Who We Are

Liberating Cinema Crew

Mina Radovic

Mina Radović

Founder, Director, Head of Programming

Mina Radović is a FIAF-trained archivist, curator, and film historian. Mina created Liberating Cinema, leading it with a vision from a university programme to a charitable organisation with an international outlook.

He has curated on all periods of film history and an expansive range of world cinema, including first time retrospectives of Yugoslav cinema in the Anglophone world, programmes on Czechoslovak, Indian, Greek, German, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, Soviet, Russian and Georgian, Egyptian, Burkinabe, Chinese, Japanese, French, and American cinemas, foci on film animation, silent cinema, avant-garde and experimental cinema as well as special sections on the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Srđan Karanović, Andrzej Munk, John Abraham, Ritwik Ghatak, and Yoshishige Yoshida.

Beginning in archiving at the Austrian Film Museum Mina completed his further training in analogue and digital film restoration with the Fédération internationale des archives du film (FIAF) at the L’immagine Ritrovata and Cineteca Bologna. He regularly contributes to peer-reviewed journals and publishes on international film festivals. Mina is currently working on his PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Indrasis Acharya

Secretary

Indrasis Acharya is an award-winning Bengali filmmaker and the Associate Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers, India. His three feature films Parcel (2020), Pupa (2018) and Bilu Rakkhosh (Bilu: A Demon Within) created a different kind of Bengali space at the intersection of genre and art film, focusing to salvage the pride of Bangla cinema in the international arena.

Indrasis has more than 20 years of experience as a Project Manager in the different fields of Technology and Consulting Services. Having worked in the USA, Europe and Africa he has had the privilege of experiencing and exploring different lives from different perspectives.

Being an avid lover of nature, art and literature, his inspiration comes from his love for life and exploring life beyond the realms of everyday existence. He is currently working on his unconventional new age fast paced Hindi rural political Thriller Dust and Pebbles.

Steven D. Martz

Treasurer

Steven D. Martz works in investment management and is a Teaching Fellow at Edinburgh University delivering courses in Existentialism, politics and religion, and sources of identity. 

He has previously been involved in heading up various committees at Edinburgh University, setting policies with charities, and has experience working with local government in Canada. 

He received his PhD in 2012 (Edinburgh University), specialising in 18th and 19th century German and European thought specifically focusing on the relationship between language, freedom and reason in the works of J.G. Hamann and Søren Kierkegaard. In his free time, Steven enjoys film, facilitating public philosophy engagement and wild swimming in the lakes of northern Ontario.