Gerald Peary

Film Critic, US

Gerald Peary is a film critic for “The Arts Fuse” in Boston, Massachusetts, and the author of nine books on the cinema. He is the writer/director of the documentary, “For the Love of Movies: the Story of American Film Criticism”, and made his acting debut in the 2013 feature, Andrew Bujalski’s “Computer Chess”.

As a Jury Member

  • 10th Hot Docs: Canadian International Documentary Festival
  • 10th Stockholm International Film Festival
  • 17th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
  • 17th Mar del Plata International Film Festival
  • 20th Miami International Film Festival
  • 21st Saguenay International Short Film Festival
  • 21st Torino Film Festival
  • 27th Rotterdam International Film Festival
  • 30th Rotterdam International Film Festival
  • 33rd Hong Kong
  • 35th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
  • 35th Moscow International Film Festival
  • 37th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
  • 3rd Bangkok Film Festival
  • 40th Seattle International Film Festival

    • Author of Reports

  • "Th-Th-Th-That's All Folks!"
    in 21st Torino Film Festival
  • A Buñuelian Look By Gerald Peary
    in 10th Hot Docs: Canadian International Documentary Festival
  • All Hail Chaitanya Tamhane
    in 17th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
  • Back to Africa and the Art of Life
    in 73rd Venice International Film Festival
  • Baha'i Baha'i Love
    in 35th Moscow International Film Festival
  • Bunuel's Los Olvidados Today Gerald Peary reviews "The Devil and the Red Page"
    in 5th Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival
  • Crimes and Punishment By Gerald Peary
    in 50th San Francisco International Film Festival
  • Dante Was Among the First Interviewers
    in 56th Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias (FICCI)
  • Melodrama at its best By Gerald Peary
    in 3rd Bangkok Film Festival
  • Monster is Back With a Vengeance
    in 5th Los Cabos International Film Festival
  • One for Them, One for Me
    in 44th Seattle International Film Festival
  • Red Knot: Liebstod in the Antarctic Snow
    in 40th Seattle International Film Festival
  • San Sebastian 2019: Blood Spilling Everywhere
    in 67th San Sebastian International Film Festival
  • Sympathy Is Not Enough
    in 21st Saguenay International Short Film Festival

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