2nd Verzió Young Documentary Film Critics Workshop
The Verzió Young Documentary Film Critics Workshop takes place within the framework of the 20th Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Budapest, Hungary. The workshop is open to aspiring and early-career film critics and focuses on methods and approaches to writing about non-fiction films. A team of international and Hungarian tutors guide participants through the intricacies of structuring and publishing critical texts; polish their writing and editing skills; and introduce participants to the existing platforms and publications that feature critiques on nonfiction film.
Tutors:
Pamela Cohn is a freelance film & video curator, arts & culture writer, nonfiction story consultant and dramaturge for filmmakers and moving image artists. She has worked as a professional mentor for such entities as Open City London's Assembly and The British Council / Scottish Documentary Institute’s program, Connecting Stories. Pamela is the author of Lucid Dreaming: Conversations with 29 Filmmakers (OR Books New York & London, 2020) and produces, writes and hosts The Lucid Dreaming Podcast: Conversations on Cinema, Art & Moving Image in cooperation with Lono Studio, London. She has been a contributing writer for MIT’s Open Doc Lab blog site IMMERSE; Filmmaker Magazine; BOMB Magazine; The Calvert Journal; Senses of Cinema; Documentary Association Europe; and works as a freelance writer for film print and web publications, catalogues and artist materials. Pamela created the blog Still in Motion, dedicated to the documentary form, active from 2007 to 2015. She works as a host, moderator and interlocutor for filmmaker talks, panels and roundtables at an array of international festivals and film exhibition events.
Zsolt Gyenge works as Associate Professor at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Budapest, Hungary), where he teaches courses in film analysis, avant-garde cinema, film theory, film history, and visual communication theory. His field of research includes interpretation theories (phenomenology, hermeneutics), moving image installations (video art) and Romanian Cinema. He is the author of the book Image, Moving Image, Interpretation: A Theory of Phenomenological Film Analysis (published in Hungarian). He is active as a freelance film critic for more than 20 years, and currently is the editor of the scholarly journal on design culture, Disegno.
Consultant:
Anna Babos is a critic and programmer. She studied film curatorship in Donostia-San Sebastian and participated in the programming practices of various Spanish institutions. She contributes to international and Hungarian journals and magazines, including magyar.film.hu, where she was a member of the editorial board for over a year. Currently she edits the publications of the distributor, Cinema Niche and programs the film cycle of Partizán, one of Hungary's leading media.
Images from last year's workshop:
