Bio

Daria Badior

Cultural journalist, editor, film critic, festival programmer

Daria Badior is a cultural critic, journalist and editor from Ukraine.

From 2011 till 2021 she had worked as an editor at one of Ukraine’s most prominent online outlets LB.ua. Since 2016, she was a Culture Editor there and wrote about film, cultural policies, commemoration policies, etc.

Daria was a member of FIPRESCI and the Ukrainian Oscar committee. In 2018, she co-founded the Union of Film Critics of Ukraine that awards best Ukrainian filmmakers with Kinokolo prize.

Since 2017, she is the co-curator at Kyiv Critics’ Week film festival which takes place annually at the end of October.

Now she is a freelancer, contributing to Ukrainian and international outlets: LB.ua, Korydor, Osteuropa, The Independent, Der Tagesspiegel, OKO press, etc.