Demetrios Matheou

After starting his journalistic career as a newspaper reporter, Demetrios gravitated towards arts and culture. He worked as a television critic, theatre critic and architectural journalist, before turning to film in 1996, as news editor of Premiere magazine’s UK edition.

His film writing has since appeared in most of Britain’s broadsheets, including the Guardian, the Observer, the Times and Sunday Times and the Independent on Sunday. He has been the film critic for Scotland’s Sunday Herald since 2004, and is a member of the collective of journalists who produce The Arts Desk website, where he reviews both films and theatre.

Demetrios is the author of The Faber Book of New South American Cinema (2010). In the same year he co-curated ‘South American Renaissance’, a major retrospective season for the British Film Institute. He has collaborated with a number of Latin American festivals in London, and this year co-curated the city’s first Argentine Film Festival.

Other film books to which he has contributed include Cinema: The Whole Story and Ten Bad Dates with De Niro.

Follow him on Twitter @dem2112

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