Jesse Cumming is a curator, writer, and researcher. He’s Associate Curator for the Wavelengths section at Toronto International Film Festival, having previously served as the section’s Programming Associate. He has served as a programmer with Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and as a consultant with the Berlinale Forum and Open City Documentary Festival. Independently, he has curated, co-curated, and presented programmes with the Museum of Modern Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Tallinn Photomonth Biennial, Anthology Film Archives, the ICA London, and more.
In 2016 he developed Vertical Features, a Toronto screening series dedicated to non-fiction film and video. His writing has appeared in Cinema Scope, The Brooklyn Rail, MUBI Notebook, Filmmaker Magazine, Hyperallergic, Canadian Art, Another Gaze, C Magazine, Berlin Art Link, and more. He was a founding collective member of MICE Magazine, a publication dedicated to Moving Image Culture, Etc., and formerly served on the steering committee of the Toronto Film & Media Seminar. He holds an MA in Communication & Culture from York University, and was formerly a Media Lecturer with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Cairo Campus.