Alex Heeney

Alex Heeney is a Toronto-based Tomato-approved film critic and podcaster. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Seventh Row, a non-profit online film criticism publication and publishing house. She also hosts the Seventh Row Podcast. She has edited, written for, and published fourteen books on film, including The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook, which spotlights a renaissance in Canadian filmmaking. She has been closely following Indigenous cinema in Canada for the last decade and has interviewed many important Indigenous filmmakers for Seventh Row, including Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Jeff Barnaby, and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers. She has also published the first full-length books ever written on filmmakers such as Céline Sciamma, Joanna Hogg, Andrew Haigh, and Joachim Trier (book forthcoming) — all of which are available for purchase on the Seventh Row website.