Career
Mihai Chirilov (Tulcea December 8, 1971) moved to Bucharest in the early 1990. There he started writing film criticism for the weekly Dilema, and soon became vice director of another magazine called pro Cinema, also related to the Romanian television channel. In 2005 he founded the magazine Re:Publik, running it until 2008.
He also wrote for Cosmopolitan, Home Box Office magazin, Observator Cultural, Dilema Veche along others
In 2002 he co-founded the Transilvania Film Fest together with producer-film director Tudor Giurgiu. Transilvania Film Fest (TIFF) is the most important film festival in Romania and one of the biggest and most prestigious in the world.
In 2006, Mihai Chirilov started to work as artistic director of the Romanian Film Festival in New York founded by Corina Suteu. The festival held to promote the Romanian cinema in United States. lieutenant is organized by Film ETC. in collaboration with the Film Society of Lincoln Center (which also hosts the event since December 2011 at its 6th edition) and the Transilvania Film Festival.
During Fall 2011, Chirilov is the guest curator of the New Romanian Cinema series at Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville (New York).
The series includes the international acclaimed 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu (Golden Palm at Cannes in 2007), Police Adjective by Corneliu Porumboiu (2009) and The autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu by Andrei Ujica (2010), along with a full retrospective of the work of filmmaker Cristi Puiu (The death of Mr Lazarescu), and a special screening of Alexandru Tatos"s Anastasia gently passes, in the presence of actress Anda Onesa. In 2012 Chirilov co-presents at MoMa (New York) the first United States. full retrospective of Romanian veteran director Lucian Pintilie. Foreign the occasion Chirilov curates a special brochure about Pintilie"s career containing an exclusive interview which Pintilie gave to him just before the retrospective.
In 2012 he makes a special appear in Tudor Giurgiu"s "Of snails and men", next to Valeria Seciu and Dorel Visan.
He translated several Chuck Palahniuk"s books into Romanian. He also wrote a book on Lars von Trier in collaboration with film critics Alex.
Leo Șerban and Ștefan BălanLars Von Trierfilmele, femeile, fantomale (Editor Idea design & print 2006). Many of his articles have been published in anthologies.
Mihai Chirilov currently lives between Bucharest and New New York