The Future Of Shorts: Leave The Bubble, Unleash The Shorts!

Panel Talk

After graduating from UCLA, Cynthia Felando worked as an art house and film festival programmer. Primary teaching and research interests include American film history and culture, youth culture and media, contemporary trends in international cinema, and the history and criticism of short films. She is also the editor of the peer-reviewed journal Short Film Studies, and is a past recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award awarded by UCSB’s Academic Senate.

Anne Gaschütz is a festival organiser and programmer. She joined Filmfest Dresden in 2013 as part of the selection committee and became the festival’s co-director in July 2020. In 2021, she joined the Pardi di Domani selection committee at the Locarno Film Festival. She is also one of the initiators of Talking Shorts, an online platform that focuses on short film criticism. Gaschütz is a member of the European Film Academy.

Savina Petkova is a Bulgarian freelance film critic and programmer based in London. Most of all, she’s a co-editor at Talking Shorts.

Laura Walde completed her PhD thesis titled “Brevity –Format –Program: The Short Film and Its Exhibition” at the University of Zurich in 2022. Since 2013, she has been a curator/programmer for Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, where she was also the programme coordinator for a few years.