3to1 Studios, LLC will host a get-together for Cameron Bailey, International Programmer for the Toronto Film Festival, on Friday April 28, 2006 6:00-8:00 pm.3to1 Studios, LLC will host a get-together for Cameron Bailey, International Programmer for the Toronto Film Festival, on Friday April 28, 2006 from 6:00-8:00 pm in their offices at 410 S. Michigan Ave, Suite 421.

Bailey is coming to Chicago to meet Independent filmmakers and to talk about the Toronto International Film Festival (http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest ), encourage participation of Chicago independents and to otherwise demystify the process.

CAMERON BAILEY is a writer, broadcaster and film programmer in Toronto. He reviews film for Toronto's Now magazine and CBC Radio One, and for many years reviewed for the CTV network's breakfast television show Canada AM. He presented international cinema nightly on Showcase Television's The Showcase Revue, and also produced and hosted the interview show Filmmaker on the Independent Film Channel Canada.

Born in London, England and raised in Barbados and Toronto, he graduated from the University of Western Ontario with an Honours Degree in English literature. He pursued graduate study in Film at York University.Bailey has contributed articles on subjects including cinema, Black culture and new technology to The Globe and Mail, Take One, The Village Voice, Screen, Vertigo, CineAction! and Borderlines, as well as to the MIT Press book Immersed in Technology and the Banff Centre anthology Territories of Difference.

He has also curated film series at the Cinematheque Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Film Board of Canada, and film festivals in Sydney, Australia, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Zagreb, Croatia. In 1997 Bailey completed his first screenplay, The Planet of Junior Brown, co-written with director Clement Virgo. The film was named Best Picture at the 1998 Urbanworld Film Festival in New York, and was nominated for a Best Screenplay Gemini Award. He recently completed a video essay shot in Brazil, Hotel Saudade. It premiered at the 2004 Toronto Film Festival, and won the Best Canadian Film prize at Montreal's Vues D'Afrique festival. It made its U.S. premiere in 2005 at New York's Museum of Modern Art.