What is Cinema Minima?
Cinema Minima Services for Movie Makers Worldwide has provided news and information to filmmakers since 1999. Its readership is international. Its distribution is worldwide. Its stories are syndicated.
Who reads Cinema Minima?
The Cinema Minima reader is a filmmaker. She is as likely to be a woman, as a man. Affluent and sophisticated, she has an advanced education. She may be young or mature.
She — or he — pursues a career in movies, far from Hollywood: in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, or India. Independent and dedicated to creating a new cinema for her audience, she is receptive to products or services which support her filmmaking mission.
Every day, thousands of movie makers worldwide read Cinema Minima’s syndicated news feed, get its bulletins on their mobile phones, visit its Web site, or listen to its podcast.
About two-thirds of Cinema Minima’s readers live and work outside the United States. For most, English is a second (or third) language.
What does Cinema Minima sponsor?
Cinema Minima sponsors Far From Hollywood/Meetups for Movie Makers, and Sustainable Cinema.
Cinema Minima Correspondents
Cinema Minima Correspondents and stringers report from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. They cover story, production, distribution, exhibition, rights, and tools.
Cinema Minima Correspondents have been accredited as Press by the AFI Fest (Hollywood), the American Film Market (Los Angeles), the Berlinale, Lola Kenya Screen, the Independent Film & Television Alliance (Los Angeles), the New York Film Festival, the Singapore International Film Festival, Sundance, and The Times/bfi London International Film Festival, among others.
Cinema Minima Staff
- Publisher — Chris Winsome
- Executive Editor (Editor-in-Chief) — Austin Burbridge
- Production — Kirsten Klok
- Office Manager — Virginia Cunningham
- Information Technology Manager — Audrey Farber
- Bureau Chief USA/East Coast — Kietryn Zychal
- Bureau Chief Africa/Kenya — Ogova Ondego
- Bureau Chief Canada — Martin Leduc
Austin Burbridge
Austin Burbridge is Editor-in-Chief of Cinema Minima. After successful careers in manufacturing and in technology, he founded Cinema Minima, Sustainable Cinema, and Far From Hollywood. A native of Texas, he learned cinéma vérité technique at Rice Media Center. At Brown he concentrated in Semiotics and in Art; he studied Art History at the University of Chicago. He lives in Los Angeles.
Ogova OndegoNairobi-based full time worshipper at the shrine of arts and culture; writer specialising in issues related to children, youth, media, culture and development, with a bias towards african and children's cinemaSuddhasatya Ghosh
Suddhasatya Ghosh is based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Chris WinsomeChristopher Winsome is the Publisher of Cinema Minima for Movie MakersKietryn Zychal
Kietryn Zychal is a Correspondent for the New York Bureau of Cinema Minima. She has worked as a journalist in the American state of Pennsylvania. Prior to working as a journalist, Zychal was an actress. She toured several American states performing a one-woman show “Merely the Ravings of a Maniac,” that she wrote and produced. Her screenplay, “What Comes Next,” is a dark comedy about the difficulty of being married to a professional golfer. Zychal is writing a TV pilot called “Eco-Hookers.” She was educated at Lehigh University and studied abroad in England and Switzerland.


