Marina Kostova

Marina Kostova is an award-winning journalist, one of the leading film critics and reporters in Republic of North Macedonia. She is a founding member and Deputy of Editor in Chief of www.sdk.mk digital newsroom.

She was a founding member and Deputy of Editor in Chief of Vest Daily, at the time the biggest newspaper in the country.

She is the president of the Macedonian Section of International Federation of Film Critics – FIPRESCI.

She edited the books “Manchevski Monograph”, and “Rain – The World About Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain”, as well as the CD-ROM “Macedonia in the New York Times Archives”, and published a hybrid collection of short stories “Language is a Strange Beast”. She worked on research in films as well.

She participated in FIPRESCI critics juries at number of film festivals (Venice, Sarajevo, Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Viennale, Oberhausen, Chemnitz, Mannheim, Cluj-Napoca among others).