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, MUBI Notebook, Reverse Shot, Hyperallergic, Screen Slate, Cinema Scope, Toronto Star, Le Cinéma Club, and Documentary Magazine. She is an active member of the Toronto Film Critics Association and GALECA: the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. 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 the Brooklyn Academy of Music, TIFF Wavelengths, Future of Film Showcase, The Cinematheque (BC), and Spectacle Theater, and has moderated for TIFF, International Film Festival of Ottawa, Reel Asian, MDFF, Hot Docs, Dave Barber Cinematheque, and Reelworld. Saffron holds an MA from the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Institute and is a forthcoming PhD student in Cinema and Media Studies at York University.