Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social writer and editor // writing @ Another Gaze, FIDback, MUBI/Notebook, RE:VOIR, Sight & Sound, etc. // laurastaab.xyz
Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social Former professional writer on film/TV/books, now just talking about them and my cat whenever someone lets me. Horror person. Half of Dundee’s Bizarro Video Club, Minnesota Wild fan, writing things. He/him
Filipe Furtado @filipefurtado.bsky.social Vejo muitos filmes e as vezes escrevo sobre eles também.
https://anotacoescinefilo.com
https://boxd.it/1nDt
Steph Green @steph-green.bsky.social day — working in travel content • night — writing about film at indiewire, bfi, the guardian, bbc culture, empire + elsewhere 🌙
Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social I write stuff (i Paper, Empire, Sight & Sound, Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Indicator Blu-ray). I like old movies, old books, old buildings and new music. Rep’d by The North Literary Agency.
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Corrina Antrobus @corrinaantrobus.bsky.social Culture Lead for Hackney. @BechdelTestFest Founder. Author of ' Love Romcoms & I'm A Feminist'. Film Critic; Empire, Rolling Stone, BBC etc...
Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social Writes about extreme weather & wildfires, nature & public lands, and adaptation & resilience for Heatmap.news | Hiking, running, mountains, boats, nonfiction books, long movies, sleep deprivation (baby) |📍 Seattle/Queens
Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social Film. TV. Archaeology. Pottery. Photography. Novels and short stories. Design. India. London. West Dorset 🌻 🍉
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Lee Marshall @leemarshall.bsky.social Film critic, travel writer, cyclist. Don’t get alarmed if ogni tanto scrivo in italiano.
Martyn Conterio @mdconterio.bsky.social Writing on film for BFI, NME, All About History, does things for various Blu-ray labels | monographs on Mad Max and Black Sunday
Omar Ahmed 🍉 @bressonian.bsky.social Freelance Film Scholar l Writer & International Curator of South Asian Cinema I Currently writing BFI Film Classics monograph on Mani Kaul's Uski Roti (Bloomsbury)
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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
RepCinema.com @repcinema.bsky.social London Repertory Cinema Programming Spreadsheets + Festival Schedulers.
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Ian Cade @meltwaterfalls.bsky.social I work with research and data about films and television as well as being a World Heritage Site hunter, Pompey fan, former Erasmus student, all whilst attempting to be a dad
Fireflies Press @firefliespress.bsky.social Independent publisher specialising in contemporary cinema.
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Light Industry @lightindustry.bsky.social Light Industry is a venue for cinema in all its forms, overseen by @thomasbeard.bsky.social and @edhalter.bsky.social.
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Thomas Beard @thomasbeard.bsky.social Half of @lightindustry.bsky.social
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Lizzie Francke @lizziefrancke.bsky.social Film Executive for many years now Head of Directing Fiction at the National Film and TV School, UK. Despite the very stormy clouds, glad to be here. ‘It's a beautiful new day? Hey’ . Let’s make waves.
Sophia Satchell-Baeza @sophiasb.bsky.social senior managing editor at MUBI | writing for Sight & Sound, ArtReview, MUBI Notebook | website: https://sophiasatchellbaeza.co.uk | let's see how long I last on here
Slapstick Festival @slapstickfest.bsky.social 🎭Bringing the best in silent and visual comedy since 2005
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Pasquale Iannone @pasqualeiannone.bsky.social Lecturer in Film Studies (University of Edinburgh)
Writer / Broadcaster (BFI, BBC Radio, Sight & Sound)
Podcast Producer / Host (Edinburgh Film Podcast)
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Lou Thomas @londonlou.bsky.social BFI Digital Production Editor | ✍🏻 Sight and Sound, Empire, Time Out, NME and more | Member of London Critics’ Circle (Film section) | Q&A host | Spurs season-ticket holder (block 422) |
Nick de Semlyen @nickdesemlyen.bsky.social Editor of Empire. Author of The Last Action Heroes & Wild And Crazy Guys. Devourer of Twiglets.- O Olivia Howe @oliviahowe.bsky.social Director of Festivals Business and Production @BFI
Sophie Kendrick @sophiekendrick.bsky.social Stage left | Roman northerner in SE London | BFI Events | Views expressed are my own | she/her | 🍸📺📽🎭🎶🕶
Rowan Woods @rowan-woods.bsky.social Creative Director, Edinburgh TV Festival | Programme Adviser, Berlinale and LFF | Acquisitions, Festivals, Moderating
Neil McGlone @neilmcgfilm.bsky.social Researcher for @Criterion.bsky.social Consultant #KVIFF #IlCinemaRitrovato, Cinema Manager #TheRiverside CEO #FilmFeast Director #SuffolkShorts
Robert Beeson @rbeesonfilm.bsky.social U.K. film distributor at New Wave Films.
