Steve Gravestock is a Canadian film festival programmer, best known as a longtime programmer for the

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. Formerly a freelance film critic for various Toronto magazines and newspapers, he first joined TIFF's programming staff in 1994. He became the head programmer for Canadian films in 2004, also retaining responsibility for programming Nordic and Scandinavian films. In this role, he also played a key role in organizing and conducting the festival's annual

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poll to identify the best Canadian films of the year, and coordinated the festival's series of monographs on Canadian film history. He was the writer of ''Don Owen: Notes on the Filmmaker and His Culture'', the TIFF monograph on Don Owen, and of a 2019 book on the history of

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ic film. He announced in 2022 that he would retire from the festival at the end of the year, with the

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being the last edition to feature his programming selections. As his last major project with TIFF, he programmed Seen the North, a special "carte blanche" screening series held at the

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in January 2023, which highlighted some of his own personal favourite films that he had programmed during his career with the festival. He was also named as the winner of the

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's Company 3 TFCA Luminary Award at the

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