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Peter Morris and Andrew McIntosh
Kass Banning
Kathleen Banning teaches cinema studies at the University of Toronto. She is a co-editor of Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema. (University of Toronto Press, 1999). Banning has written extensively on Canadian and diasporic cinemas and is currently working on a book on configurations of race and nation in minoritarian Canadian film.  
• Atom Egoyan
• Clement Virgo
• Zacharias Kunuk
Pamela Cuthbert
Pamela Cuthbert is a writer and editor based in Toronto. Her work has been published in many periodicals including the Economist, Globe and Mail, National Post and the International Herald Tribune's Italy Daily.
• Cordell Barker
• Wendy Tilby
• Richard Condie
Liz Czach
Liz Czach is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. From 1995 to 2005, she was a programmer of Canadian film at the Toronto International Film Festival. She has published articles on film festivals and home movies in The Moving Image and Take One.
• It’s All Gone Pete Tong
• Saint Ralph
• ScaredSacred
• Is the Crown at War with Us?
• Sight Under Construction
• When Ponds Freeze Over
• Neuvaine, La
• Horloge biologique
• Simple Curve, A
• Childstar
• La Moiti้ gauche du frigo
• N๔
• John Greyson
Stacey Donen
• The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia
• I Shout Love
• Peau blanche, La
• Familia
• C.R.A.Z.Y.
Kathryn Elder
Kathryn Elder is the film and video librarian at York University Libraries and editor of The Films of Joyce Wieland (Cinematheque Ontario, 1999) and The Films of Jack Chambers (Cinematheque Ontario, 2002).
• Jack Chambers
• Joyce Wieland
Sean Farnel
Sean Farnel is Director of Programming for Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Hot Docs is North America’s largest documentary film festival, co-financing forum and market. Sean was appointed to this newly created position in November 2005, following six years as a programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival Group.
• Naked Lunch
Seth Feldman
Seth Feldman teaches in the department of film and video at York University, where he holds the honorific title of university professor. He is the writer/presenter of 23 documentaries for the CBC program IDEAS and was the curator of the Allan King retrospective at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festivalฎ.
• Allan King
Alicia Fletcher
Chris Gehman
Chris Gehman is a Toronto-based independent filmmaker and a film and video programmer. He is currently the artistic director of the Images Festival, and previously worked as a programmer and editor at Cinematheque Ontario. His writing has appeared in Millennium Film Journal, Cinema Scope, Broken Pencil, Take One and other periodicals.
• passing through/torn formations
• Like a Dream That Vanishes
• Moose Jaw: There's a Future in Our Past
• Richard Fung
Marc Glassman
Marc Glassman is a Toronto arts journalist, film programmer, and editor of several books on Canadian film. He is also the proprietor of Pages Bookstore and recently became editor of Montage magazine, published by the Director's Guild of Canada.
• Alanis Obomsawin
Steve Gravestock
Steve Gravestock is Associate Director, Canadian Programming, at the Toronto International Film Festival Group. He is a contributing editor for Cinema Scope and was a frequent contributor to Take One and Festival Magazine. He has written extensively about Canadian and international cinema and is the author of Don Owen: Notes on a Filmmaker and His Culture.
• Crash
• Cowboy and Indian
• I, Claudia
• Gallery: A View of Time
• Snow in Venice
• Toronto Jazz
• Runner
• Turnabout
• Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, The
• Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
• Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Rom้o Dallaire
• Unfinished Business
• You Don't Back Down
• Partners
• High Steel
• Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail
• Richler of St. Urbain Street
• Man Feel Pain
• Deepa Mehta
• Ron Mann
• Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Piers Handling
Piers Handling has been Festival Director at the Toronto International Film Festivalฎ since 1994, and was responsible for co-founding the Festival's Perspective Canada program. Handling has organized numerous programmes including major retrospectives of Canadian, Latin American, Italian and Hungarian cinema. He has written extensively on Canadian cinema and has been published in numerous film journals.
• Earth
• Michael Rubbo
• Gilles Carle
• Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Peter Harcourt
Peter Harcourt is a writer, teacher and programmer who lives in Ottawa. He is the author of Six European Directors (Penguin, 1974), Movies & Mythologies (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1977) and A Canadian Journey: Conversations with Time (Oberon, 1994).
• willing voyeur, the
• Richard Hancox
• Philip Hoffman
• Micheline Lanct๔t
George Kaltsounakis
George Kaltsounakis edits Cinematheque Ontario's programme guide and recently curated retrospectives on the Vietnam War, Ken Loach and Charles Burnett at the Cinematheque.

