Dana Linssen is a film critic (de Filmkrant, NRC Handelsblad), writer, thinker, and lecturer (ArtEZ Academy of Theatre, HKU Audio Visual Media/Writing for Performance) from the Netherlands. She is the founder of the Slow Criticism Project and with Jan Pieter Ekker, co-curator of the Critics’ Choice at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Currently, she is working as a “quarter master” for FilmForward, a new talent and skills development institute in the Netherlands.