Peter Kuplowsky

Background

About Peter Kuplowsky

Peter Kuplowsky is a film curator, producer, and writer based in Toronto. Since 2005, he has established a career championing genre cinema and outsider art at various international film festivals. He is currently the lead programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival's (TIFF) Midnight Madness section, as well as the Midnight Dankness showcase which is held annually on the eve of TIFF. Over the past few years, Kuplowsky has helped develop and produce a number of critically acclaimed short and feature films with emerging filmmakers that he supported on the festival circuit as a programmer. His producer credits include The ABCs of Death: Part 2 (2014), The Interior (2015), The Void (2016), Climate of the Hunter (2019), PG: Psycho Goreman (2020), Agnes (2021), Country Gold (2022), The Artifice Girl (2022), In A Violent Nature (2024). He also co-curated and co-hosted THE LASER BLAST FILM SOCIETY, a film series that screened monthly at Toronto's historic ROYAL CINEMA from 2014 to 2020, which often culminated in the semi-regular WHAT THE FILM FESTIVAL, a weekend showcase of outsider art cinema.