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​Future Leaders 2024: film festival programmers and curators to watch 4s5034

2024-05-14T10:34:00Z n6gu

Screen International trains the Future Leaders spotlight on up-and-coming names among festival programmers and curators.

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2024-05-14T09:14:00Z

The two Lyon natives took very different paths to ing the Institut Lumière. 

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Future Leaders 2024: Mouwafak Chourbagui (Egypt) 3o3q1n

2024-05-14T09:13:00Z

Chourbagui has been part of El Gouna Film Festival’s programming team since its launch in 2017.

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Future Leaders 2024: Koen de Rooij (Netherlands) 135gc

2024-05-14T09:10:00Z

de Rooij is programmer, feature films and short films, International Film Festival Rotterdam.

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2024-05-14T09:08:00Z

He is especially ionate about Arab cinema, as well as cinema from the rest of the global south.

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Future Leaders 2024: Kate Fitzpatrick (Australia) 32c4d

2024-05-14T09:06:00Z

Fitzpatrick is programmer at Melbourne International Film Festival.

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Future Leaders 2024: Anja Fröhner (Switzerland) 5q3r2a

2024-05-14T09:05:00Z

Fröhner is head of programme and guests at Zürich Film Festival.

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Future Leaders 2024: Gu Pengyuan (China) 4v2z6n

2024-05-14T09:03:00Z

In his role as Head of Programme at FIFF, he helped discover Lan Tian’s Southern Afternoon.

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Future Leaders 2024: Viknesh Kobinathan (Singapore) 1h7359

2024-05-14T09:01:00Z

Kobinathan is film programmer is Singapore’s Asian Film Archive.

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Future Leaders 2024: Chris Kumar (UK) 5m5y3u

2024-05-14T08:59:00Z

Kumar is film programmer and programme coordinator at the Glasgow Film Festival.

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Future Leaders 2024: Dorota Lech (Canada) 6s482k

2024-05-14T08:58:00Z

“The audience at TIFF is very curious and very adventurous.”

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Future Leaders 2024: Pony Ma (Taiwan) 3z6g2m

2024-05-14T08:55:00Z

She has worked with fellow programmer Hung Jianluen to curate the entire Taipei Film Festival selection of around 130 films between just the two of them.

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Future Leaders 2024: Hind Mezaina (UAE) 4r6x3s

2024-05-14T08:53:00Z

One of her career highlights was creating a film programme titled Bayn Al Khaleej at Nyuad Art Gallery which showed films from the Gulf region.  

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Future Leaders 2024: Vanja Milena Munjin Paiva (Chile, Portugal) 1q5fh

2024-05-14T08:45:00Z

After ing the festival’s team in 2019, she created Tramas at Chile’s FICValdivia.

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Future Leaders 2024: Hanna Reifgerst () 4w6c6z

2024-05-14T08:43:00Z

“There is nothing better than the pure joy and awe of a young audience.”

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Future Leaders 2024: K.J. Relth-Miller (US) 4s4f30

2024-05-14T08:41:00Z

She is in thrall to the wonders of 70mm projections, nitrate prints and curating esoteric film series 

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Future Leaders 2024: Francis Román (US) 1t3t1

2024-05-14T08:41:00Z

Rejecting films is the toughest part of Roman’s job at SXSW.

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Future Leaders 2024: Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal (Mexico and Iceland) 226s1f

2024-05-14T08:38:00Z

Bernal works for Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival and Reykjavik International Film Festival.

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Future Leaders 2024: Kimberley Sheehan (UK) 333jb

2024-05-14T08:36:00Z

She’s curating a programme at BFI Southbank this summer called Discomfort Movies, which examines films that trigger fear, stress and anxiety 

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Future Leaders 2024: Ana Souza (US) 5k271h

2024-05-14T08:33:00Z

She programmes for the Midnight section at Sundance.