| Valery Kichin | |
| Birth Name: | Valery Semyonovich Kichin |
| Birth Date: | December 31, 1938 |
| Occupation: | film critic journalist |
| Nationality: | Russian |
Valery Semyonovich Kichin (ru|Вале́рий Семёнович Ки́чин; born December 31, 1938, Sverdlovsk) is a Russian journalist, film and theater critic, radio host. He is currently a columnist for Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation (2010). Laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation Prize (2019)[1] [2] and Prize of the Russian Guild of Film Critics (2003).[3]
Graduated from the Music School at the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire in Sverdlovsk (piano class) and the journalism faculty of the Ural State University in 1961.
He was a member of the jury of national and international film festivals (Varna, Sochi, Yekaterinburg, Odesa, Khanty-Mansiysk), a member of the FIPRESCI jury at the Montreal World Film Festival, a member of the jury of the Golden Mask (twice), chairman of the jury of Russian critics at the Moscow International Film Festival.[4]
In 2018, it was censored: a review made by Kichin following the premiere of the film Donbass at the Cannes Film Festival completely disappeared from Rossiyskaya Gazeta. On the last day of the festival, a paragraph dedicated to Sergei Loznitsa's painting was again removed in the same newspaper, and the editorial staff did not inform the author.[5] [6]