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Mihai Chirilov lives in Bucharest. He is a film critic and the artistic director of the Transylvania International Film Festival, which he co founded in 2002. In addition, Chirilov works as a curator for the Romanian Film Festival in New York, in partnership with TribecaCinemas. He has served as jury member at film festivals such as Hong Kong, Berlin, Gothenburg, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco and Moscow, among others. He writes for several publications, runs a film and music website called Rekino, and is coauthor of a book about Lars von Trier, The Films, the Women, the Ghosts. He translated into Romanian two of Chuck Palahniuk’s novels, Choke and Diary.