Claudia Puig

Claudia Puig is president of the Los Angeles Film Critics
Association and a nationally recognized entertainment
journalist. She is currently a critic for NPR’s Film Week
and a contributor to NPR’s Morning Edition and All
Things Considered. She was USA Today’s film critic for
18 years and host of USA Today’s video series The
Screening Room. She was also a contributing film critic
on KNBC-TV. Prior to that she was a staff writer for 11
years at the Los Angeles Times. Claudia also has written
for The Wrap, AARP Magazine was a speechwriter and
diversity consultant for the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences. She has been program director at the
Napa Valley Film Festival, and is currently program
director for the Mendocino Film Festival and FilmFest
919 in North Carolina. Claudia is also much in demand
as a moderator for entertainment industry panels and
Q&As, and has a consulting business specializing in film analysis, curating, and diversity issues.
She has covered the Sundance, Toronto and Cannes film festivals, and has been a juror at
dozens of film festivals around the world from Ashland to Zurich.

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