Marc Glassman is an arts journalist, film programmer, teacher, and cultural impresario. He is the editor-in-chief of POV (Point of View), Canada's leading periodical on documentary culture, and was for many years the editor of Montage, the magazine of the Directors Guild of Canada. He is the weekly film critic for Classical 96.3 FM in Toronto and a regular music and arts correspondent for Ludwig Van. Over the years he has written on photography, literature, and cinema for those outlets as well as for Playback, Documentary Magazine, DOX, Modern Times Review, and Cinema Scope. He was the first film programmer for the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and has also programmed for the National Film Board, Harbourfront Centre, and the Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival. For nearly a decade he taught photographic and cinematic history to graduate students in the Documentary Media program at Toronto Metropolitan University. His honours include the Toronto Arts Award for literature (2000), the Tom Berner Award for support of independent filmmaking (2003), and the inaugural Doc Luminary Award from the Documentary Organization of Canada's Doc Institute (2016).