Daniella Shreir
Daniella Shreir is the founder and co-editor of film journal Another Gaze and a translator and programmer. Her translation of Chantal Akerman’s My Mother Laughs (Silver Press) won a PEN prize in 2019. Together with Missouri Williams, she launched Another Gaze Editions, a new imprint dedicated to writing by women about film. These books include Lorenza Mazzetti’s The Sky Is Falling and Marguerite Duras’s My Cinema. She has programmed for festivals including Directors’ Fortnight (Cannes) and Locarno. She founded Another Screen, a streaming platform dedicated to exposing underseen 20th-century films by women. She has written for publications including the London Review of Books and Cahiers du cinéma.
Outlets: Another Gaze (editor); London Review of Books (contributor).
Instagram: @daniellas
Location: London/Paris
Movie location I call home: The bar in which two strangers dance one sweaty, insomniac Brussels summer night in Chantal Akerman's Toute une nuit (1982).
What was the film or experience that made you want to write about the screen? Discovering the feminist film journal Camera Obscura at university, where I was studying French Literature. It was the Chantal Akerman issue.
What do you think are the major issues facing contemporary film criticism? Severe lack of funding; the recent shuttering of several incredible publications that gave space to smaller and more experimental films; a general lack of political/‘real-world' engagement.
How can film criticism stay vital in 2026? By engaging better with what is happening outside of the cinema/festival context, and what economic and political forces shape cinema/festivals.
What’s one piece of advice that you’d give an emerging critic today? See previous answer. I’d also encourage emerging critics to embrace the “I” every now and then (it’s an art, but when it’s done well it’s so good).
Who’s a critic/writer that has inspired you? Elena Gorfinkel, Phil Coldiron, Serge Daney, Jenny Diski, Hannah Black.
Who’s a critic/writer that everyone should be reading right now? Audrey Wollen, Ryan Ruby, Tobi Haslett, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Yasmina Price.
What’s the best thing you’ve seen this year so far? Look, She Has Her Eyes Wide Open (Regarde, elle a les yeux grands ouverts) by Yann Le Masson (1980).
What’s your MIFF 2026 theme music? Dare I say the Neighbours theme song …?