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Phillip BergsonWriting about Films and Festivals. Film Critic, UK,Invited Member of The UK Critics' Circle FIPRESCI abd the European Film Academy. Visiting Lecturer, Prague Film School. Winner of the "Student Journalist of the Year" competition in the UK weekly New Statesman, as a Classics Scholar Phillip Bergson then founded the Oxford Film Festival and, on graduating, was selected by "The Sunday Times" as a 'New Critic' and in the same week began broadcasting on film for many BBC Radio programmes. A contributor to the "Times Literary Supplement", "TES",The Spectator,film critic on "The Sunday Standard", "Screen International",Variety, "Film Bulletin", "Film a Doba" inter alia, and on the FilmFestJOURNAL in Berlin and Screen Dailies at Cannes,he also worked for the "European Script Fund", has scripted shorts and features (that have been produced and released) and, fluent in eight-and-a-half languages, currently programmes and advises several international film festivals and is.Casting Consultant on several international features. At the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, in his native Yorkshire, he created the "Eurovisions" project, to promote classic and contemporary European cinema,which was inaugurated at the Cine Lumiere in London by His Excellency the President of Iceland. Presenter and Programmer,London Turkish Film Week, December 2018 Co=programmer, 2nd London Turkish Film Week, April 2019 Artistic Director, 3rd London Turkish Film Week, planned for 1-7 June 2020. As a FIPRESCI Jury Member
and a member of International Juries at Thessaloniki, Europa Cinema (Rimini), Munich Documentary, Manaki Brothers,Cine Jove (Valencia),Chicago, TIFF-ODA, SOFIA... Film Career of KoreaThe 14th London Korean Film Festival opens tonight as a celebration marking the centenary of film-making in Korea in the aptly-chosen historic Regent Street Cinema, wthere the freres Lumiere first screened films in Great Britain. Although the popular annual event has a varied selection of UK and international premieres, with thematic sections focussing on documentary, animation and video, the choice for the Opening Gala for the first time has fallen on a modern classic The Seashore Village,dating from 1965, in a newly restored print, which even more remarkably will be introduced by its 91-year-old director, Kim Soo-yong., who joins a delegation of directors, critics and archivists to present prpgrammes at a dozen or so London venues until 14th with some of the films touring to screens in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Bristol, Manchester and Nottingham until 24th November 2019. Full details at www.koreanfilm.co.uk
The Seashore Village - Opening Gala (1st Nov) Phillip Bergson
01.11.2019 | Phillip Bergson's blog Cat. : centenary celebration film festival Korean national cinema FESTIVALS
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