WHO DOESN’T WANT to start a magazine in their 20s? It’s a time often electrified by an acute awareness of the world’s mendacious inadequacy. It’s also a time of bravura confidence and a roiling conviction that you can actually do something about the state of things. I say this not with condescension but wistfulness. My friends and I founded a film magazine in our 20s, inspired by French filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, who, too, were critics in their 20s. Entitled Persistence of Vision (get it?), it featured feminist polemics and our own ineffable love for the moving image, punkishly presented in Xeroxed pamphlets and handed out for free.
So, it is with both warmth and familiarity that I stumbled on Fireflies Press, an independent magazine and book publishing house dedicated to catalyzing rigorous, personal, and unabashedly passionate writing about contemporary cinema. Established in July 2014, Fireflies Press is run by Annabel Brady-Brown, who is based in Melbourne, and Giovanni Marchini Camia, based in Berlin. The pair met in 2011 while working together at a Berlin-based culture magazine. Brady-Brown’s background is in creative writing, and Camia’s is in film studies, and, looking around at the international film magazine scene at the time, they didn’t see much that wowed them. As a result, they decided to combine their interests and start their own publication: Fireflies Magazine.
“I think it was something that we, almost in a selfish way, wanted to...
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