Ren Scateni is a writer, curator, and programmer whose work focuses on the cinema of East Asian countries. Their writing has been featured in Hyperallergic, Art Review, MUBI Notebook, Sight & Sound, among other publications. They are a graduate of the 2019 BFI Critics Mentorship Programme, the 2020 Barbican Emerging Film Curators Lab, and the 2021 IFFR Young Film Critics Programme. Ren has recently curated a short film programme on filmmaker Yoshigai Nao for the Barbican and sat on the submissions panel for the 2021 edition of the Glasgow Short Film Festival. Ren is currently curating a programme on contemporary Japanese documentary practices to be delivered later this year.