Galina Stepanova

Film Studies, Programming and Curation

2022

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Work at NFTS includes:

GRADUATION FILM SEASON - Atlas of Belonging: Memory and Identity in the Cinema and Artists' Moving Image work of the Caucasus
DISSERTATION - A sense of place: identity, memory and history in the films of Chantal Akerman, Christian Petzold and Apichatpong Weerasethakul
VIDEO ESSAY - What Do We See When We Look at the Cinema Screen?
CASE STUDY - Changes of leadership and their impact on a film festival’s identity: a case study of Visions du Réel.

Additional Work:
London Film Festival - Curatorial Placement
Focal Film Awards - Student Jury Member
Film Africa - Open Submissions Viewer for short films
NFTS Backyard Cinema - Programming Team Member

Essay: Childhood and the imaginary as ways of dealing with personal and political trauma in: Víctor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive and Carlos Saura’s Cría Cuervos.

NFTS Programming Assignments:

British Cinema
The immigrant’s journey: a modern-day odyssey

Genre
“Time is out of joint”: a programme of films exploring intersections with the other world.

Documentary
Our Family Stories: parent-child relationships through the eyes of a filmmaker