Annlee Ellingson

Save the Dates! November Interviews & Info Sessions! what's going on...

We are so excited to hear our very own Managing Editor (and past 4 issue Co-EiC & Editorial Board member) @annleee.bsky.social interviewed on Lit Mag News! Tune in on Wednesday, November 12 at 10:30 AM PT for the Q&A: litmagnews.substack.com/p/save-the-d...! See you in the Zoom room!

Aspiring film critics! LAFCA and @rottentomatoes.com are again offering TWO $3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS to students attending L.A.-area community colleges: one to a woman and one to a person from an underrepresented group(s). Apply by Dec. 7 and spread the word! bit.ly/LAFCAScholarship2025

Then peruse the latest issue of @expositionreview.bsky.social (and my last as co-EIC), “Spring,” which is blooming with short stories, poems, essays, scripts, art, and more: expositionreview.com/issues/vol-x... I would love to hear about what blossoms you find! 🌱

Thanks so much, and take care!

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FILM CRITICS’ GROUPS DENOUNCE NEXSTAR AND DISNEY-ABC DECISIONS TO SUSPEND “JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!” We, the members of the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics, strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air. For decades, our organizations have represented a profession that is enabled by the First Amendment. Kimmel’s long-running talk show promotes free speech, including when it gives film artists the chance to discuss their work. There is only one word to describe the decision by powerful media corporations to silence an individual’s perspective due to fear of repercussions by the government: censorship. This is the antithesis of the values embodied by our work. We demand a reversal of this decision and encourage our colleagues across the industry to do the same.

We strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! off the air.

So excited for the eleventh season of @expositionreview.bsky.social and to see the work inspired by the theme “ParaSocial”! Submissions are open now! tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial 👥 #litmag #editorslife

Some films #DirectedbyWomen I saw last month—thoughts at #CineWomen: annleee.medium.com/cinewomen-19-c709dd248ab7
- #FreakierFriday
- #EastofWall
- #ItsNeverOverJeffBuckley
- #Folktales
- #TheBoysofBaraka

📽️ #FemaleFilmmakerFriday #52FilmsbyWomen

Also in this month’s #CineWomen column, I reflected on how one of my favorite travel activities is something I do multiple times a week at home: go to the movies. 📽️

annleee.medium.com/cinewomen-18...

CineWomen 18: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson waxes nostalgic with ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’… Plus Victoria Mahoney directs a sequel to ‘The Old Guard,’ Sophie Brooks says ‘Oh, Hi,’ and Karyn Kusama’s ‘Girlfight’ turns twenty-five.

Some films #DirectedbyWomen I saw this month—thoughts at #CineWomen: annleee.medium.com/cinewomen-18...

- #IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer
- #TheOldGuard2
- #OhHi
- #Girlfight

📽️ #FemaleFilmmakerFriday #52FilmsbyWomen

Welcome welcome @themaureenlee.bsky.social and @shirklesxp.bsky.social!

First up in our Vol. X: “Spring” issue spotlight, we have our fiction section, co-edited by @courtlandavenue.bsky.social & @mellindak.bsky.social w/ Heather Vaughn, featuring stories by Daphne Armbrstet, Jennifer Bannan, Briana Courtney & Valentina Gómez. Read their work: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10Spring!

Starting today, we’re sharing every piece from our 10th annual issue, Vol. X: “Spring”, which you can read for free. Tune in to our Insta Stories and Bluesky. And if you can’t wait, read the full issue here: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10Spring!

“We had an inkling—or, rather, a fear. But in the year of fire and ICE our hometown of Los Angeles has experienced so far, ‘Spring’ acutely speaks to the hope we have for recovery and resistance.”
So grateful for @annleee.bsky.social & @lilrensing.bsky.social: expositionreview.com/issues/vol-x... 🌱

Check out our Vol. X: “Spring”Masthead! expositionreview.com/issues/vol-x... 🌱

We’re thrilled to have Jessica Taylor Bellamy as our Vol. X: #Spring cover artist. Jessica’s multi-disciplinary work explores “themes of utopia >< dystopia, human >< nature, fantasy >< reality, image >< text, and the collapsing of time.” Experience it here: tinyurl.com/ExpoPrecarious.

