Sevara Pan is a film critic, journalist, and curator working in the documentary field with a special focuson films and media projects that concern human rights, social justice, and activism.

She writes for such industry publications as Modern Times Review, Documentary Magazine of the International Documentary Association (IDA), and Cineuropa. She previously wrote for DOX, a leading international magazine for the European documentary film industry.

She is a program advisor at IDFA. Since 2022, she has been on the Activist Film Committee of Movies that Matter, an annual human rights film festival in The Hague, the Netherlands, and has curated independent film screenings in Berlin, Germany, and Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She collaborates with True Story, a UK-based independent documentary streaming platform, in programming a special strand of documentaries by Central Asian filmmakers.

Between June and September 2023, she served as a jury member for the European Commission project Support to EU Film Festivals, implemented by Cineuropa, Institut Français, and Goethe-Institut.

She is also well experienced in the press and editorial work. She worked as Online Editor at IDFA and Documentary Campus. In 2023, she joined the Press Department of DOK Leipzig as a freelance publicist. More on her professional activities here.

Get in touch: sevarapan@gmail.com