- Former festival director and programmer, he co-founded with Claude Chamberlain in 1971 the Montreal Festival Du Nouveau Cinema and founded the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
- In 1969 he launched the Independent Filmmakers Cooperative in Montreal and worked with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ministry of External Affairs to present a tour of Canadian films at film museums and institutes in 35 European cities.
- Served as program director at the Reykjavik Film Festival in Iceland.
- Served as the artistic director of the New Horizons section of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece.
- Served as juror at numerous film festivals, including San Sebastian, Istanbul, Tehrna, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Moscow, Seoul, Karlovy Vary, Amsterdam, Trieste, Bilbao, St. Petersburg and Wroclaw.
- An international programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival for 40 years until 2018, he curated film titles from Eastern and Central Europe, Western and Central Asia and Greece.
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