TORONTO — Cameron Bailey has been appointed CEO of the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant.
In asserting the information, TIFF’s board of administrators cited their confidence in Bailey’s means to steer the non-profit group via an ever-changing trade.
Bailey ascends to the highest job after serving as co-head with Joana Vicente, who left her put up to develop into CEO of the Sundance Institute on Oct. 31.
Bailey beforehand served as TIFF’s inventive director below former CEO Piers Dealing with, and was co-director earlier than that.
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He started his profession at TIFF in 1990 as a seasonal movie programmer, and beforehand labored within the media as a movie critic.
The information comes as TIFF additionally publicizes that Jeffrey Remedios, chairman and CEO of Common Music Canada, has been named TIFF’s new chair of the board. He replaces Jennifer Tory who has held the position since 2016.
Remedios touted Bailey’s management in a launch issued Tuesday, saying: “There isn’t any one higher suited to drive TIFF ahead.”
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Bailey known as it “each a pleasure and an unlimited duty” to steer the cultural group.
“I’m indebted to TIFF’s founders and to every of TIFF’s earlier leaders for constructing a corporation devoted to creating constructive change on this planet for filmgoers, filmmakers, and all of the professionals who make films matter,” he stated in a launch.
Along with operating the September movie competition, TIFF’s endeavours embody numerous occasions at TIFF Bell Lightbox, a downtown movie hub with 5 cinemas, studying and leisure amenities.
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