Sara Merican is a film journalist and critic from Singapore. She has written features and reviews for Forbes.com, The Hollywood Reporter, Sight and Sound, Content Asia and MUBI Notebook, among others. A member of FIPRESCI, she has worked as a programmer for the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) and is also an alumnus of SGIFF’s Young Critics program and the Far East Film Festival’s Campus program. She started as a young cinephile writing about Southeast Asian films, before joining The Hollywood Reporter as an editorial intern. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Cinema Studies and English, before pursuing a master’s degree in film and screen studies at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar. She is particularly interested in the intersection between cinema and ethics and is passionate about increasing access for underrepresented groups in journalism.