Beth Accomando is a film and theatre critic for KPBS, who formerly worked as an arts reporter for NPR, XETV and The Star-News.
13 Facts About Beth Accomando
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Beth Accomando's work has been distributed through several publications, including RogerEbert.
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Beth Accomando graduated from University of California, San Diego in 1982 with a degree in communications and visual arts.
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Beth Accomando is a theatre and film critic for KPBS who reviewed films such as Sucker Punch, The Fall, The Brave One, and Knocked Up.
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Beth Accomando described just how much George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead influenced Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead.
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In 1985, Beth Accomando was one of 12 women featured in A San Diego Exhibition: Forty-two Emerging Artists at La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Beth Accomando worked for XETV-TDT in 1992 and in 1998, introduced the film Rashomon at Landmark's Ken Cinema.
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In 2000, Beth Accomando curated an event in San Diego that held premieres for Butterfly and Sword, Eastern Condors, Holy Weapon, The Magic Crystal, Pedicab Driver and Shanghai Blues.
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Beth Accomando wrote for National Public Radio and helped put together an Asian festival at University of California, San Diego.
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Beth Accomando has interviewed Chow Yun Fat, Jackie Chan, Stanley Tong and John Woo.
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In 2016, Beth Accomando judged a play called Killing Buddha at San Diego International Fringe Festival.
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In 2017, Beth Accomando was a judge at Horrible Imaginings Film Festival.
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Beth Accomando was part of a Storytelling in Film panel with Michael Lewis Foster, Neal Hallford and Jonathan Hammond at San Diego Comic Con in 2021.