Carolyn Mauricette is a Toronto-based Rotten Tomatoes approved critic, Programmer/Development Coordinator for the Blood in the Snow Film Festival and Director of Canadian Programming for the Fantasia International Film Festival. She’s contributed to The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films and The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films. She’s produced talks on The Omega Man for The Black Museum, Afrofuturism and Black women monsters for Fantasia, and was a commentator in the 2020 documentary Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business, and The Hollywood Suite original documentary series, A Year in Film, Season 3.