FILM CRITICS JURY


Gabe Klinger (USA)

Gabe Klinger, a Chicago-based writer, programmer and teacher was born in São Paulo, Brazil. A critic and journalist, he has written for over twenty journals including De Filmkrant in Holland, Ekran in Slovenia, indieWIRE, Letras de cine in Spain, and
Undercurrent. He currently serves as an adjunct professor in the Film and Video Department at Columbia College where he teaches courses on Brazilian Cinema and will be teaching a course on New Chinese Cinema in Fall 2007. He has lectured on film at the Alliance Francaise in Chicago, Harvard University, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago.

Ray Pride (USA)

Ray Pride has been in the dark for over 20 years, writing about movies for, among others, Chicago's Newcity and Reader, as well as stints as a columnist at indieWIRE and Nerve. A contributing editor of Filmmaker and Cinema Scope, he has also written for Salon, the BBC, Time Out New York, and written reviews, interviews and festival reports for indieWIRE. He was a guest critic on Siskel & Ebert in 1999. He edits the daily Movie City Indie column (moviecityindie.com) and contributes to Movie City News (moviecitynews.com). His photography, which has been exhibited in numerous Chicago galleries, is linked, along with other projects (including several documentary shorts), at raypride.com as well as at Chicago art site Sharkforum, (Sharkforum.org). There’s always a deadline.

Hank Sartin (USA)

Hank Sartin is the Film Editor of Time Out Chicago. He has been a film critic for fourteen years, publishing in the Chicago Reader, the Chicago Free Press, the Windy City Times, and other publications. He also holds a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Chicago ( a dissertation on Warner Brothers’ cartoons). He has taught journalism and cinema studies at the University of Chicago, the University of Notre Dame, and Columbia College. A regular contributor to WGN AM 720, where he discusses film on a monthly basis.