Peter Knegt
Country
Canada
Birth - Death
Occupation
Journalist
Description
Senior Editor, IndiWire. Focus of writing is on entertainment, film festivals, and awards season. Contributes as a writer to several publications including Variety, Salon, Xtra!, Exclaim, Winq, HitFix and InToronto. Jurored a number of international film festivals. Programmed the inaugural Reel Out Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in the summer of 2012 co-founded and co-directed Picton Picturefest, a film festival and "cinephile retreat" in rural Ontario that focused on the idea of film as a method of both community building and youth education. Authored 'About Canada: Queer Rights' (Fernwood Publishing, 2011), an historical account of Canada's lesbian and gay rights movement. Advisory Board Member, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto.
Further Reading/Research
- http://www.http://www.uc.utoronto.ca/peter-knegt
- indiewire.com/critic/peter_knegt
