Critic, screenwriter and programmer Cameron Bailey has been named International Programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced this week. He will focus on films from Africa, South Africa, South Asia, and independents from the U.S. and Europe. Bailey founded the festival's Planet Africa section in 1995 and selected movies for the section until 1997.
The festival also announced that the Planet Africa section of the festival will be discontinued, and films that would have screened in the sidebar will be added to lineups in other sections of the festival. Bailey reviews film for Toronto's NOW Magazine, CBC Radio One and the CTV network's "Canada AM".
