Biografije

Neil Young selektor

Nil Jang je pisac, kustos i sineasta iz Sanderlenda na severoistočnoj obali Engleske, a trenutno živi u Beču. Od 2008 piše kritike novijih filmova na svim većim festivalima za Holivud Riporter a od 2010 sarađuje sa časopisom Sajt end saund. Sve vreme piše i za ostale međunarodne časopise uključujući kolumne o kratkim dokumentarcima za Modern tajms rivju.

Član je FIPRESCI i Londonskog kruga kritike. Godišnje poseti više od 25 filmskih festivala a učestvovao je u veše od 25 žirija uključujući kanski program Sedmica kritike (2013), zatim u Veneciji, Berlinu, Lokarnu, Roterdamu i Meksiko Sitiju. Trenutno radi za nekoliko festivala kao savetnik, programer i moderator. Između 2011 i 2015 bio je direktor Međunarodnog filmskog festivala u Bredfordu koji se održavao u Britanskom nacionalnom muzeju medija.  

 Dela koje je režirao uključuju kratke filmove VILNIU DETROIT (2017), TOWING DISPATCH (2018) i FICTIONAL BREWERIES (2020). Njegov 103 minuta dug eksperimentalni dokumentarac RIHACTION premijerno je prikazan na  Diagonale 2019 u Gracu. Iste godine debitovao je na velikom platnu kao glumac u filmu Džoane Hog SUVENIR producenta Martina Skorsezea, koji je pobedio na Sandens filmskom festivalu.

Neil Young is an freelance writer, curator and film-maker from Sunderland on the north-east coast of England, now resident in Vienna. He has reviewed new films at major festivals regularly for The Hollywood Reporter since 2008 and has contributed numerous features to Sight & Sound since 2010. He regularly contributes to other international publications, including a column on short documentaries for Modern Times Review. 

A member of FIPRESCI and the London Critics' Circle, he routinely attends 25+ film-festivals each year and has served on more than two dozen juries since 2001 including Cannes' Semaine de la Critique (2013) and others at Venice, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam and Mexico City (Ficunam). He currently works for several festivals in consultation, programming and/or moderation capacities including the Viennale, Vienna Shorts (as head of the Austrian national-competition section), Crossing Europe (Linz, Austria) and Kortfilmfestivalen (Grimstad, Norway). Between 2011-15 he was Director of the Bradford International Film Festival, held at the U.K.'s National Media Museum.

His films as director include the shorts VILNIU DETROIT (2017), TOWING DISPATCH (2018) and FICTIONAL BREWERIES (2020). His 103-minute experimental documentary RIHACTION premiered at the 2019 Diagonale, Graz. In the same year he made his big-screen acting debut in Joanna Hogg's Sundance-winning feature THE SOUVENIR (executive producer Martin Scorsese).