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

White Nights on the Black Sea

Jun 02, 2015 at 12:41 PM

The Romania International Film Festival celebrated its 10th edition with a hot and wild new location, the famous -if not notorious party-beach resort of Vama Veche, a mile away from the border...

Cannes-cannes-eando

May 23, 2014 at 03:13 PM

Jean-Marc Thérouanne Festival de Vesoul If you go down on the beach today may 21st - de cinq a sept- you're sure of a big surprise.....the biggest clutch of film festival directors in one...

WELCOME CROATIAN CINEMA

Oct 31, 2013 at 11:41 AM

Although the country of Croatia, which acceded to the European Union on July Ist this year, is not large in land it has a seemingly infinite number of islands,and, although its current production...

WELCOME CROATIAN CINEMA

Oct 31, 2013 at 11:41 AM

Although the country of Croatia, which acceded to the European Union on July Ist this year, is not large in land it has a seemingly infinite number of islands,and, although its current production...

LFA 10th Birthday and Future Talents Showcase

Nov 12, 2012 at 12:22 PM

There were plenty of tricks and treats at the 10th Anniversary and Graduate Showcase of the London Film Academy, with a well-attended screening in the recently-refurbished NFT 1, the largest...

Back to Byzantium: Turkish Delights at the 31st Instanbul Film Festival

Sep 01, 2012 at 04:14 PM

Whatever name you call it- Constantinople or Byzantium- or however you spell it (Graham Greene's Orient Express-connected novel, also filmed, styled it Stamboul Train), modern Istanbul is...

Reflections on a Golden Lens

Sep 09, 2014 at 01:58 AM

Nomen est omen - what's in a name? I have to title the homeland of the marvellous Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers Film Festival with considerable care, as the Artistic Director of...

FEST begins at 40!

Aug 13, 2012 at 02:17 PM

What makes a festival successful? Great films and great audiences, and Belgrade's 40th FEST had both in spades- indeed, the event was such a hit, it was extended by a day to accommodate a last-minute...

Everything's Coming Up Docs!

Jun 23, 2012 at 05:38 PM

Suddenly this summer documentary festivals seem to be mushrooming across England.On the eve of Cannes I attended a crowded croissants and coffees Launch for the Sheffield DocFest, in the smart...

A Night at the Opera

May 29, 2012 at 03:36 PM

I go back quite a way with Gaius Caligula....having studied his crazed life and inevitable death when I was a Classics Scholar at Balliol, and read his first 'biog'in Latin, what more natural than...