Journalist and cultural project manager. Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Belarusian State University, studied at the IBB Minsk School of Social Journalism, studied with the Media Makes Future Supporting Young Journalists program in Germany. Graduated from the Mini-MBA program in media management. Works for Belarusian and Ukrainian independent media, writes about culture and cinema. Member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists. Curates media at the Northern Lights Film Festival and VODBLISK streaming website.
Culture, film and media expert, cultural activist, teacher, journalist. The author of various analytical publications and the creator and host of a number of TV and radio shows dedicated to Belarusian culture. Published books of essays No Style. BelCUlt between Woodstock and "Dazhynki" and SloMo. Domestic Critique of Cultural Design. Ph.D. in Philosophy, Associate Professor. Area of interest – modern cultural situation, cultural paradigm shifts in post-Soviet societies.
Volha Isakava is a Professor at Central Washington University, United States. Her research area is on cinemas and popular visual cultures of East Slavic countries. Her most recent publications are on Belarusian horror cinema in Monstrum (2023), Russian queer web television in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (2023), and cinematic representations of the war in Ukraine in Cursed Zones: Contemporary Slavic Horror Across Media (2025). She is currently co-editing a book “Visual Culture of Belarus in the 21st century” (to be published in 2026), and a special issue on Belarusian cinema for the Apparatus journal.
Belarusian film critic and journalist, a member of the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI, Golden Globe Awards voter for three years. Co-founder of Belarusian Independent Film Academy (BIFA). Kaciałovič acted as a member of the jury at film festivals in Belarus, Germany, Croatia, Poland, and Ukraine. She worked as a film critic and cultural journalist for Zvyazda and Nasha Niva, wrote reviews for Radio Svaboda, was an editor and host of a show about culture for Belsat TV channel.
Sasha Razor is a lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in Russophone and East-Central European cinemas. She earned her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA in 2020, with a dissertation on Soviet screenwriting of the 1920s–30s. Her research spans avant-garde cinema and literature, Belarusian and Ukrainian culture, activism, and visual arts. In addition to her academic work, Razor is a curator, journalist, and co-founder of the Russophone Los Angeles Research Collective. She is currently co-editing Belarusian Visual Culture in the 21st Century (under contract with Bloomsbury Press) and a special issue on Belarusian cinema for Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe.
She began her career in cultural journalism in the online magazine about theater and other arts Kultprosvet. She worked as a cultural columnist and film critic for TUT.by. Now a freelancer, she writes film reviews for major publications.
Film expert, publicist, festival organizer and journalist, the European Film Academy and FIPRESCI member, founding member of the Belarusian Independent Film Academy. In 1999-2004 he hosted weekly shows on motion pictures for a variety of radio stations and TV channels in Minsk. For 11 years (2010-2020) he served as a program director for the Listapad International Film Festival in Minsk. Since 2022 he serves as an Advisory Board Member of programming at the Odesa IFF and as a senior programmer for the Warsaw IFF. Worked as Eastern European film market consultant for the European Film Market at Berlinale’23.
Belarusian journalist, film critic and culture expert. He has been working in the media for more than 15 years, and published in more than 40 outlets in Belarus, Ukraine and EU countries. Tarnalitsky is currently working as a journalist for Euroradio and Budzma. He’s a founder of Holy Belawood Telegram channel, meant to popularize Belarusian cinema, as well as a co-author of Belarus Movie Theater podcast. Member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, Belarusian Independent Film Academy (BIFA), and the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI.
Ph.D. in Social Philosophy, Professor at the Dept. of Social Sciences, Academic Director of MA programme in Gender Studies, co-Founder of the Laboratory for Studies of Visual Culture and Contemporary Art at the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania). She taught and conducted research at universities and research institutes in Italy, Germany, Great Britain, USA, France, Hungary, Austria, Finland and other countries. Area of research: theory and methodology of visual culture research, film theory, semiotics, gender representation in visual culture and media, knowledge politics in Eastern Europe; art and politics.
Journalist, film critic, media manager, member of the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at BSU, interned in Sweden, Moscow and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. She worked for TUT.by, Sapiens magazine, and at the Listapad International Film Festival in Minsk. She wrote for Iskusstvo kino (Film Art) magazine, BelGazeta, Bolshoi and other media.
