Author

Jay Weissberg

New York-born Jay Weissberg lives in Rome and has been a film critic for Variety since 2003, travelling to film festivals throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. He began attending the Giornate in 2001, first programming for them in 2009 with the retrospective, “Sherlock and Beyond: British Detectives in Silent Cinema,” and more recently was one of the curators of the Barrymore retrospective in 2014. He was co-curator for the Capellani programme at Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato, and is one of the organizers of the Ottoman Film Project. A frequent participant of festival juries, he’s been a guest of the Harvard Film Archives/Gulbenkian Foundation’s Cinema Dialogues, as well as acted as mentor in programs for young film critics. He was appointed director of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto (Pordenone Silent Film Festival) in October 2015.