Saffron Maeve is a Toronto-based critic, curator, and cultural worker. Her writing has appeared in The Globe & Mail, Film Comment, MUBI Notebook, Cinema Scope, Toronto Star, Screen Slate, and she is an active member of the Toronto Film Critics Association and GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.
Saffron is the curator and host of CONTOURS at Paradise Theatre, a monthly screening series of short and feature films which thematize visual art. She also writes an accompanying column for Screen Slate, which surveys similar films showing in New York.
Saffron has been a guest speaker/moderator for Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival of Ottawa, Dave Barber Cinematheque, and Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. She has also written copy for the National Film Board of Canada and Le Cinéma Club.
Saffron holds an MA and BA from the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Institute. Her research foregrounds institutional surveillance, pubescence, and the embodied apparatus in the films of Lucile Hadzihalilovic.