Cameron Bailey
Co-Director of the Toronto International Film Festival
Cameron Bailey is the Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival® and the overall TIFF organization.
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Cameron Bailey is the Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival® and the overall TIFF organization. He has been responsible for the direction of the Festival’s selection since 2008, and now oversees TIFF’s year-round programming as well. For five consecutive years, Toronto Life has named him one of Toronto’s 50 Most Influential People.
Born in London, Bailey grew up in England and Barbados before migrating to Canada. He began programming for the organization in 1990, headed the organization’s Perspective Canada programme and founded its Planet Africa section, and worked both as a film programmer and film critic for 20 years before taking on his current role.
For many years, Bailey was a writer and broadcaster on film. He reviewed for Toronto’s NOW Magazine, CBC Radio One and CTV’s Canada AM. He presented international cinema nightly on Showcase TV’s national program The Showcase Revue, and produced and hosted the interview program Filmmaker on Independent Film Channel Canada. He has been published in The Globe and Mail, The Village Voice, CineAction! and Screen, among others.
As a programmer and curator, he has organized film series for local and international festivals and galleries including the National Gallery of Canada, Australia’s Sydney International Film Festival, Cinematheque Ontario and the National Film Board of Canada. He has also served on awards juries at festivals including Busan, Tokyo, Reykjavik, Zanzibar and Beijing, and has been a guest speaker at several Canadian universities, the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University and the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Bailey has taught film curation at the University of Toronto, and sits on the Advisory Council for Western University’s School for Arts and Humanities and for Haiti’s Cine Institute film school. He is past co-chair of the Arts & Culture Working Group of Toronto’s CivicAction. In 2016, Bailey joined the board of CivicAction. In 2007, Bailey was a part of the delegation accompanying Canada’s Governor-General Michaëlle Jean on her state visit to Brazil. In 2017 he was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by France’s Ministry of Culture.
Today, Bailey continues to be an integral part of the success of both the Toronto International Film Festival, as Artistic Director, and to TIFF the organization, as a year-round programmer. As he travels the world searching for the films that emote, transform and create discourse, he remains a respected leader in his community, lover of all cultures and above all else a doting family man.
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GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
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WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
On behalf of myself and my organization Entertainment Unlimited the Campus Programming Board of Ferris State University, we thank you PDA and Dan for a successful event!! Dan was magnificent! Students really enjoyed the presentation. I know I did. Can't wait to bring in more programs with PDA Group.
FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY
It was a great pleasure to work with PDA Group! The communication was always prompt, friendly and helpful. We loved the speakers and events we booked through Mr. Peter Walker (PDA Group).
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Thank you, Peter, for all your help, you'll be happy to know that the event went incredibly well! Aneesa Ferreira was by far one of the best speakers we've ever had!
FURMAN UNIVERSITY
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An Evening With Cameron Bailey
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Autumn Convocation - Cameron Bailey - Oct 25, 2018
The Walrus Talks - Cameron Bailey
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