Christopher Small

Christopher Small is a film critic, programmer, and publisher living in Prague, Czech Republic. He has overseen the Locarno Critics Academy since 2017 and since 2023 is responsible for the publications of the Festival, including its daily magazine, Pardo. For four years, he was the international curator for the documentary VOD platform DAFilms.com and the festival association Doc Alliance. He was on the Selection Committee for Sheffield DocFest from 2019-21 and curated the festival's 2020 retrospective "Reimagining the Land". As a writer, he has regularly contributed to a number of international outlets and has been translated into a dozen languages. He also co-founded and programmed the independent cinema Kino Petrohradská in Prague from 2021-23. He is the founder, co-editor, and publisher of Outskirts Film Magazine, a yearly print publication devoted to the cinema of the past and present.