Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Writer
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Introduction	Steve Veale is Director of the annual "T.O. indie Film Festival" and the "T.O. Short Film Festival" held every year at the Carlton Cinema in Toronto. He is a professional freelance Writer who has written and photographed his travels around the world for many years. He has been published in newspapers, magazines, websites and produced various travel guidebooks. He is a former member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) Canadian Chapter & Freelance Council. Veale has also worked as an instructor in the Journalism program at Toronto's "George Brown College" - teaching Writing for Magazines and Travel Writing. He is an inveterate and veteran moviegoer, TV Baby Boomer and Theatre aficionado.
Interests	Travel, Films, Theatre, Cuisine & Dining, Literature.
Favorite movies	No Country for Old Men, The Godfather I & II, Hereafter, Pan's Labrinyth, the Bourne series. Television: The Wire, Sons of Anarchy, Dexter, Justified, Person of Interest, A Gifted Man. Stage: Come from Away.
Favorite books	Travel-related books (selected) The Alexandrian Quartet (Lawrence Durrell), Bitter Lemons (Henry Miller), The Accidental Tourist (Anne Tyler), What Am I doing Here? Anything by John Gardner. Mysteries: Ross Thomas, John Sandford, Raymond Chandler. (Bruce Chatwin),Neither Here nor There (Bill Bryson), The Magus (John Fowles).