Mihai Chirilov

There he started writing film criticism for the weekly Dilemma, and soon became vice director of another magazine called pro Cinema, also related to the Romanian TV channel.

In 2006, Mihai Chirilov started to work as artistic director of the Romanian Film Festival in New York City founded by Corina Suteu.

During Fall 2011, Chirilov is the guest curator of the New Romanian Cinema series at Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville (New York).

The series includes the international acclaimed 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu (Golden Palm at Cannes in 2007), Police Adjective by Corneliu Porumboiu (2009) and The autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu by Andrei Ujica (2010), along with a full retrospective of the work of filmmaker Cristi Puiu (The death of Mr. Lazarescu), and a special screening of Alexandru Tatos's Anastasia gently passes, in the presence of actress Anda Onesa.

Chirilov has been serving as member of juries in many festivals, including Berlin (Berlinale), Gothenburg, Chicago, Palm Springs, Cleveland, Hong Kong, Moscow, Karlovy Vary, Milan- along with many others.