Steven Yates
Film Critic, UK
Steven Yates is a British Film Critic and Journalist who has been based in Berlin since 2008 during which time he has attended the Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) annually. He has been a member of FIPRESCI since 2001 and has served on festival juries since 2002, covering Europe, the CIS region and South Asia, as well as helping with the English language text supervision on the FIPRESCI website. He regularly writes for hard copy film periodicals Celluloid (Bangladesh), afterimage (USA) and Film International (UK-US) as well as numerous online publications including El Hype (Spain), Camera Lucida (Montenegro) and Kamera (UK). In addition, he has been an Assistant Programmer for National Schools Film Week and also for the Kendal Mountain Film Festival, both in the UK.