Saffron Maeve is a Toronto-based critic and curator.

Her writing has appeared in Film Comment, Sight and Sound, MUBI Notebook, The Globe & Mail, 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 films which thematize visual art. She manages an accompanying column for Screen Slate on related films showing in New York. Quarterly, Saffron also hosts Crit Salon, a live reading of film criticism to engage audiences in the work of Canadian critics. 

Saffron is an active member of the Toronto Film Critics Association and GALECA: the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, as well as an Associate Programmer for the Future of Film Showcase. She has guest curated films for TIFF Wavelengths and The Cinematheque (BC), and has moderated for TIFF, International Film Festival of Ottawa, Reel Asian, MDFF, Hot Docs, Galerie, 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.