Phillip Bergson

Phillip Bergson. Winner of the Student Journalist of the Year competition in the UK weekly New Statesman, as a Classics Scholar Phillip Bergson then founded the Oxford Film Festival and, on graduating, was selected by “The Sunday Times” as a ‘New Critic’ and in the same week began broadcasting on film for many BBC Radio programmes. A contributor to the “Times Literary Supplement”, “TES”, “Screen International”, “Film Bulletin”, “Film a Doba” inter alia, he also worked for the “European Script Fund”, has scripted shorts and features (that have been produced and released) and, fluent in eight-and-a-half languages, currently programmes and advises several international film festivals. At the National Media Museum in his native Yorkshire, he created the “Eurovisions” project, to promote classic and contemporary European cinema.