COLCOA CRITICS AWARD

COLCOA is proud to partner with LAFCA for the COLCOA Critics Awards. The 2014 LAFCA Jury will give a Critics Award, a Special Prize, and several Special Mentions. 

LAFCA is a professional organization of Los Angeles-based film critics working in the Los Angeles print and electronic media. Each year since its creation in 1975, LAFCA members honor outstanding cinematic achievements during their annual Achievement Awards ceremony in January. LAFCA also sponsors film events and donates funds to various Los Angeles film organizations. 

Two films among the 2014 COLCOA Awards will be rerun for the audience on Monday April 28 at 5:30 pm in the Renoir and Truffaut Theaters.

Films to be announced Sunday, April 27 in the evening on this website as well as Facebook, Twitter and the COLCOA info line: (310) 289 5346  

2014 LAFCA CRITICS JURY 

Andrew Barker

 

Andrew Barker is a film critic and music editor for Variety. A native of Stuttgart, Arkansas and Claremont, California, he studied English and Italian literature at the University of Southern California, and has been writing for Variety since 2006. He has appeared on the BBC, LBC, Fuse and at the Musexpo conference, and co-authored sections of Robert Hofler’s book, The Movie That Changed My Life. He has been a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association since 2009.  

 

Tim Cogshell

 

Tim Cogshell is a veteran L.A.-based Film Critic, Journalist, Writer, Producer and Filmmaker.  For 25 years he has written about film for national and regional magazines and newspapers including Box Office Magazine, Entertainment Today Magazine and L.A. City Beat Magazine among others.  Presently, Tim is a regular critic on Larry Mantle’s FilmWeek, the weekly film review and discussion program that broadcasts from Pasadena-based NPR affiliate KPCC 89.3.  Additionally, Tim is a regular commentator film and media related issues on KNBC Los Angeles television, for the BBC radio and for many other media concerns.  Tim was the Supervising Producer, Writer and Host of the news and information series CineNews for the Showtime and Encore networks.  He is a produced screenwriter, feature film editor and documentarian whose films have won several festival accolades. Tim holds a Masters in Film Studies from Southern Illinois University. 

 

Ann Lee Ellingson

 

Annlee Ellingson is a Los Angeles-based entertainment journalist and film critic. She currently serves as staff writer at L.A. Biz. Previously, she held editorial positions at Moving Pictures and Boxoffice Magazine and has written for Paste Magazine, Los Angeles CityBeat, DGA Quarterly, Los Angeles Weekly, Minneapolis/St. Paul CityPages, and the Minnesota Daily. Annlee holds a B.A. in film studies from the University of Minnesota and a Master of Professional Writing from the University of Southern California.

 

Robert Koehler

 

Robert Koehler has served as director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and AFI Fest, and co-created the ongoing Los Angeles-based film series, “The Films That Got Away,” sponsored by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. His critical writing on cinema has appeared in numerous publications including Variety, Sight & Sound and Film Comment, and has been translated into several languages, with texts that have appeared in books published by Wildflower Press, the Danish Film Institute, the San Sebastian Film Festival and BAFICI. He is a film critic for Cinema Scope, Cineaste, Arts Meme and Film Journey. His “Festival Circus” column appears at Indiewire.

 

Henry Sheehan

 

Henry Sheehan has been a professional movie critic for 35 years, working in Boston Chicago and, for the last 28 years, in Los Angeles. He was the film critic for The Los Angeles Reader, Orange Country Register, and, since 1987, KPCC-FM's Film Week. He has also been a regular or staff critic for the Chicago Reader, The Hollywood Reporter, and the Boston Phoenix, as well as a frequent contributor to the Boston Globe. Other publications which have featured his work include L.A. Weekly, LA Style, the Atlantic Monthly arts supplement among others. His work appears in several anthologies of the National Society of Film Critics, including Foreign Affairs and The "A" List. He has been a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association since 1987 and has served as president twice, 1993-1995 and 2003-2006.

PAST JURIES 

2013

Lael Loewenstein (PRESIDENT)

Justin Chang

Wade Major

Jean Oppenheimer

Chuck Wilson

2012

Christy Lemire (PRESIDENT)

Andrew Barker

Annlee Ellingson

Todd Gilchrist

Ella Taylor

 

2011

Peter Debruge (PRESIDENT)

David Ehrenstein

Mark Olsen

Justin Lowe

Henry Sheehan

 

2010

Jean Oppenheimer (PRESIDENT)

Tim Grierson

Sheri Linden

Wade Major

Brent Simon

 

2009

F.X. Feeney (PRESIDENT)

Peter Debruge

Andy Klein

Christy Lemire

Amy Nicholson

 

2008

Wade Major (PRESIDENT)

Scott Foundas

Mike Goodridge

Jean Oppenheimer

Claudia Puig