Saffron Maeve is a Toronto-based critic, editor, and film curator.

She is a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail, and her writing has appeared in Film Comment, Sight and Sound, Reverse Shot, MUBI Notebook, Metrograph Journal, Hyperallergic, The Believer, Cinema Scope, Le Cinéma Club, and Documentary Magazine. She is a member of the Toronto Film Critics Association, GALECA: the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and the 2025 Locarno Critics Academy.

Saffron is the curator of CONTOURS at Paradise Theatre, a monthly screening series of films which thematize visual art, and she  manages an accompanying column for Screen Slate on related films showing in New York. Quarterly, she also hosts Crit Salon, a live reading of film criticism to engage audiences in the work of Canadian critics. 

Saffron has curated films for TIFF, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Cinematheque (BC), and Spectacle Theater, and has moderated for MDFF, Hot Docs, IFFO, Reel Asian, Dave Barber Cinematheque, and Reelworld. Saffron holds an MA from the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Institute and is presently pursuing a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at York University.