Karina Longworth is a film and new media critic/blogger based in New York, NY. Her writing has appeared in FILMMAKER Magazine, The Huffington Post, Netscape, NewTeeVee, The Raw Story and TV Squad. She currently writes and edits SpoutBlog, a daily film culture blog dedicated to discovering under-the-radar hotness and deflating the over-exposed. She also occasionally contributes to Spout’s Webby-nominated FilmCouch podcast. She is a frequent festival juror and conference panelist, and has appeared on G4's Attack of the Show!, AMC's Movies That Shook The World, CNN.com Live, and Studio 360 on NPR.

In 2005, Karina co-founded Cinematical, which quickly became one of the largest film blogs on the web. As editor and lead contributor at Cinematical, Karina covered film festivals, wrote 10-12 news items a day as well as 3-4 feature stories a week, and wrote, produced, and hosted a short-lived daily video podcast. Karina contributed to Cinematical through the early months of 2007. As of this writing, the site is owned by AOL and operated by Moviefone.

On a good day, Karina looks like this. This is probably the best candid photo ever taken of her; most candid photos end up looking like this.

Karina grew up in Los Angeles, where she attended the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts. She spent five semesters at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 2003 earned a BFA in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2005, she earned a Masters degree in Cinema Studies from New York University, where she studied with great film critics and scholars such as Ed Guerrero, Tom Gunning, and J. Hoberman.

Karina is (almost) always available for media appearances, speaking engagements, and freelance work. You can email her at karina AT vidiocy DOT com.