Anna Bogutskaya

Anna Bogutskaya is a critic, author, film programmer and podcaster. As a writer she has contributed to BBC Culture, The Guardian, Little White Lies, MUBI, New Statesman, The Face, LA Review of Books, TimeOut, Sight & Sound, amongst others, and publishes the film newsletter Admit One on Substack. In 2024 she was shortlisted for the Anthony Burgess/Observer Prize for Arts Criticism. She has programmed films and events for the BFI, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. In the past, she worked at El Deseo, was the Festival Director of Underwire Festival and the Film and Events Programmer at the BFI, where she curated many seasons and created the Woman With A Movie Camera Summit. She produces and hosts the horror film podcast The Final Girls, co-produces and co-hosts Peak TV, created the horror anthology podcast Eerie and has produced podcasts for Paramount, Studiocanal, BFI and Vertigo Releasing, as well as contributing to many others. She has written two non-fiction books, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate (Sourcebooks, 2023) and Feeding the Monster (Faber, 2024), and is working on her third.