Mihai Chirilov

Mihai Cristian Chirilov (b. Dec. 8 1971, Tulcia- Romania), is a Romanian film critic- one of the most influential of his generation- and artistic director of the Transilvania International Film Festival- TIFF (Cluj- Romania).

Biography

Mihai Chirilov was born in Tulcia (Romania) in December 8, 1971. He moved to Bucharest in the early '90. There he started writing film criticism for the weekly Dilema, and soon became vice director of another magazine called pro Cinema, also related to the Romanian TV channel.

In 2005 he founded the magazine Re:Publik, running it until 2008. He also wrote for Cosmopolitan, HBO magazin, Observator Cultural, Dilema Veche along others.

In 2002 he co-founded the Transilvania Film Fest together with producer-film director Tudor Giurgiu. Transilvania Film Fest (TIFF) is the most important film festival in Romania and one of the biggest in Eastern Europe.

In 2006, Mihai Chirilov started the Romanian film festival in New York, an event held to promote the Romanian cinema in U.S. It was possible with the support of ICR New York (Romanian Cultural Institute) and Tribeca Cinemas.

During Fall 2011, Chirilov is the guest curator of the New Romanian Cinema series at Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville (New York). The series includes the international acclaimed 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu (Golden Palm at Cannes in 2007), Police Adjective by Corneliu Porumboiu (2009) and The autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu by Andrei Ujica (2010), along with a full retrospective of the work of filmmaker Cristi Puiu (The death of Mr. Lazarescu), and a special screening of Alexandru Tatos's Anastasia gently passes, in the presence of actress Anda Onesa. The program at J.B. Film Center was presented in partnership with the Romanian Cultural Institute of New York, and possible by the Fellowship for Understanding through Film, developed through a grant from Kathryn W. Davis with support through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

Chirilov has been serving as member of juries in many festivals, including Berlin (Berlinale), Goteborg, Chicago, Palm Springs, Cleveland, Hong Kong, Moscow, Karlovy Vary- along with many others.

Chirilov is member of FIPRESCI (The International Federation of Film Critics).

He's the Romanian translator of Chuck Palahniuk's books. He also wrote a book on Lars von Trier in collaboration with film critics Alex. Leo Șerban and Ștefan Bălan- Lars Von Trier- filmele, femeile, fantomale (Ed. Idea design & print 2006).

Mihai Chirilov currently lives between Bucharest and New York.

References

Template:Persondata Transilvania International Film Festival Romania Cultural Institute New York http://www.burnsfilmcenter.org/