Cici Peng
@CiciPeng_
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writer and film programmer @sine_screen @queereast | words @filmcomment, @ft, @lwlies @variety @SightSoundmag @arabbitsfoot_ etc | preselector NYFF Currents
London
Joined July 2019
Excited to announce our new season and that we are now Arts Council funded!! 🥹
📣 a new season of < Vulnerable Histories>, our on-going curatorial project exploring the entangled histories of ESEA and beyond. 🎥 A line-up of screenings, artist talks and workshops across London, from now until May 2025 🎫 book from: https://t.co/dmz2gmCGf5
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Wrote about the recent wave of migration “dramas” and their problematic tendencies for @FT
https://t.co/jeW5lmtrL0
ft.com
A recent wave of movies spotlights the workers who keep our cities running in the face of an uncaring system
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At the BFI tomorrow introducing this fantastic but overlooked Akerman film! https://t.co/T90KtD3S5C
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Our Afro-Asian film festival rundown @IFFR is on the @FilmComment pod 💝🫡
I also recorded a podcast about the series with Indonesian curators Bunga Siagian and Yuki Aditya and my buddies @storebrandbrown and @CiciPeng_ if you’d like to supplement your reading w/some listening.
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Last day to apply for @queereast 's Emerging Critics Project, in collaboration with @LWLies! I'll be joining the workshops as mentors alongside @CiciPeng_ and @whateverren. Find out more details here: https://t.co/oDc6Q2GVKO
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Catch the UK Premiere of bluish on Friday at 6:45pm, with a special Q&A with director Lilith Kraxner led by @CiciPeng_. This second feature by Kraxner and Czernovsky explores identity and longing through the eyes of two twenty-something women. #OffCircuit
https://t.co/kD8jPwcyRx
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I feel like it's my duty to share this with every new Berlinale press release.
CALL FOR STRIKE: all film workers to strike Berlinale 2025, including the Talent Forum and the European Film Market. no submissions, no programs, no services -- nothing for an institution that opposes affirmations of the dignity of Palestinian life https://t.co/5djr7A2c85
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One last @Mixmag cover star of 2024: John Glacier 🧊 Shot by Simon Wheatley in Hackney. Interview by @CiciPeng_ Read: https://t.co/uXvFnwSl2a
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Screen Slate unwrapped! Thank you @ScreenSlate @NicolasRapold @NicoPSetzer for the invite! These are my fave new discoveries in 2024
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FIVE FUCKING YEARS… 🫣😂
HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY TO THE ENTIRE #QUEEREAST FAMILY. Today marks exactly five years since our very first screening @fringefilmfest on 15 Nov 2019. Time flies, and we couldn't be more proud of how far we've come. Thank you to everyone who has supported us since that night.
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Now that this is public news: very sad to hear Tomonari Nishikawa has been diagnosed with Stage IV cancer and is struggling. His wife Miki and his Binghamton colleagues have set up a fundraiser to help with immediate expenses. Help out if you can.
gofundme.com
Dear Community, It's with deep sorrow that we mourn the los… Friends of Tomonari Nishikawa needs your support for Help Support Tomonari Nishikawa's Family
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So this year's theme at B*rlinale Talents is "LISTEN COURAGEOUSLY" (!) and they're once again trying to legitimize their passive and hypocrite attitude regarding political action by hiding behind words such as "empathy" and "ambiguity". No thanks!
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Made my debut for @SightSoundmag reviewing Jem Cohen’s NYFF Currents centerpiece LITTLE, BIG AND FAR which I loved — a surprisingly grounded lyrical film about space and the stars https://t.co/Pw4cDxJMNH
bfi.org.uk
New York film essayist Jem Cohen contemplates the cosmos in a docu-fiction film following the life and work of 70-year-old Austrian astronomer named Karl.
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Seeing Kim Minhee IRL at Locarno was a surreal moment — I wrote about her groundbreaking roles in Hong Sangsoo’s films for @arabbitsfoot_ for the @ICALondon retrospective ! 🪻🪻
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As a new retrospective of Hong Sang-soo’s work takes place, @CiciPeng_ considers the centrifugal, but underlooked force of Kim Min-hee in the work of the South Korean auteur. @ICALondon #hongsangsoo #kimminhee
https://t.co/mcSD90zkoE
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My interview with Nelson de los Santos Arias for one of my fave films this year: PEPE which examines colonialism, exile and the "macho" through the voice of a hippo: "Aa, ee, oi...How do I know what a word is?" Please UK distributors, screen this film! https://t.co/m1C2tzPYpl
anothermag.com
Nelson Carlo de Los Santos’s new film is a wild fable of cultural exile and resistance, narrated by a hippo
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two films I’ve been thinking about for a long time with their radical sense of refusal ! Thanks to @devikagirgayi editor extraordinaire 💕
Now online from our @TheNYFF coverage: @CiciPeng_ writes on Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE and Mati Diop’s DAHOMEY, exploring how both films probe “the tension between visual and aural modes of transmitting memory.” https://t.co/UNrgvPgcrr
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Very excited to announce our new project designed for emerging film curators across the UK. Apply by 27 October for a chance to be part of Queer East Festival 2025.
Are you passionate about gaining hands-on experience in film curating? We’re calling for participants for #QueerEast Up Next: Future Film Curators Lab, a talent development programme designed for emerging curators across the UK. Apply by 27 October: https://t.co/yPfYtTZqr3
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📣 @ICALondon presents the #London premiere of the new 4K restoration of Charles Burnett’s singular rumination on ageing & romance The Annihilation of Fish (1999) starring the late Earl Jones alongside Lynn Redgrave. See it on the big screen fr/ 27 Sept: https://t.co/B3orGbWoB7
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