Saffron Maeve is a Toronto-based critic and curator. Her writing has appeared in The Globe & Mail, Film Comment, Sight and Sound, MUBI Notebook, Reverse Shot, Cinema Scope, Hyperallergic, Toronto Star, Screen Slate, Le Cinéma Club, and Documentary Magazine. She 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 on related films showing in New York. She is an active member of the Toronto Film Critics Association and GALECA: the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

Saffron is an Associate Programmer for the Future of Film Showcase, a past guest curator for TIFF Wavelengths, and a speaker & moderator for TIFF, International Film Festival of Ottawa, Reel Asian, MDFF, Hot Docs, Dave Barber Cinematheque, and Reelworld. Saffron holds an MA from the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Institute, where her research foregrounded institutional surveillance, pubescence, and the embodied apparatus in the films of Lucile Hadzihalilovic.