tt stern-enzi
ContributerHaving spent 20 years as a freelance writer and film critic in the Greater Cincinnati region (covering the film industry and film festivals with the alt-weekly Cincinnati CityBeat and television affiliate Fox19, while earning distinction as an accredited critic on Rotten Tomatoes and membership in the Critics Choice Association), tt stern-enzi began curating film programs at the Mini Microcinema and other regional venues, also serving on the advisory board for the University of Cincinnati Center for Film & Media Studies. These efforts have paved the way for tt to step into the role of lead programmer/curator for the rebranded Over-the-Rhine International Film Festival during its first two years before settling into the position of artistic director for the 2021 edition. He is also a board member of the Film Festival Alliance and Art House Convergence.
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This year's Sundance Film Festival presented a host of celebrities whose legacies continue to garner attention and maintain a grip on the collective consciousness. -
The year was one of stern-enzi's favorite years in some time. -
This new trend is currently in play and offering an unprecedented blueprint for the future of not only these stories, but also for the film and streaming collaborative model moving forward. -
Every music lover has their favorite artist and memories ready for endless looped playback, but this current focus on the performers and the behind-the-scenes examinations of their work feels different. -
TIFF, along with Telluride and Venice, serve as the triumvirate of festivals that kicks off the stampede that ends with the crowning of the best films of the year. -
Film critic tt stern-enzi on the films and shows intent on forcing us to confront what lurks in the dark. -
"Nothing about us without us" is a rallying cry, most recently pronounced among the disability community as efforts are made to guarantee greater representation in front of and behind the camera. -
The notion of the singular visionary matters so much, because they, like the novelists who explore the lives of recurring protagonists, maintain the greatest degree of control over their worlds and characters we continue to want to spend time with, film critic tt stern enzi writes. -
A truly stupendous premise for a television or streaming series is confined to certain obvious limits, but what happens when a storyteller dares to dream big and move things to the big screen? -
Or, how film critic tt stern-enzi got bitten by the reality TV bug.
