Phillip Bergson

Writing 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

• in 57^th Berlinale 2007
• in 7^th Bratislava International Film Festival 2005
• in 5^th Lecce Festival of European Cinema 2004
• in 51^st Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival 2001
• in 54^th Locarno International Film Festival 2001
• in 20^th Haifa International Film Festival 2004
• in 34^th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1999
• in 16^th Istanbul International Film Festival 1997
• in 9^th Festroia International Film Festival 1993
• in 43^rd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 2000
• in 48^th International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg 1999
• in 41^st Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2000
• in 33^rd Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival 1995
• in 41^st International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg 1992
• in 37^th International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg 1988
• in 39^th International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg 1990
• in 39^th Montreal World Film Festival 2015
• in 45^th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 2002
• in 16^th Riga International Film Forum Arsenals 2002
• in 9^th Cottbus Festival of East European Cinema 1999

and a member of  International Juries at

Thessaloniki, Europa Cinema (Rimini), Munich Documentary, Manaki Brothers,Cine Jove (Valencia),Chicago, TIFF-ODA, SOFIA...