Cameron Bailey is a Canadian film critic and festival programmer, who is the CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).[1][2]

Cameron Bailey
Bailey in 2017
Born	London, England
Education	University of Western Ontario
Occupation	Film critic, festival programmer

Biography

Born in London, England to parents from Barbados,[3] he spent his early childhood in St. James, Barbados, before moving to Canada with his family at the age of eight.[3] Educated at the University of Western Ontario,[3] he worked as a film reviewer for Now, Canada AM, CBC Radio One, Take One and other publications before joining the Toronto International Film Festival as a programmer.[3]

He also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1997 film The Planet of Junior Brown with Clement Virgo,[3] and wrote and directed the short film Hotel Saudade.

In 2012, Bailey was named artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival.[4]

He participated in the 2015 edition of Canada Reads, where he advocated for Kim Thúy's novel Ru.[5] Ru ultimately won the competition.[6]

In 2018, Bailey was promoted to the newly created position of artistic director and co-head of the Toronto International Film Festival.[7] In 2021, following the resignation of co-head Joana Vicente, Bailey was named the festival's executive director.[8]

On November 30, 2021 Bailey was appointed Chief Executive Officer of TIFF after a 25 year career with the festival.[9]

Selected publications

• Cameron Bailey (1999). Kay Armatage; Kass Banning; Brenda Longfellow; Janine Marchessault (eds.). A Cinema of Duty: The Films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva. Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto. pp. 94–108.
• Cameron Bailey (1990). "A Cinema of Duty: The Films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva". CineAction. winter (23): 4–12. In this essay he honoured Jennifer Hodge de Silva.

References

External links

• Cameron Bailey at IMDb

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