Kelly Boutsalis is the International Programmer, Canadian Features at the Toronto International Film Festival. Working at TIFF since 2022, she's also contributed to Canada's Top Ten and co-hosted the International Cinema Cafe. She is Mohawk from the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve. As a freelance writer, she has written about film and television for The New York Times, NOW Magazine, ELLE Canada, Flare, Realscreen, and POV Magazine. The bulk of her journalism focuses on telling positive Indigenous stories. She has a BA in comparative literature from Western University, and studied journalism at Humber College.

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