• Norman Jewison
• Peter Mettler
• Jeremy Podeswa
Allan King
Allan King is an internationally acclaimed Canadian filmmaker who helped pioneer the cin้ma v้rit้ documentary style. King was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. An advocate of filmmakers' rights, he was a member of the Council of Canadian Filmmakers in the seventies and a former president of the Director's Guild of Canada. His films have won many awards and retrospectives of his work have been shown in London, Rome, Montr้al, and Toronto.
Kate Lawrie
Andr้ Loiselle
Andr้ Loiselle Ph.D. is Director of the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University, where he also teaches Film Studies. He has published books on the films of Denys Arcand (1995), Anne Claire Poirier's Mourir เ Tue-T๊te (2000) and feature film adaptations of Canadian and Quebec drama (2003). His most recent book, Cinema as History: Michel Brault and Modern Quebec, was published by the Toronto International Film Festival Group in 2007.
 
• Anne Claire Poirier
• Gilles Groulx
• L้a Pool
• Francis Mankiewicz
Kyo Maclear
Kyo Maclear is an independent writer and editor based in Toronto. Her work has been published in several art and culture magazines, including Toronto Life, Brick, Mix, Fuse and This Magazine.
• Sea in the Blood
Jason McBride
Jason McBride is a Toronto-based filmmaker and freelance writer. His writing on film has appeared in the National Post, Take One, Cinema Scope and Toronto Life.
• Mike Hoolboom
• Guy Maddin
Andrew McIntosh
An independent writer and programmer, Andrew McIntosh holds a B.A. in Canadian history and an M.A. in film and media studies. He is a frequent contributor to Festival Magazine and POV Magazine and has worked for the National Film Board, the Toronto International Film Festival Group and numerous Toronto-based film festivals.
• Blue Skies
• Black Christmas
• eXistenZ
• Aspiration
• Bollywood/Hollywood
• Elles ้taient cinq
• Buster Keaton Rides Again
• Inertia
• ยme noire – Black Soul
• Blackfly
• Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl
• Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur
• The Stone of Folly
• Porky's
• Wilby Wonderful
• The Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick
• Reconstruction
• This Hour Has Seven Days
• Flux
• Moccasin Flats
• Strange Invaders
• Men with Brooms
• I Shout Love
• Where the Truth Lies
• Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, The
• Neuvaine, La
• Simple Curve, A
• Cariboo Country
• History of Violence, A
• Fire
• Earth
• Water
• Animal Movie, The
• World Stopped Watching, The
• FILM(dzama)
• Familia
• C.R.A.Z.Y.
• Chapeau, Le
• Big Girl
• Cube
• Spider
• D้charge
• Better Than Chocolate
• Metadata
• Frank's Cock
• Document
• Le Paysagiste/Mindscape
• Street Musique
• Letters from Home
• What Remains of Us
• Quest for Fire
• V for Victory
• Walking
• Metamorphosis
• Ryan
• Nails
• Seeing Canada
• Ted Kotcheff
• Michael Spencer
• Maury Chaykin
• Denis Villeneuve
• Marie-Jos้e Croze
• Bruce Greenwood
• Molly Parker
• John Spotton
• Jackie Burroughs
• George Bloomfield
• Lionel Chetwynd
• Pascale Bussi่res
• Gratien G้linas
• Daniel Petrie
• Michael Dowse
• Christopher Hinton
• Sarah Polley
• Al Razutis
• Vic Sarin
• Wiebke Von Carolsfeld
• Christopher Chapman
• Pierre Lamy
• Laura Sky
• Paul Jay
• Sheila McCarthy
• Fran็ois Pr้vost
• Nettie Wild
• Ryan Larkin
• Maurice Bulbulian
• Frank C. Badgley
• Ted Allan
• Rudy Buttignol
• Ghyslaine C๔t้
• Andrea Dorfman
• Chris Abraham
• F.R. Crawley
• Bernard Devlin
• Don Arioli
• Hugo Latulippe
• Peter Lynch
• Elias Koteas
• Mark Irwin
• Chris Landreth
• Gordon Pinsent
• Colm Feore
• Graham Greene
• Donald Sutherland
• Camelia Frieberg
• Andr้ Lamy
• Gabriel Arcand
• Julian Biggs
• Manon Briand
• Roman Kroitor
• Bruce LaBruce
• Lewis Furey
• Bob Clark
• Daniel MacIvor
• Michael McGowan
• Callum Keith Rennie
• Peter Raymont
• Paul Gross
• Rebecca Jenkins
• Jim Allodi
• Michael Mabbot
• Aubrey Nealon
• Louise Archambault
• Ricardo Trogi
• Hubert Aquin
• Atom Egoyan
• Jean-Marc Vall้e
• Marcel Sabourin
• Daniel Roby
• Bernard ษmond
• Arsin้e Khanjian
• Henry Czerny
• Caroline Leaf
• Roger Lemelin
• Boyce Richardson
• Margot Kidder
• Christopher Plummer
• Robert Morin
• Patricia Gruben
• John Kemeny
• Peter Pearson
• David Verrall
• Zale R. Dalen
• Lothaire Bluteau
• Garth H. Drabinsky
• Guy L. Cot้
• Terence Macartney-Filgate
• Patrick Watson
• Jacques Bobet
• Velcrow Ripper
• Vincenzo Natali
• Sturla Gunnarsson
• Carole Laure
• John Weldon
• L้o-Ernest Ouimet
• Morley Markson
