Manori Ravindran International EditorThe Belfast Film Festival has named Variety film critic Jessica Kiang and Rose Baker as its new programmers, and has also launched an inaugural feature competition.Kiang and Baker will serve as the creative leads for this year’s BFF, which runs from Nov.
3-12. Kiang will program international titles and Baker will take the lead on films from the U.K. and Ireland.Kiang has served as an international film critic for Variety since 2016, covering new releases and international film festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Karlovy Vary, San Sebastian, Sundance, Busan, Shanghai and Toronto.
She will continue reviewing for Variety. She also contributes to Sight & Sound, The New York Times, The LA Times, The Playlist, Rolling Stone, Film Comment and Criterion.
Kiang is a regular on festival juries, having recently adjudicated the main competition at the 2021 BFI London Film Festival; the main competition at the 2021 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam; and the 2019 Platform competition at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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