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Author Sofie Cato Maas

Sofie Cato Maas

Sofie Cato Maas is a Dutch film critic living and working in London where she studies Film at King’s College. She has worked for several film festivals, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam and served on several juries, including IFFR’s EYE Amsterdam’s jury in 2016 and the 28 Times Cinema at the Venice Film Festival in 2018. In 2019 she was part of the Locarno Critics Academy and Collegium at Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto in Pordenone. Visiting film festivals throughout the year, she has written for among others MUBI, Variety, FilmExplorer, EuropaCinemas and Frame.Land.

A Mirror of the Ever-Changing Cinematic Landscape: the Eclectic Oeuvre of James Scott

Sofie Cato Maas
January 2021
Interviews
When viewed in retrospect, the vast and versatile oeuvre of British director James Scott (b. 1941), the son of the famous abstract painter William Scott and sculptor Mary Scott, may be best described as a body ...

Reimagining the Film Festival Landscape in the Time of a Global Pandemic: The 27th Sheffield Doc/Fest

Sofie Cato Maas
July 2020
Festival Reports
Cinema is one of those rare forms of art where the relation and tension between aesthetics and ideology, past and present, and formalism and realism, come forward. In such times when the lived reality seems to ...

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