Teacher: Veronica Orciari

This two-day workshop (November 3–4, 2026)   is organized in collaboration with Cineuropa and draws inspiration from the GoCritic! training model, which focuses on a feminist approach to film history, theory, and criticism.

The workshop will take a practical approach: participants will acquire tools for critical analysis, complete a series of exercises, and write a critical piece. Selected texts produced during the workshop will be published on the “Another Story” and “Cineuropa” websites.

Participants will explore historical and contemporary documentaries from a feminist perspective, focusing on female directors featured in the “Another Story” catalogue and of the 67th Festival dei Popoli official programme. The sessions will examine the language used to write about cinema (films, filmmakers, history), aiming to identify and challenge established patterns as well as cultural and linguistic gaps.

The workshop is open to participants with any level of experience in film criticism and writing—from beginners to active professionals.

The sessions will be led by film critic Veronica Orciari, who studied filmmaking at the MetFilm School in London and film criticism at the "Sentieri Selvaggi" school in Rome. She writes for “Cineuropa”, “The Animation Journal”, “Licensing Magazine”, and “Filmexplorer”. She is an editor, contributor, and translator for the English-language edition of “Cinecittà News” and serves on the programming team for the Torino Film Festival. She also writes for “Directors Notes” and hosts “Deep Media Pulse”, a video podcast dedicated to cross-media and transmedia storytelling. Her online collaborations include “Modern Times Review”, “postPerspective”, and “Horror Movie Blog”. Additionally, she creates independent short films.