Marina Kostova

Film Critic, North Macedonia

Marina Kostova is an award-winning journalist, one of the leading film critics and reporters in Republic of North Macedonia. She is a founding member and Deputy Editor in Chief of www.sdk.mk digital newsroom.

She was a founding member and Deputy Editor in Chief of Vest Daily, at the time the biggest newspaper in the country.

 She edited the books Manchevski Monograph, and Rain – The World About Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain, as well as the CD-ROM Macedonia in the New York Times Archives. She worked on research in films as well.

She participated in FIPRESCI critics juries at number of film festivals (Venice, Sarajevo, Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Viennale, Oberhausen, Cottbus, Chemnitz, Mannheim, Cluj-Napoca among others).