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Author Sofie Cato Maas

Sofie Cato Maas

Sofie Cato Maas is a film critic, academic and editor based in New York where she is completing a PhD in Cinema at NYU after studying film at King's College London and the University of Oxford. She is a co-founder of Outskirts Film Magazine and has worked for several film festivals and served on several juries, including IFFR, CPH:DOX’s Next:Wave jury and Opus Bonum Jury at the Ji.hlava lDFF. She is a Dear Doc fellowship at Doc’s Kingdom (2023), Le Giornate del Cinema Muto’s Collegium (2022), and the Locarno Critics Academy (2019) alumnus and has written for MUBI Notebook, The New Left Review, La Vida Util, and Balthazar Filmkritik.

Nothing will be left but memories

Sofie Cato Maas
October 2022
Festival Reports
French writer Roger Martin du Gard believed that there was more truth to be found in a memory itself than in a written down version in a diary. Despite this belief, he dedicated his life to writing and recordin...

Alberto Lattuada at the 74th Locarno Film Festival

Sofie Cato Maas
October 2021
Festival Reports
“The cinema is unequaled for revealing all the basic truths about a nation.” Alberto Lattuada Two years since the last physical edition of Locarno, the festival’s message of hope is displayed brightly in bold...

Surviving You, Always: An Interview with Director Morgan Quaintance

Sofie Cato Maas
May 2021
Interviews
Among the shorts selected for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition at the much anticipated (partially) online 50th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), now under the new direction of Vanja...

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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