Cameron Bailey is a writer, broadcaster and film programmer in Toronto. He reviews film for Toronto's NOW Magazine, CBC Radio One and the CTV Network's Canada AM. He is the past president of the Toronto Film Critics Association, and presented international cinema nightly on Showcase Television's The Showcase Revue (1998-2002). He also produced and hosted the interview show Filmmaker on the Independent Film Channel Canada.

Bailey has contributed articles on subjects including cinema, Black culture and new technology to Take One, The Village Voice, Screen, CineAction! and Borderlines, as well as to the MIT Press book Immersed in Technology and the Banff Centre anthology Territories of Difference.

Born in London, England and raised in Barbados and Toronto, he graduated from the University of Western Ontario with an Honours Degree in English literature. He pursued graduate study in Film at York University.

For eight years Bailey selected films for the Toronto International Film Festival (1990-97). He is the founder and former programmer of the Festival's Planet Africa section, and past head of its Perspective Canada series.

He has also curated film series at the Cinematheque Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Film Board of Canada's John Spotton Cinema, and Australia's Sydney International Film Festival. He has served on awards juries at film festivals in Canada, South Korea, Greece, Burkina Faso and Zanzibar.

Bailey serves on the Advisory Board of Toronto's Institute for Contemporary Culture, an initiative of the Royal Ontario Museum. He is also a former board member of the Ontario Film Development Corporation, and Toronto's Images Festival. He is a founder of Canada's Black Film and Video Network.

In 1997 Bailey completed his first screenplay, The Planet of Junior Brown, co-written with director Clement Virgo. The film was named Best Picture at the 1998 Urbanworld Film Festival in New York, and was nominated for a Best Screenplay Gemini Award. Hotel Saudade premieres at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival.

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