Jesse Cumming (he/him) is a curator, writer, and researcher. He has served as a Programmer with Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and as a Programming Associate with the Wavelengths section of the Toronto International Film Festival, in addition to Consulting roles with the Berlinale Forum and Open City Documentary Festival. In 2016 he developed Vertical Features, a Toronto screening series dedicated to non-fiction film and video. He has curated, co-curated, and presented programs with The Museum of Modern Art, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Tallinn Photomonth Biennal, Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Anthology Film Archives, the Volksbühne Berlin, La Cinémathèque québécoise, VIVO Media Arts, and more. His writing has appeared in Cinema Scope, The Brooklyn Rail, MUBI Notebook, Filmmaker Magazine, Hyperallergic, Canadian Art, Another Gaze, C Magazine, Berlin Art Link, and more. He was a founding collective member of MICE Magazine, a publication dedicated to Moving Image Culture, Etc., and formerly served on the steering committee of the Toronto Film & Media Seminar. He is currently a Media Lecturer with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Cairo Campus.