Cameron Bailey
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Cameron Bailey is a Canadian film critic and festival programmer, who has been the artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival since 2012.[1]
Born in London, England to parents from Barbados,[2] he spent his early childhood in St. James, Barbados before moving to Canada with his family at age eight.[2] Educated at the University of Western Ontario,[2] he worked as a film reviewer for Now, Canada AM, CBC Radio One, Take One and other publications before joining TIFF as a programmer.[2]
He also cowrote the screenplay for the 1997 film The Planet of Junior Brown with Clement Virgo,[2] 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.[3] Ru won the competition.[4]
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- ↑ "Cameron Bailey named artistic director of Toronto International Film Festival". National Post, March 14, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Movie mogul Cameron Bailey". Canadian Immigrant, October 3, 2011.
- ↑ "CBC announces Canada Reads finalists". Toronto Star, January 20, 2015.
- ↑ "'Ru' by Montreal's Kim Thuy wins CBC's 'Canada Reads' competition". Brandon Sun, March 19, 2015.
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