Cameron Bailey

Born in London, England to parents from Barbados,[1] he spent his early childhood in St. James, Barbados, before moving to Canada with his family at the age of eight.[1] Educated at the University of Western Ontario,[1] 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.[1]

He also cowrote the screenplay for the 1997 film The Planet of Junior Brown with Clement Virgo,[1] and wrote and directed the short film Hotel Saudade.

In 2012, Bailey was named artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival.[2]

He participated in the 2015 edition of Canada Reads, where he advocated for Kim Thúy's novel Ru.[3] Ru ultimately won the competition.[4]

In 2018, Bailey was promoted to the newly created position of artistic director and co-head of the Toronto International Film Festival.[5]

• 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.

• Cameron Bailey at IMDb