#artsky

Congrats to #ExpoContributor @varshawrites86.bsky.social on making THE WIGLEAF TOP 50 VERY SHORT FICTIONS 2025 longlist for TELL THE BEES from our “POP!” issue! @willwriteforchai.bsky.social 🥳

Thank you to @samanito.bsky.social and the @wigleaf.bsky.social team!

Read our Vol. X: “Spring” LETTER FROM THE EDITORS from Co-Editors-in Chief @annleee.bsky.social & @lilrensing.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ExpoSpringLetter. 🌱
A million thank yous to Annlee & Laura, and shoutout to Annlee, who is completing her 4-year term as Co-EiC—but thankfully, is on our Board…!

“Spring” has sprung! Happy happy publication day to @expositionreview.bsky.social! Inside you’ll find work that is moving, sometimes hard, and, most of all, hopeful. Read Vol. X at expositionreview.com. 🌱⛲️🥹 #litmag #editorslife

Folks, check out the cover for @expositionreview.bsky.social Vol. X: “Spring”! 🌱 Cannot wait to share what’s inside with you! 😍

a man playing drums with the words " this is your last chance " above him ALT: a man playing drums with the words " this is your last chance " above him

Attention Los Angeles film critics!

The deadline to apply to join LAFCA is TONIGHT! Details here: bit.ly/JoinLAFCA

#ExpoContributor Joseph Byrd’s piece from #ExpoReview, Vol. IX: “POP!” was selected for inclusion in the 2025 Best Small Fictions! Thanks to @robertshapardbooks.bsky.social, @altcurrent.bsky.social & the BSF team for choosing this piece! Celebrate Joseph & read his piece: tinyurl.com/ExpoThings

Tix for #Sinners’ 70mm expansion are back online at AMC—highly recommend if you can snag ‘em!

Attention Los Angeles film critics!

LAFCA is now accepting membership applications through May 31! Details here: bit.ly/JoinLAFCA

I’m sorry, why do I have to work instead of rewatching Val Kilmer clips all day?

T-shirt vendors with geeky lit designs would make a killing at #AWP. LMK if I’m missing such a booth! #AWP25

And that’s a wrap on #AWP25 Day 2!!

🥳 TONIGHT! Celebrate 10 years of @expositionreview.bsky.social @ Truly LA from 7-10 PM! Join us for our in-person, #AWP25 off-site, literary citizenship extravaganza! We hope to see you there: partiful.com/e/eDO1yhEJWzBaZA5GUgGk

U.S. FILM CRITICS’ GROUPS 
CONDEMN VIOLENCE AGAINST HAMDAN BALLAL We, the members of the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Boston Society of Film Critics, express our support for the Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal and condemn, in the strongest terms, the brutal and unlawful attack he suffered this week at the hands of Israeli settlers, as well as his detainment by Israeli authorities. We are gravely concerned for Mr. Ballal’s health and safety, as well as the safety of his loved ones, and, now that he has been released, extend our hopes for his full recovery from his injuries. Mr. Ballal was assaulted near his home in Khirbet Susya, a village in the Masafer Yatta region of the occupied West Bank. Attacks on the residents of Masafer Yatta are nothing new, as we have seen from “No Other Land,” the Academy Award-winning documentary that Mr. Ballal co-directed with Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor. As critics representing four of the numerous organizations that honored “No Other Land” as the best documentary of 2024, we are infuriated that a filmmaker’s brave and principled advocacy has made him even more of a target in a community where Palestinians already exist under continual threat of displacement and violence. One of the most powerful aspects of “No Other Land” — and the reason so many have tried, in vain, to limit its reach and silence its message — is that it is itself a rare feat of collaboration between Palestinian and Israeli journalists, activists, and artists, united by their belief in dignity and equality for all. By the very nature of its form and creation, the film represents, and dares to imagine, a more peaceful future. We applaud Mr. Ballal and his colleagues for the courage and artistry with which they have advanced that vision and affirm that it will never be forgotten.

We join our colleagues in @nsfc.bsky.social, @nyfcc.bsky.social and @bsfc.bsky.social in condemning the attack on NO OTHER LAND co-director Hamdan Ballal.

Goodness it’s dusty at the #WriteGirl #songwriting workshop and showcase! 😭 #ImNotCryingYoureCrying 🎤 #WeWriteTheSongs