Johanna Schneller

Johanna Schneller is an American-born Canadian film journalist and television personality, who hosted the film talk show The Filmmakers on CBC Television.^[1]

A freelance celebrity interviewer for such publications as Vanity Fair, GQ, Chatelaine and Toronto Life, she is also the film columnist for The Globe and Mail,^[2] and hosted TVOntario's weekly Saturday Night at the Movies for two seasons.^[3] She has also been a regular television columnist for the Toronto Star and the StarMetro chain.^[4] Schneller has lived in Toronto since 1994 with her husband, Canadian journalist Ian Brown,^[5] and their two children, Hayley and Walker.^[6]

Schneller was appointed president of the Toronto Film Critics Association in 2021.^[7] Schneller resigned from this position in March 2026, after her decision^[8] to remove two sentences^[9] expressing support for Palestine from a pre-recorded acceptance speech by actress and filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2025 award ceremony. Tailfeathers, who was awarded outstanding supporting performance in a Canadian film for her role in Sweet Angel Baby, returned her award after her speech was cut short, and nearly half^[10] of the Toronto Film Critics Association's members resigned.