Andrew Heskins
Andrew Heskins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1972 (age 53–54) |
| Occupation | Film critic |
Andrew Heskins (born 1972) is a British film critic. He founded the film website easternKicks in 2002 and co-founded the Focus Hong Kong film festival in 2023.
Biography
[edit]Heskins was born in 1972.[1] He was introduced to Asian cinema when he watched the Monkey TV series in the late 1970s.[2] During the 1980s and 1990s, his interest in Asian cinema started after watching Japanese television drama and Hong Kong Shaw Brothers movies on TV.[2][3] In the mid-1990s, he worked as a graphic designer for the Loss Prevention Council and became an art director at Wardour, where he worked on magazines and newsletters.[4] In 2002, he started easternKicks, a website about Asian cinema with news, reviews, and interviews.[3][4] He also wrote for the Japanese film magazine Cut.[5] In 2012, easternKicks had grown with seven regular contributors, and Heskins kept working on it full-time while also doing freelance graphic design.[2] He got involved with the Chinese Visual Festival to promote Asian films[3] and has been interviewed by the BBC and The Spectator as an Asian film expert.[6][7] His reviews have also been quoted in Film International.[8] He also did commentaries for the movies The Champions and Black Mask and appeared in the Blu-ray re-releases of those films.[9][10] In 2023, he co-founded the Focus Hong Kong Film Festival with the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, London.[11]
Personal life
[edit]Heskins lives in London with his wife.[1] Besides movies, he is also a vinyl record collector, which was influenced by his parents. He got into acid jazz in the 1990s and started collecting records, eventually owning over 8,000 with a value of around $39,000 by 2015.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Alison Birrane (June 18, 2015). "The greatest album you've never heard of". BBC.
- 1 2 3 "An interview with easternKicks founder". easternKicks. April 18, 2014.
- 1 2 3 陈澍、翁雨晴 (July 15, 2022). "《光影浪潮香港电影新动力》巡回影展伦敦站落幕". Nouvelles d'Europe.
- 1 2 "About". Andrew Heskins Design.
- ↑ "イ・ビョンホン大解剖 全20Ｐ総力特集". Cut. August 19, 2009.
- ↑ "An Elephant Sitting Still, Chinese film industry, David Szalay, Unesco and Reggae". BBC. December 4, 2018.
- ↑ "The quiet radicalism of Elizabeth II". The Spectator. June 1, 2022.
- ↑ Matthew Sorrento (December 20, 2024). "In with the Old, in with the New: The Sword (1980)". Film International.
- ↑ Joe Corey (July 2, 2024). "Kung Fu soccer classic comes to Blu-ray with The Champions in September". Inside Pulse.
- ↑ "天下第一长镜头，60年后终迎完美修复". The Paper. February 20, 2024.
- ↑ "HK cinema takes the spotlight in Glasgow". Dot Dot News. December 6, 2024.