FESTIVAL JURY

Each year, Toronto Youth Shorts bring to the festival established voices in the film, media, and entertainment industry to determine the slate of annual festival awards.

JULIAN CHANCO comes with 10 years of experience at Bell Media’s programming department, curating the national schedule, stealing the eyeballs of hundreds of thousands across the country. Other responsibilities include screening both TV and movies to become the resident subject matter expert, and also to edit them down for standards and practices. In his spare time, Julian likes playing kickball.

SAMAN MALIK is a seasoned storyteller and an award-winning journalist, producer and director born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. She has worked for CBC, The New York Times, VICE and others. Malik has served on film festival and award juries including the International Emmy Awards and has moderated for industry events such as Chelsea Film Festival in New York. She holds a master's degree in documentary filmmaking from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

COURTNEY SMALL is a Rotten Tomatoes approved film critic who has contributed to POV Magazine, That Shelf, Leonard Maltin, and Cinema Axis. He is the co-host of Frameline and is a member of the Toronto Film Critics Association, the Online Film Critics Society, and the African American Film Critics Association.