Carolyn Mauricette

Carolyn Mauricette is a Toronto-based Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, film writer, former Programmer/Development Coordinator for the Blood in the Snow Film Festival and current Director of Canadian Programming for the Fantasia International Film Festival. Looking to find more representation in genre, she co-created and ran the Blood in the Snow Horror Development Lab from 2021-2024, where jury-selected underrepresented BIPOC, LGBTQ2SIA+, women, and creators with Disabilities are paired with industry professionals to make their TV/Web series and feature projects a reality.
You can find her writing on Hollywood Suite and online and print editions of Rue Morgue Magazine and Grim Magazine, and she is a published contributing author writing about Japanese horror and racism in American cinema. Carolyn has also produced lectures for Toronto’s Black Museum in 2019, the Fantasia Film Festival in 2020 and 2021, and The Miskatonic Institute for Horror Studies in 2022. You can also find her in the 2020 documentary Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business, directed by Justin McConnell, Boutique: To Preserve and Collect, by Ryan Bruce Levey, and the documentary TV series A Year In Film and Cinema A to Z on Hollywood Suite.