Steve Gravestock was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and studied English
Literature and Political Science at the University of Toronto. Since
then, he has worked as a freelance writer, an usher, an assistant
manager in a cinema, a telemarketer, a librarian’s assistant, a
publicist, a gas-station attendant and a janitor. He sits on TIFF’s
Canadian Feature Selection Committee and programs Nordic films as well.
He introduced Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher trilogy and Anders Thomas
Jensen to Toronto audiences and curated TIFF01’s Nordic Visions
section. Closer to home, Steve has overseen TIFF’s publication of
several monographs on Canadian filmmakers, organized its Canadian
Retrospective programmes and managed the annual release of the Canadian
Open Vault programme. He wrote Don Owen: Notes on a Filmmaker and his
Culture. Steve has also programmed numerous Canadian and international
series for Cinematheque Ontario. He is occasionally mistaken for Johnny
Depp.