Matthew Hays is a Canadian film critic, writer, film festival programmer and academic. He won a Lambda Literary Award for his 2007 book The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers . [1]
Hays teaches film studies, journalism and communication studies at Concordia University in Montreal, and cinema at Marianopolis College in Westmount. [2] He has reviewed films for the Montreal Mirror . His writing has also been published in The Globe and Mail , The Guardian , Xtra! , The Walrus , Vice and The Advocate , and he has been a programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival. He was nominated for a 2008 National Magazine Award. [3]
Hays earned an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University in Montreal in 2008. [5]