Anna Bogutskaya

Anna Bogutskaya is a London-based freelance film programmer, broadcaster, writer and creative producer, connected in both the worlds of US and UK film. She is also the co-founder of the horror film collective and podcast The Final Girls and Festival Director of Underwire Festival. Previously, Anna was the Film and Events Programmer at the British Film Institute. In 2019, she was selected as one of Screen International’s Future Leaders in Curation and Programming and was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and in 2020 was selected as a mentor at SXSW.

Books by Anna Bogutskaya

Unlikeable Female Characters

Anna Bogutskaya

An incisive exploration into the evolution of unlikeable female characters: what makes them unlikeable, how audiences have reacted to them, and whether pop culture—and society—is finally ready to embrace complicated women.