Name Cameron Bailey | Role Film director | |
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Occupation Film critic, festival programmer Movies The Planet of Junior Brown Nominations Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-series Similar People Clement Virgo, Kim Thuy, Sarah Polley, Lynn Whitfield, Virginia Hamilton | ||
Interview with cameron bailey director of the toronto international film festival
Cameron Bailey is a Canadian film critic and festival programmer, who has been the artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival since 2012.
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- Interview with cameron bailey director of the toronto international film festival
- Tiff s cameron bailey on canadian films film independent event
- Selected publications
- References
Born in London, England to parents from Barbados, he spent his early childhood in St. James, Barbados before moving to Canada with his family at age eight. Educated at the University of Western Ontario, he worked as a film reviewer for Now, Canada AM, CBC Radio One, Take One and other publications before joining TIFF as a programmer.
He also cowrote the screenplay for the 1997 film The Planet of Junior Brown with Clement Virgo, and wrote and directed the short film Hotel Saudade.
He participated in the 2015 edition of Canada Reads, where he advocated for Kim Thúy's novel Ru. Ru won the competition.