Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) is film organization through which a working film critic can become a recognized film critic. The Broadcast Film Critics Association is “the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing approximately 250 television, radio and online critics…Founded in 1995, the BFCA presents its Critics’ Choice Awards each year to honor the finest achievements in filmmaking.
As was mentioned in our Rotten Tomatoes, Your Movie Reviews, Recognition, and Website Traffic post, you have to be part of a recognized film critics society to be accepted into Rotten Tomatoes as a film critic as well as other film review aggregators. The following is the admittance criteria for BFCA:
* Applicants for membership must be “broadcast” film critics: working film critics whose reviews are broadcast on a regular basis to a wide audience, either on television, on radio, or on the internet with subjective assessments of the quality of motion pictures being released theatrically.
* Critics who write for an internet outlet must be either well-known print critics as well, or among the few internet critics whose reviews are read by a large enough audience to qualify.
* Internet critics must be the primary critic on their site and they must be easily accessible and identifiable as that site’s critic.
Please contact BFCA Membership Director, Sara Voorhees, for additional information and application: [email protected]
The Broadcast Film Critics Association website can be found here. Make sure you have a plethora of current theatrically released film reviews clearly visible and accessible on your website or where you publish your reviews before you apply. Also, wait until after the Critics Choice Awards have occurred in mid-January before applying.
