Mihai Chirilov

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR TIFF
ROMANIA

Mihai Chirilov is a film critic and the artistic director of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), which he co-founded in 2002. In addition, he works as a curator for the Romanian Film Festival ‘Making Waves’ in New York and as an artistic consultant for the documentary festival ‘fARAD’ in the city of Arad, Romania. He co-organized the complete retrospective of Lucian Pintilie’s work at MoMA and many Romanian film seasons abroad. He is a member of both FIPRESCI Association and the European Film Academy and was part of the selection panel for the Lux Prize nominations. He did jury duties at various film festivals such as Hong Kong, Berlin (including the Teddy Bear jury), Karlovy-Vary, Gothenburg, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, Haifa, Gijon, D’A Barcelona and Moscow, among many others. He attended various Labs as an expert providing feedback on film projects (Transilvania Talent Lab, D’A Lab in Barcelona, ‘Semilleru’ in Gijon, Interseccion in A Coruna and ‘Springboard’ in Plzen, Czech Republic). He contributed to several film anthologies and is the coauthor of a book about Lars von Trier, The Films, the Women, the Ghosts. He translated into Romanian three of Chuck Palahniuk’s novels, Choke, Snuff and Diary. He lives in Bucharest.