Saffron Maeve is a Toronto-based writer, curator, and researcher.

She is a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail, and her criticism has appeared in Film Comment, Sight and Sound, Reverse Shot, MUBI Notebook, Metrograph Journal, The Believer, Cinema Scope, Le Cinéma Club, and Documentary Magazine. She is a member of GALECA: the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and the 2025 Locarno Critics Academy.

Saffron is the curator of CONTOURS, a screening series of films thematizing visual art at Paradise Theatre (+ an accompanying column for Screen Slate) and Apparatus Theory at Revue Cinema, spotlighting films about image-making. Quarterly, she hosts Crit Salon, a live reading of film criticism to engage audiences in the work of Canadian critics. 

Saffron has curated programs for TIFF, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Cinematheque (BC), Hot Docs, and Spectacle Theater. She holds an MA from the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Institute and is presently a PhD student in Cinema & Media Studies at York University, where her research examines experimental art documentaries. In 2026, Filmmaker Magazine named Saffron one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film.