Jaie Laplante is an internationally recognized leader and influencer in film culture. As a critic and journalist in Canada in the late 1980s and 1990s, he published more than 400 pieces on contemporary commercial and international art cinema for a variety of publications. Based in Miami since 1998, Laplante has curated for a variety of film festivals, and since 2010 has been director of Miami International Film Festival. He appreciates that film is never an exact science, and that science is never an exact film.