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social Large and bracing rural film festival taking place early spring in multiple venues across Herefordshire, Shropshire, Malvern and the Welsh Marches. Next edition: Fri 5 to Sat 20 March 2026
https://borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk
Steve Jones @drstevejones.bsky.social Lead of the Horror Studies Research Group, Northumbria University. Known for research on extreme horror, philosophy, pornography, and the slasher subgenre.
drstevejones.co.uk
Rhidian Davis @rhidiandavis.bsky.social Blue skies and new horizons. Take me there.
m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social | everything's coming up milhouse |
writer, editor, researcher, concept engineer, goblin
mattlloydturner.com + http://nonlinearities.substack.com
Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social I just like movies. Especially horror movies.
- whitlockandpope.com
- boxd.it/eSY9
Member: Horror Critics Group | Film Critics Association
Husband to @momoshaty.bsky.social
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
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Robbie Collin @robbiecollin.bsky.social Telegraph (UK) film critic and amateur menswear enjoyer
Ed Halter @edhalter.bsky.social Writer on film and other things, half of Light Industry, Brooklyn
@lightindustry.bsky.social
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Madeleine Probst @maddyprobst.bsky.social Head of Film at Watershed, Cinema Rediscovered Producer, on the board of Europa Cinemas She-Her, made in🇨🇭Film, music, great outdoors. Views are mine.
Encounters Film Festival @encounters.film Encounters is Bristol's globally renowned short film & animation festival. A qualifying festival for BAFTA, BIFA and the European Film Awards.
23 - 27 September 2026.
http://bio.site/encountersfilmfest
Matthew Taylor @tatthewmaylor.bsky.social Editor and writer. BFI | Sight and Sound
bfidatadigipres.github.io
Arjun Sajip @arjsaj.bsky.social Digital Editor at Apollo magazine. Formerly at Sight and Sound. Arts writer, mostly film (bylines at BBC Culture, the FT, IndieWire, ArtReview, Cineaste, Cinema Scope and others)
Jake Garriock @jwgarriock.bsky.social 
Francis Hodgson @fhodgson.bsky.social Writing on Photography
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Mark Cosgrove @markcosgrove.bsky.social Engaging audiences in some of the finest cinematic visions and much more at Watershed, Bristol and beyond. Founder of Cinema Rediscovered, bringing great films back to the big screen since 2016. Ops my own.
Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social Great films back on the big screen 📽️ Cinema Rediscovered 10 is on tour from August to December 2026 across the UK and Ireland.
https://linktr.ee/cineredis
Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social BFI Southbank: Season curator
'From Censored to Restored' + 'Chasing the Real'
Programme & Research Coordinator + MicroMacro Film. Views my own.
Michael Brooke @marbleicehook.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor and DVD/Blu-ray producer/commentator specialising in British and central/eastern European cinema. Indexes to my regular posts celebrating the latter (9am daily, 9pm most days) can be found at http://www.michaelbrooke.com/bluesky
Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social Guardian staffer; author of Capital Celluloid daily blog guide to London repertory film scene (http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/?m=1); book, vinyl and DVD/Blu hoarder and proud of it.
Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social ~old hollywood, crime films, boxing, italian cinema, glamour & beauty ~
Sky Arts talking head. Empire Mag contrib editor. Writing: i Newspaper, the Atlantic, Criterion, BBC, Rolling Stone.
