed/paper
Social histories of music, sound, technology, & media
Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies @UIUC; Author of PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES: HOW FILM DISTRIBUTION MADE THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM (University of Texas Press, 2024)
Kathleen Loock @kathleenloock.bsky.social American studies and media studies | Leibniz University Hannover, Germany | New book: Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Prequels Shape Industry and Culture (UC Press, 2024) | Emmy Noether Research Group: Hollywood Memories
Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social researcher, fact-checker: extremism, conspiracies, US history
critic: Paste, Time, etc.
assistant editor, Cineaste
PhD Candidate in Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
The Video Essay Podcast
views mine
www.willdigravio.com
Katie Bird @arthousedirectr.bsky.social Video Essayist, Independent Film Scholar, Lapsed Academic. Hollywood Film Labor and Film History.