Nataleah Hunter-Young is a film programmer, media artist, and doctoral student in Communication and Culture at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. She has supported festival programming for the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Durban International Film Festival. Within each of these roles, she is fiercely committed to broadening the global audiences’ access to pan-African fiction and non-fiction film.  Building on more than 10 years’ experience as a local and international youth worker, Nataleah has always merged her passion for community development with her love for film and media arts. This remains true in the case of her doctoral studies, where she is completing a research-creation PhD that explores the sociocultural impact of social media police brutality videos and the ways in which visual artists are navigating those themes in their work. More broadly, Nataleah’s research interests include visual culture, Black visualities, civic engagement, and documentary media. She holds a Master’s of Social Work from Ryerson University, and Bachelor’s degrees in Social Work and Sociology from McMaster University.