Dr. Nataleah Hunter-Young

Dr. Nataleah Hunter-Young (she/they) is a writer, film curator, and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University. Between 2021 and 2024, Dr. Hunter-Young was International Programmer responsible for feature selections from Africa and Arab West Asia at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Having supported festival programming at TIFF since 2017, she also programmed with Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Durban International Film Festival in South Africa, Reelworld Film Festival, and Toronto Outdoor Picture Show. Her research interests span the fields of Black studies, cultural studies, and media studies, focusing particularly on Black cultural production, political economy, media industry studies, research-creation, integrated arts and creative practice. Dr. Hunter-Young was consulting producer on the Criterion Collection’s 10th anniversary disk release of Dee Rees’ landmark film Pariah (2011) in 2021, and her writing has appeared in the Journal of Visual Culture, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, Criterion Channel, Public: Art | Culture | Ideas, The Conversation, Xtra, and Canadian Art, among other publications. Born and raised in Toronto, Dr. Hunter-Young holds a joint Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from York University and Toronto Metropolitan University.

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