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Tom McSorley (born Thomas Holland McSorley) is a Canadian film critic and scholar, based in Ottawa, Ontario.

He is the Executive Director of the Canadian Film Institute. He is also a sessional lecturer in Film Studies, at Carleton University; a freelance film and former theatre critic for CBC Radio One; the editor of Rivers of Time: The Films of Philip Hoffman (2008); and co-editor of Self Portraits: The Cinemas of Canada Since Telefilm (2006) and Life Without Death: The Cinema of Frank Cole (2009). He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Canadian and international cinema, and the author of a new critical study on Atom Egoyan’s 1991 feature film, The Adjuster (2009). In 1997, McSorley created the annual Latin American Film Festival as a key component of the Canadian Film Institute's ongoing international film programming in Canada's capital. He is also the singer and drummer in the Ottawa-based rock band Presence and his alter ego, Sam Menard, was the drummer for ska rockabilly band The Pelts.

References

1. "Coach House Books". Archived from the original on 2010-11-24. Retrieved 2009-12-09.
2. "Coach House Books". Archived from the original on 2009-10-11. Retrieved 2009-12-09.
3. "University of Toronto Press".

• "Rivers of Time: The Films of Philip Hoffman" - Canadian Film Institute
• "Life Without Death: The Cinema of Frank Cole" - Coach House Books
• "Atom Egoyan's The Adjuster" - University of Toronto Press

External links

• CBC Ottawa - Ottawa Morning - Film with Tom McSorley
• Canadian Film Institute
• Presence the Band

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