The Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing vibrant Palestinian cinema to GTA audiences.  Our mandate is to promote the richness of Palestinian Arab culture through cinema, music, and other forms of visual arts.  TPFF was conceived in 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba. For general inquiries about TPFF please contact us: Toronto Palestine Film Festival 102A-1075 Bay St., Ste 148 Toronto, ON M5S 2B2 info@tpff.ca

TPFF Coordinators
  • Dima Amine, Sponsor Relations, is a geophysicist working in the sales and marketing department of an airborne company.
  • Shirin Haghgou, Programming, recently completed her Hons BA (English) at the University of Toronto.
  • Andrew Hugill, Accounting, is an Applied Physics/Engineering consultant.
  • Wafa Ktaech, Event Management, is completing her Hons BA (Peace and Conflict Studies) at the University of Toronto.
  • Dania Majid, Media Relations/Programming, is the President of the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association.
  • Rehaana Manek, Event Management, is a PhD candidate (Anthropology) at York University.
  • Nausheen Quayyum, Public Relations, is a PhD candidate (Political Science) at York University.
  • Tamara Sabarini, Programming, is completing her MA (Immigration and Settlement Studies) at Ryerson University.
  • Dana Suleiman, Volunteer Management, is a recent graduate of George Brown College and works in sales.
  • Nadine Khoury, Art Show Coordination, is completing her BFA (Criticism and Curatorial Practice, Photography) at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
TPFF Committee Members
  • Nahed Mansour, Graphic Design, recently completed her MFA at Concordia University and is a Toronto-based visual artist.
  • Christina Piovesan, Film Industry Relations, is a Toronto-based film producer (Amreeka).
  • Pouya Sayyadi, Graphic Design, is a graphic and engineering designer, filmmaker and animator and has graduated from University of Toronto.
  • John Sharkey, Grants, is a former senior programmer with the Toronto International Film Festival, Perspective Canada Program.
TPFF Advisory Board
  • Jehad Y Aliweiwi is the Executive Director of Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office.
  • Richard Fung is a Toronto-based video artist, cultural critic and a professor (Video) at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
  • John Greyson is a filmmaker (Fig Trees), video artist (Covered), writer, activist and professor (Film) at York University.
  • Annemarie Jacir is a Palestinian filmmaker (Salt of this Sea), editor, poet, author and educator.
  • Jerry Jareer Khouri is a former Senior Policy Advisor to the Ontario Minister of Finance.
  • Ruba Nadda is an acclaimed Arab-Canadian filmmaker (Sabah, Cairo Times) and writer.
  • Nitin Sawhney is a senior research scientist at Cytel, Inc., in Massachusetts and a founder of the Boston Palestine Film Festival.
  • Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian spoken-word artist (Hadeel), PhD candidate and a founder of the Toronto Palestine Film Festival.