• Grant McLean
• Sydney Newman
• Guy Roberge
• Sylvia Spring
• James Beveridge
• Al Sens
• Andrew and George Holland
• Helen Shaver
• Louis Applebaum
• John Fawcett
• Harvey Hart
• Keith Behrman
• George Kaczender
• George Dunning
• Alexandra Raff้
• Tantoo Cardinal
• Genevi่ve Bujold
• Judith Crawley
Tom McSorley
Tom McSorley is executive director of the Canadian Film Institute (a division of Cinematheque Canada). He also teaches Canadian cinema at Carleton University and is a contributing editor at Take One magazine. McSorley is also a freelance film and theatre critic for CBC Radio One.
• William D. MacGillivray
Peter Morris
Peter Morris is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Film & Video at York University. Prior to that he taught film studies at Queen's University. He has written numerous articles and books on film, including Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema 1885-1939 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992), The Film Companion (Irwin, 1984), and David Cronenberg: A Delicate Balance (ECW Press, 1993).
• Case of Charlie Gordon, The
• God's Crucible
• Dans nos for๊ts
• Petits Arpents, Les
• Passe-Partout
• Cameron of the Royal Mounted
• Alexis Ladouceur, M้tis
• R้f้rendum
• Temiscaming Quebec
• An Unselfish Love
• The Song that Reached His Heart
• Whispering City/La Fortress
• Au pays de Neufve-France
• Homme aux oiseaux, L'
• This Hour Has Seven Days
• Musician in the Family, A
• En tant que femmes
• Golden Gloves
• Challenge for Change
• Canada Carries On
• Eye Witness
• Boy Who Stopped Niagara, The
• Br๛l้s, Les
• Labour in Canada
• Temps pr้sent
• By Their Own Strength
• Convicted
• Drug Addict
• En pays neufs
• R.C.M.P. File 1365 – The Connors Case
• World in Action, The
• Glengarry School Days
• The Great Shadow
• Hiawatha, The Messiah of the Ojibway
• ภ la crois้e des chemins
• Panoramique
• Perspective
• Back-Breaking Leaf, The
• Montr้al Blues
• Open Grave, The
• Trouble f๊te
• Faces of Canada
• Coal Face, Canada
• Drying Up the Streets
• On the Spot
• Gina
• Eurynome
• The Grievance
• His Destiny
• Jeunesse Ann้e O.
• On a raison de se r้volter
• Deux femmes en or
• Hiver bleu, L'
• Il ้tait une fois dans l'est
• The Man from Glengarry
• Opera School
• Document
• Our Northern Neighbour
• The People Between
• A Place to Stand
• Richesse des autres
• The Rising Tide
• Servants du bon dieu, Les
• Le Soleil a pas d'chance
• This Generation: A Prairie Romance
• Ti-cul Tougas
• Le Grand Film ordinaire ou Jeanne d'Arc n'est pas morte, se porte bien, et vit au Qu้bec
• It's a Crime
• Lest We Forget
• Monkeys in the Attic A Film of Exploding Dreams
• The Most
• Sailors of the Guard
• Secrets of Chinatown
• The Tar Sands
• Tu br๛les … tu br๛les ...
• Women Are Warriors
• World in a Marsh
• Rose's House
• Bye Baby Bunting
• The Seven Hundred Million
• War for Men's Minds, The
• Wives’ Tale/Une histoire de femmes, A
• Zikkaron
• Seeing Canada
• Mental Mechanisms
• Jean Dansereau
• Stanley R. Jackson
• David Bairstow
• Laura Sky
• Maurice Bulbulian
• Frank C. Badgley
• Bernard Devlin
• Don Arioli
• Marcel Carri่re
• Ren้ Bail
• Ron Alexander
• Donald Shebib
• Guy Borremans
• Julian Roffman
• Ernest Shipman
• Kenneth J. Bishop
• Claude Fournier
• Boyce Richardson
• Pierre Patry
• Don Haldane
• L้o-Ernest Ouimet
• Morley Markson
• Grant McLean
• Fernand Dansereau
• Al Sens
• Andrew and George Holland
• Bernard Longpr้
• Beryl Fox
• Louis Applebaum
• Bernard Gosselin
Mark Peranson
Mark Peranson is editor and publisher of Cinema Scope magazine and a programmer for the Vancouver International Film Festival. He is a frequent contributor to The Village Voice and the Globe and Mail.
• Tales from the Gimli Hospital
• Bruce Sweeney
Christine Ramsay
Christine Ramsay teaches Canadian cinema at the University of Regina. She has published articles on directors David Cronenberg, John Greyson, Jean-Claude Lauzon, Don Shebib and David Wellington. She is currently at work on a book on masculinity, affect and death in Canadian cinema, and is beginning research on documentary filmmaker Evelyn Spice Cherry.
• David Cronenberg
• Evelyn Cherry
• Mina Shum
Theresa Rowat
Theresa Rowat is an archivist and heritage policy-analyst based in Toronto. She specializes in audio-visual heritage issues and collections management. Currently, she is consulting archivist for the Film Reference Library, the Spiess Archive at William F. White Ltd. and is active in dance heritage advocacy.
• Don McKellar
• Bruce McDonald
Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo

Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo is a Canadian short film programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival Group, and has been an international Programming Consultant for the Toronto International Film Festival since 2005. She holds an M.A. in Film Studies from York University, with a specialization in Canadian cinema and feminist filmmaking, and an honours B.A. in Film and English Literature from University of Western Ontario. Smoluch Del Sorbo has written on cinema for a number of publications and has been a guest lecturer in cinema at the University of Genova in Italy.

• Working Mothers Series
Tammy Stone

Tammy Stone is Manager of Programming at Film Circuit, a division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group. She is currently completing her doctorate on Canadian direct cinema at York University.

• Jean-Claude Lauzon
• Thom Fitzgerald
Bart Testa
Bart Testa teaches cinema studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Spirit in the Landscape (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1989) and Back and Forth: Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1992), and edited Pier Paolo Pasolini: Contemporary Perspectives (University of Toronto Press, 1994). His writings on Canadian film include a recent essay on Arcand's Decline of the American Empire in Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films (edited by Gene Walz, Rodopi, 2002).
• Book of All the Dead, The
• Richard Kerr
• Bruce Elder
• Michael Snow
Pierre V้ronneau
Pierre V้ronneau is an established historian of Canadian film, and is curator of Quebec and Canadian cinema, and the film-related collection at the Cin้math่que qu้b้coise in Montr้al. He is also a professor of cinema at Concordia University and the Universit้ de Montr้al. He recently published David Cronenberg: la beaut้ du chaos (Cerf-Corlet, 2003). V้ronneau's articles have appeared in many books and reviews, including Moving Image, Film History, 1895, Cin้mas, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Revue d'histoire de l'Am้rique fran็aise, and others.
• Pierre Perrault
• Michel Brault
Jerry White
Jerry White is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, where he is also President of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies. He has published widely on Canadian cinema including, as co-editor, North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980 (University of Alberta Press, 2002), and as editor, The Cinema of Canada (Wallflower Press, 2006).
• Eastern Avenue
• Lancalot Freely
• Tectonic Plates
• Top of His Head, The
• Balifilm
Andrea Whyte
Wyndham Wise
Wyndham Wise is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Take One and editor of Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film, (University of Toronto Press, 2001).
• Robert Lantos
• Ivan Reitman

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