. The International Film Festival Rotterdam is taking place online this year, and the festival has created a collection of critical texts titled Appreciation to go along with this year’s competition. I wrote about Madiano Marcheti’s feature debut, Madalena, and the article is available for free;
. The Film Quarterly webinar is available to stream on the Film Quarterly website. I had the pleasure to join editors B. Ruby Rich and João Luiz Vieira, and fellow writers Janaína Oliveira, Lívia Perez, Marcelo Ikeda, and Tatiana Monassa to talk about their Brazilian cinema dossier, which is part of their latest issue;
. I also had a great time chatting with the editor of Zapruder World, Brian J. Griffith, special issue editors André Keiji Kunigami, Daniel Fairfax, and Luca Peretti, and fellow authors Cynthia D. Porter, Daniel Fairfax, Renzo Sgolacchia, Dom Holdaway and Dalila Missero to talk about cinema and social conflict. The talk is also streaming for free on the journal’s Facebook page