Andrew Heskins
British film critic (born 1972)
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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.
Andrew Heskins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1972 (age 53–54) |
| Occupation | Film critic |
Biography
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]