'SOFIA COPPOLA: AN UNOFFICIAL GUIDE'Greenfinch/Quercus 2025.
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
Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social Film journalist, author, podcaster, broadcaster, etc. Empire's Editor-at-Large. If you would like to give me work, have a look at helenohara.com
Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com Big on cats and movies. Film writer and programmer often seen on Variety, Little White Lies, The Playlist, Letterboxd and more. Views mine, for better or for worse.
📧 For work: rafiews@gmail.com
👋 Also @rafiews everywhere else.
www.rafiews.com
Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk digital editor @ Little White Lies. extremely online and incredibly anxious.
author of books on sofia coppola + wes anderson, MODERN PROMETHEUS: THE FILMS OF YORGOS LANTHIMOS out Nov 2026, Jackass book Oct 2027!
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Beatrice Loayza @bealoayza.bsky.social Film critic // New York Times, Criterion, Artforum, 4Columns, Film Comment, etc. 
Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social Let’s count the rings around my eyes
Maddie @maddiewhittle.bsky.social you and me and the moon
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social Aw, crap.
Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social Films, etc. | Critic, curator | Podcasts, books + screenings as Ghibliotheque
david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social indiewire film critic. 
Elena Lazic @elazic.bsky.social Founder and editor of @animusmagazine.bsky.social | Production Manager @filmsradiance.bsky.social | Film writer, journalist, copy editor and translator | French | In London, UK
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
Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social Chief film critic, Variety. Beneath this glassy surface, a world of gliding monsters.
Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social Film critic. Author of DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS (Jan ‘25). My writing about film has appeared in the NYT, Art in America, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and elsewhere. NYFCC member
https://linktr.ee/violetvlucca
David Jenkins @daveyjenkins.bsky.social LWLies editor. david at tcolondon dot com
Caitlin Quinlan @caitlinquinlan.bsky.social london / @mubi editions
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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social Writer and journalist in FT, Guardian, Slate, New York Times, Prospect etc. First novel, DEEP DOWN, came out in 2023. I also write video games with Motvind Studios.
https://authory.com/ImogenWestKnights
John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com Magic Hours - Malick
Visible Darkness - Glazer
Variety/Sight&Sound/The New World
Cinema Italia&Writers On Film podcasts
Connery A Novel
https://linktr.ee/writersonfilm
Hope Dickson Leach @hopedickle.bsky.social Filmmaker based in Edinburgh often found tending to my children and shouting about how hard it all is.
Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com Editorial @ mubi || Words @ Guardian, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, BBC, Indicator, Arrow Films, and others.
📍London, UK 📩 phuonghhle@gmail.com
The Film Foundation @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social The Film Foundation is a nonprofit organziation established in 1990 by Martin Scorsese, dedicated to protecting and preserving motion picture history.
Carol Morley Film @carolmorleyfilm.bsky.social Filmmaker Writer Director https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2024/oct/05/mark-kermode-on-carol-morley-typist-artist-pirate-king-the-alcohol-years-dreams-of-a-life-the-falling-out-of-blue
Ashley Clark @ashcclark.bsky.social Don't look at the carpet, I drew something awful on it
https://linktr.ee/_Ash_Clark
Catherine @catherinebray.bsky.social Big Hoops lobbyist. Also film producer. Write about film for the Guardian and Variety. Parent to a polite baby and ill-mannered cat.
Lillian Crawford @lillcrawf.co.uk Writer and curator • Stims Collective • PhD on Screen Two • Listen to Lillian • The Mind of the Doctor: Across the Neurodiverse Universe of Doctor Who • www.lillcrawf.co.uk • listentolillian.substack.com • lilliancrawford13s@gmail.com
Christian Blauvelt @christianblauvelt.bsky.social Assistant Managing Editor, Digital Engagement, @TB_Times
Geoff Andrew @geoff-andrew.bsky.social Film critic, lecturer, programmer. Mainly about music, movies, art, politics. Views my own. Writes at greater length at geoffandrew.com
Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope.
The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
ProjectedFigures.com
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/
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
Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social Novelist and Critic. https://johnnyalucard.com/