TORONTO — Piers Handling, Director and CEO of TIFF, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, reveal the team of 22 programmers who will make the selections for the 40th Toronto International Film Festival®, which runs Thursday, September 10 through Sunday, September 20, 2015.

Piers Handling
Europe, City to City: London, Special Presentations, Gala Presentations
Handling is the Director and Chief Executive Officer of TIFF. He has held this position since 1994, and is responsible for leading both the operational and artistic growth of the organization. Under Handling’s direction, TIFF has grown to become an internationally renowned cultural institution. He has curated numerous film retrospectives, presented programmes of Canadian cinema, sat on festival juries all around the world, and has published extensively on Canadian cinema. In 2013, Handling co-curated a multi-platform celebration of iconic Canadian director David Cronenberg, the exhibition component of which is currently touring to cultural institutions worldwide. In 2014, Handling was invested into the Order of Ontario, the province’s highest official honour.

Cameron Bailey
Western Europe, South Asia, the Caribbean, USA, City to City: London, Special Presentations, Gala Presentations
Bailey is the Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival. Since 2008 he has been responsible for the overall vision and execution of the Festival’s selection. Bailey began programming for the organization in 1990, and worked both as a film programmer and film critic for 20 years before taking on his current role. As a programmer and curator, he has organized film series for local and international festivals and galleries including the National Gallery of Canada and Australia’s Sydney International Film Festival.

Michèle Maheux
Ireland, the Netherlands, Special Presentations, Gala Presentations
Celebrating her 27th Festival this September, Maheux is the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer for TIFF, where she is responsible for all business operations of the $44-million cultural charity — including TIFF Bell Lightbox, the organization’s year-round home. She has been a member of provincial, municipal, industry and arts organization committees, and has served as a juror at international film festivals and as a mentor within the industry. In 2011 she was recognized by WXN among the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada and in 2012 she was awarded, with Piers Handling, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. She is Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of Ryerson University and is a Director of the Movie Theatre Association of Canada.

Kerri Craddock
Belgium, Special Presentations, Gala Presentations
Craddock is the Director of Programming for the Festival. She joined the organization in 2007 and regularly represents the Festival at the Sundance, Berlin and Cannes film festivals. Craddock served on the jury for the 2013 Philadelphia Film Festival Feature Documentary Competition, the Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival features panel in 2012, and on the National Ballet of Canada’s Turnout Cabinet from 2011 to 2014. She will speak on a panel at the 2015 Cannes festival discussing Swedish films.

Jesse Wente
Wente is the Director of Film Programmes at TIFF, overseeing new releases, series and TIFF Cinematheque programming and scheduling, as well as TIFF’s national distribution program Film Circuit. Some of his contributions to programming since the opening of TIFF Bell Lightbox in 2010 include retrospectives on Roman Polanski, Paul Verhoeven, Ousmane Sembène, Oscar Micheaux, Studio Ghibli and Robert Altman. Prior to his role as Director, Wente served as one of the Canadian features programmers for the Toronto International Film Festival, and also programmed for the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Festival.

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