GRFS Workshop: Film Criticism

Schedule

Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1110 Wealthy St SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506-1543, United States | Grand Rapids, MI

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Do you write about movies somewhere online? Are you interested in learning more about film criticism? Are you on Letterboxd?
Join us for our film criticism workshop where local critic Joshua Polanski will introduce different approaches to film criticism and provide tips and strategies to improve your reviews before we workshop reviews together!
We will also discuss how to pitch publications and start getting published.
What you need to do: watch a movie, any movie(!), the night before the workshop and come prepared to brainstorm and write about it. If you take notes, even better!
This event is sponsored by the Midwest Film Journal. MFJ gladly invites interested writers to pitch relevant articles for consideration.
Please RSVP at: https://grcmc.vbotickets.com/event/GRFS_Film_Criticism/170859
About Joshua Polanski
Joshua is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved freelance film and culture writer based in Grand Rapids. His interests include the technical elements of filmmaking & exhibition, slow & digital cinemas, and cinematic sexuality. He writes a lot about non-English cinemas and his column on Baltic cinema is the only column with regular coverage of Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian film in the English language.
He regularly writes for the Boston Hassle, In Review Online, and Midwest Film Journal, while also contributing to the Bay Area Reporter, Klassiki Journal, Off Screen, and DMovies among an endless list of other publications. His website is called There Were No Gods Left. He is a member of the Michigan Movie Critics Guild.
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