Dorota Ostrowska is Senior Lecturer in Film and Modern Media at Birkbeck, University of London. At the School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication she directs the MA Film and Screen Media. She is the author of Reading the French New Wave: Critics, Writers and Art Cinema in France (2008) and co-editor of the volumes: Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World: Practice and Methods (2025); Popular cinemas in Central and Eastern Europe: film cultures and histories (2017) and European Cinemas in the Television Age (2007).