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

and a member of International Juries at

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

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Phillip Bergson's Blogs

Les Années Dernières à Muswell Hill : Time Travel is Dangerous reviewed

Jul 25, 2025 at 02:17 PM

In these interesting times , as the Chinese apparently call our current global grimness, who wouldn't want to escape into the past,or even the future? The odd couple running a (real life) bric a...

Les Années Dernières à Muswell Hill : Time Travel is Dangerous reviewed

Jul 25, 2025 at 02:18 PM

In these interesting times , as the Chinese apparently call our current global grimness, who wouldn't want to escape into the past,or even the future? The odd couple running a (real life) bric a...

Les Années Dernières à Muswell Hill : Time Travel is Dangerous reviewed

Jul 25, 2025 at 02:18 PM

In these interesting times , as the Chinese apparently call our current global grimness, who wouldn't want to escape into the past,or even the future? The odd couple running a (real life) bric a...

3KinoFest successfully brings best new films from Visegrad countries to Prague this week

Nov 15, 2024 at 10:46 AM

From 11-16 November 2024 www.3kino.cz 11th edition of 3Kino FilmFest...

A Foggy Day in Prague Old Town

Nov 15, 2024 at 10:47 AM

I left a surprisingly sunny London City Airport not too early on Monday morning,just after the 2-minute silence for marking Remembrance for 2 World Wars at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month this...

AMERICAN STAR A shore thing

Mar 01, 2024 at 09:00 PM

AMERICAN STAR is an engaging contemporary thriller, well-directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego, colourful, intriguing and enhanced by some unexpected star turns.Ian McShane- another 81-year-old!- excels...

"The play's the thing"

Mar 01, 2024 at 02:41 PM

There have been at least 50 film versions of what is probably William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy Hamlet. There were a goodly number of silent screen shorts, and many celebrated features, most...

Oxford Gin & Media Tonics

May 12, 2023 at 11:04 PM

First held in London in 2016,The Media Production & Technology Show has clearly become the UK's largest annual event for broadcast and film-making companies to showcase their wares and latest...

Walt chez Wallace

May 05, 2022 at 08:51 AM

It may seem an unusual collaboration, to house an exquisite exhibition illuminating some of the inspirations for Walt Disney's early animated shorts and more recent, internationally successful...

Berlinale Blues

May 05, 2022 at 08:55 AM

Life is change, but as the Dalai Lama says, the Lightbub has to want to change. New dates, new directors, new directions, and what changing temperatures during this 70th edition of one of the most...