Dorotha Lech

Curator and writer, USA

Dorota Lech is a Polish-born film curator and writer. Since 2013, she has worked for the Toronto International Film Festival where she is the Lead Programmer of the Discovery section and the curator of Central and Eastern European cinema. Dorota is also a programmer at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and produces the Hot Docs Forum, a co-financing market at Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival. Dorota holds a double MA in Political Science and Gender Studies from McGill University, speaks five languages, and has contributed to Vanity Fair, MUBI Notebook, and Film Quarterly. She has guest lectured in Harvard's Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies and has curated screenings for the TIFF Cinémathèque, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Filmoteca Española, the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, and Kosovo's DokuFest.