Shelly Kraicer

• Member of Advisory Board Film Critic and programmer

Shelly Kraicer is a writer and cinema curator based in Toronto Canada. Educated at Yale University, he lived for twelve year in Beijing. He has written film criticism in Cinema Scope, Positions, Cineaste, the Village Voice, and the New York Times. He has been programmer for Chinese language films at the Vancouver international Film Festival since 2007, and has been a consultant for the Venince, Udine, Dubai, and Rotterdam International Film Festivals. Shelly co-founded Cinema On the Edge in 2015, an organization deveted to promoting and screening independent Chinese films around the world.