The third in the series of workshops organised in partnership with the Animation Festival Network  takes place at the Anifilm International Festival of Animated Films in Liberec, Czech Republic, between 2 and 7 May 2023. Four promising international film journalists and critics work with tutor Dana Linssen on reviews, interviews, industry stories and essays focused on the animation scene. These articles will are published on the Cineuropa and Zippy Frames websites.

GoCritic! Participants at Anifilm 2023

Līga Požarska

A film critic and festival programmer from Riga, Latvia, Līga writes for TalkingShorts.com, KinoRaksti.lv and Delfi.lv, and has helped to select films for Riga IFF, 2ANNAS ISFF and Glasgow IDFF. She has attended two creative writing workshops in Paris (held in French) and was selected as a mentee on the five month-long Baltic Women in Film & TV Mentorship (mentored by Laurence Boyce). Over the past two years, she has grown accustomed to juggling Eastern European and Western narratives, and is currently writing an investigative article on fake film festivals, as well as preparing the festival catalogue and other text materials for the upcoming edition of 2ANNAS ISFF.

Haji Safarov

Haji Safarov is a film critic from Azerbaijan and a Talents Sarajevo 2022 alumnus who graduated from Istanbul University in 2018. He began creating video-essays on Azerbaijani and world cinema shortly after graduating. In 2019, he participated in a workshop organised by the Batumi IAFF and Cottbus FF. The following year, Haji was a founding member of the Independent Cinema Platform and served on the jury for the "Support for Full-Length Film Projects - 2022" competition, as well as for the 38th Warsaw Film Festival. He is a co-founder and concept creator of the Kinoyazar.az website, where he is attempting to cover all aspects of cinema.

Tereza Suchánková

A photographer for Czech Television, Prima TV, Logline Production and the media agency Herminapress, but also an editor and graphic designer, Tereza has covered events including KVIFF, as well as theatre and concert performances for the Hybernia Theatre, Karlín Musical Theatre, Semafor and Broadway Theatre. She co-edited Miroslav Huptych's book published by Pistorius & Olšanská and has since decided to pursue a degree in Film Studies at Charles University in Prague.

Katerina Beloglazova

A film critic and curator born in 1987 in Moscow, Katerina is currently living in Yerevan, Armenia, due to the political situation in Russia and the war against Ukraine. She is the author of various film-related texts, produced in a variety of Russian languages, both online and in print, and is especially interested in art, experimental and non-narrative films, and political cinema. For the past two years, she has been a member of the International Debut Film Festival's curatorial team in New Holland, Saint-Petersburg (the Festival closed when the war broke out), and a curator of the Moscow Anthropological School's two-year educational programme in contemporary philosophy and interdisciplinary theories. She curated this programme from its earliest stages, together with a professional philosopher colleague. The school's financial support was terminated in May 2022 on account of the political situation.