Image: FSPY Francine Schaepper Photography
Earlier this year, when the Melbourne International Film Festival announced that it would be running a ‘Critics Campus’ for young and emerging writers, there were rumblings in the freelance film writing community. Did we really need more snotty little film critics competing for the same tiny pool of poorly paid work? And can you really ‘teach’ a person to be a film critic? And what are film critics for, anyway, in the age of online fandom?
