Coming from Gateshead, UK, Michael Pattison is a film critic whose writing has appeared in Sight & Sound, Indiewire, VICE, Ekran, KINO!, SIRP, MUBI and other publications. He has tutored workshops for young critics at Warsaw IFF, Dokufest in Prizren, ZubrOFFka Short Film Festival in Białystok and Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn. Michael has also appeared on juries at film festivals in Cartagena de Indias, Ljubljana, Warsaw, Drama, Thessaloniki, Lisbon, Santiago de Compostela, Lecce, Lima and Bradford.