[1] Formerly a freelance film critic for various Toronto magazines and newspapers, he first joined TIFF's programming staff in 1994.
[3] In this role, he also played a key role in organizing and conducting the festival's annual Canada's Top Ten poll to identify the best Canadian films of the year,[4] and coordinated the festival's series of monographs on Canadian film history.
[7] As his last major project with TIFF, he programmed Seen the North, a special "carte blanche" screening series held at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in January 2023, which highlighted some of his own personal favourite films that he had programmed during his career with the festival.
[8] He was succeeded as the festival's Canadian film programmer by Norman Wilner.
[9] He was also named as the winner of the Toronto Film Critics Association's Company 3 TFCA Luminary Award at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2022.