Jason Gorber

Editor-in-Chief / Chief Critic
Jason Gorber is a film journalist, programmer and member of the Toronto Film Critics Association, the Critics Choice Association and OFCS .

He is the Director of Film Programming at the Blue Mountain Film + Media Festival, CBC Radio Metro Morning's Film Correspondent, and regularly contributes to POV Magazine, Collider, Paste Magazine, A.V. Club, RogerEbert.com.

Jason's writing has appeared in Esquire, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Screen Anarchy (aka TwitchFilm), SlashFilm, HighDefDigest, Birth.Movies.Death, IndieWire and more. He has appeared on CTV NewsChannel, CP24, and many other broadcasters.

Jason has been a jury member at the Reykjavik International Film Festival, Calgary Underground Film Festival, RiverRun Film Festival, TIFF Canada's Top 10, Reel Asian, Festival Regard and Fantasia's New Flesh Award.

He is a longstanding Tomatometer-approved critic and additional links to his writing can be found at Metacritic.


Articles by Jason Gorber:


  • September 17, 2015

    TIFF 2015 Interview: Alan Zweig on HURT

    We spoke to Hurt director Alan Zweig about finding Steve Fonyo, the current state of documentary, what it means to make non-fiction cinema and how that is set apart from “mere” journalism.