Very much looking forward to celebrating @lafilmcritics’ latest pair of scholarship winners this weekend. Congratulations Sebastian Carrasco and ellie sunlight moon (@naproxen.bsky.social)! 📽️ #criticslife
ONE MORE DAY to both our awards vote and our scholarship application deadline!
LAFCA, with support from @rottentomatoes.com, is offering TWO $3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS to aspiring film critics attending L.A.-area community colleges. Apply by Dec. 7: bit.ly/LAFCAScholarship2025
#filmcritic #scholarship
Two more days to apply for LAFCA’s scholarship!
LAFCA, with support from @rottentomatoes.com, is offering TWO $3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS to aspiring film critics attending L.A.-area community colleges. Apply by Dec. 7, and spread the word! bit.ly/LAFCAScholarship2025
#filmcritic #scholarship
We are counting down to LAFCA’s awards vote—and the close of applications for our 2025 scholarship!
LAFCA, with support from @rottentomatoes.com, is offering 2 $3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS to aspiring film critics attending L.A.-area community colleges: bit.ly/LAFCAScholarship2025 Apply today!
We are so excited to hear our very own Managing Editor (and past 4 issue Co-EiC & Editorial Board member) @annleee.bsky.social interviewed on Lit Mag News! Tune in on Wednesday, November 12 at 10:30 AM PT for the Q&A: litmagnews.substack.com/p/save-the-d...! See you in the Zoom room!
Aspiring film critics! LAFCA and @rottentomatoes.com are again offering TWO $3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS to students attending L.A.-area community colleges: one to a woman and one to a person from an underrepresented group(s). Apply by Dec. 7 and spread the word! bit.ly/LAFCAScholarship2025
Then peruse the latest issue of @expositionreview.bsky.social (and my last as co-EIC), “Spring,” which is blooming with short stories, poems, essays, scripts, art, and more: expositionreview.com/issues/vol-x... I would love to hear about what blossoms you find! 🌱
Thanks so much, and take care!
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Happy birthday to me! 🥳
Help me celebrate this milestone by supporting the organizations that have preoccupied me since the last time there was a zero in my age. 🧵
FILM CRITICS’ GROUPS DENOUNCE NEXSTAR AND DISNEY-ABC DECISIONS TO SUSPEND “JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!” We, the members of the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics, strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air. For decades, our organizations have represented a profession that is enabled by the First Amendment. Kimmel’s long-running talk show promotes free speech, including when it gives film artists the chance to discuss their work. There is only one word to describe the decision by powerful media corporations to silence an individual’s perspective due to fear of repercussions by the government: censorship. This is the antithesis of the values embodied by our work. We demand a reversal of this decision and encourage our colleagues across the industry to do the same.
We strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! off the air.
So excited for the eleventh season of @expositionreview.bsky.social and to see the work inspired by the theme “ParaSocial”! Submissions are open now! tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial 👥 #litmag #editorslife
Some films #DirectedbyWomen I saw last month—thoughts at #CineWomen: annleee.medium.com/cinewomen-19-c709dd248ab7
- #FreakierFriday
- #EastofWall
- #ItsNeverOverJeffBuckley
- #Folktales
- #TheBoysofBaraka
📽️ #FemaleFilmmakerFriday #52FilmsbyWomen
Also in this month’s #CineWomen column, I reflected on how one of my favorite travel activities is something I do multiple times a week at home: go to the movies. 📽️
annleee.medium.com/cinewomen-18...
Some films #DirectedbyWomen I saw this month—thoughts at #CineWomen: annleee.medium.com/cinewomen-18...
- #IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer
- #TheOldGuard2
- #OhHi
- #Girlfight
📽️ #FemaleFilmmakerFriday #52FilmsbyWomen
Welcome welcome @themaureenlee.bsky.social and @shirklesxp.bsky.social!
First up in our Vol. X: “Spring” issue spotlight, we have our fiction section, co-edited by @courtlandavenue.bsky.social & @mellindak.bsky.social w/ Heather Vaughn, featuring stories by Daphne Armbrstet, Jennifer Bannan, Briana Courtney & Valentina Gómez. Read their work: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10Spring!
Starting today, we’re sharing every piece from our 10th annual issue, Vol. X: “Spring”, which you can read for free. Tune in to our Insta Stories and Bluesky. And if you can’t wait, read the full issue here: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10Spring!
“We had an inkling—or, rather, a fear. But in the year of fire and ICE our hometown of Los Angeles has experienced so far, ‘Spring’ acutely speaks to the hope we have for recovery and resistance.”
So grateful for @annleee.bsky.social & @lilrensing.bsky.social: expositionreview.com/issues/vol-x... 🌱
We’re thrilled to have Jessica Taylor Bellamy as our Vol. X: #Spring cover artist. Jessica’s multi-disciplinary work explores “themes of utopia >< dystopia, human >< nature, fantasy >< reality, image >< text, and the collapsing of time.” Experience it here: tinyurl.com/ExpoPrecarious.
#artsky
Congrats to #ExpoContributor @varshawrites86.bsky.social on making THE WIGLEAF TOP 50 VERY SHORT FICTIONS 2025 longlist for TELL THE BEES from our “POP!” issue! @willwriteforchai.bsky.social 🥳
Thank you to @samanito.bsky.social and the @wigleaf.bsky.social team!
Read our Vol. X: “Spring” LETTER FROM THE EDITORS from Co-Editors-in Chief @annleee.bsky.social & @lilrensing.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ExpoSpringLetter. 🌱
A million thank yous to Annlee & Laura, and shoutout to Annlee, who is completing her 4-year term as Co-EiC—but thankfully, is on our Board…!
“Spring” has sprung! Happy happy publication day to @expositionreview.bsky.social! Inside you’ll find work that is moving, sometimes hard, and, most of all, hopeful. Read Vol. X at expositionreview.com. 🌱⛲️🥹 #litmag #editorslife
Folks, check out the cover for @expositionreview.bsky.social Vol. X: “Spring”! 🌱 Cannot wait to share what’s inside with you! 😍
Attention Los Angeles film critics!
The deadline to apply to join LAFCA is TONIGHT! Details here: bit.ly/JoinLAFCA
#ExpoContributor Joseph Byrd’s piece from #ExpoReview, Vol. IX: “POP!” was selected for inclusion in the 2025 Best Small Fictions! Thanks to @robertshapardbooks.bsky.social, @altcurrent.bsky.social & the BSF team for choosing this piece! Celebrate Joseph & read his piece: tinyurl.com/ExpoThings
Tix for #Sinners’ 70mm expansion are back online at AMC—highly recommend if you can snag ‘em!
Attention Los Angeles film critics!
LAFCA is now accepting membership applications through May 31! Details here: bit.ly/JoinLAFCA
I’m sorry, why do I have to work instead of rewatching Val Kilmer clips all day?
T-shirt vendors with geeky lit designs would make a killing at #AWP. LMK if I’m missing such a booth! #AWP25
