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The Cinema Snobs Team
Emilie has been a content writer for Rough Maps since 2024. She holds a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University and has been published in various magazines including Toronto Life and Exclaim. Her favourite topics to write about include food, traveling, health & wellness, and music. Her dream vacation destination is New Zealand and her worst vacation experience was having altitude sickness in Colorado in a sweltering hot hotel with a heating system gone haywire. Emilie's favourite movie is Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox and a movie she loves that everyone else hates is the horribly kitschy Evil Dead series.
Christy Chan is a Vancouver-based writer, editor, and designer. Though her travels are few and far between, she has no shortage of stories to share—trekking the Canadian wilderness, sampling poke along the Honolulu coastline, getting lost in night markets in Taiwan—and her wanderlust will eventually pin her somewhere foreign. Travels aside, if she isn't busy trying to bake the perfect cookie or relearning how to watercolour, she's scouring the nearest library, searching for the next spark of inspiration. Though horror is her go-to genre, her favourite movie to date is, hands down, Monsters, Inc.
With a fine arts degree from OCAD University under her belt, Megan dips her brush in many creative fields. She’s currently exploring the world of writing, working in niches from fiction to copywriting. Meg is either traveling or dreaming of traveling when she’s not writing. Her home base is in Canada until the lakes freeze over. Megan’s favorite movie that everybody else hates is Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star. She remembers watching it and rehearsing the dance scene with her sister and she still quotes the “brick wall waterfall” diss chant to all of her enemies.
Chase joined Rough Maps as our inaugural employee in 2018, bringing with him a BA in Administrative Marketing from Fanshawe College and a fervent aspiration to become an advertising expert. His love for travel and his writing prowess seamlessly blend, enabling him to share captivating experiences about the wonders of our planet. Chase's favorite comedy movie is Dodgeball. There are just so many silly jokes and over the top moments. The acting is great!
Farva has been immersed in the world of writing since earning her B.A. in English. In the past, she has written as a freelancer and has even worked on some novels. She enjoys exploring a variety of topics, including relationships, comic books, and global culture. Superheroes—ranging from iconic figures like Batman to niche characters like Morpheus—are some of her favorite subjects. Farva is prepared to go down fighting to defend Mad Max: Fury Road as the best movie ever made.
Having dealt first-hand in the realm of digital content and media since 2019, David has committed himself to making full use of his BA in History and Political Science (that being an extremely loose definition of the term "full use"). Despite this complete 180, David's passion for writing and observing the world around him has lent itself to a steadfast commitment to producing content about the topics he cares about most: travel and pop culture. Although difficult to narrow down, David would have to say that his favourite movie is Goodfellas. He also firmly believes that, despite its low box office numbers, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is easily one of the funniest movies of the 21st century.
Since the dawn of time, Maria has subjected people to her writing. From silly stories about baseball in her youth to silly stories about cowboys in adulthood, people have been unsafe for years. She brought that love of writing to UTM (U of T’s homely sister in Mississauga) where she spent five years on the campus newspaper, eventually becoming editor-in-chief. Her work has also been published in UTM’s annual journal and one of her short stories placed second in Scribbler’s Dialogue Contest. She believes she’s funnier than she is and would have made her entire blurb Smash Mouth’s lyrics to “All Star,” if only her boss had let her. Maria’s favourite movies fluctuate every year, but her current favourite is Her (Her is the name of the movie, Maria didn’t star in a film with Joaquin Phoenix). She also watches The Polar Express every Christmas even though it scares everyone.
Cathy has been a content writer at Rough Maps since 2023. She has a BA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia and has always dreamed of becoming a writer. Her love for reading fueled her passion for writing, and she enjoys writing about topics like pop culture, film, travel, and personal experiences. Cathy's favorite movie of all time is Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. While that's a popular classic, she also appreciates 2012, a disaster movie no one seems to love.
Robbie has been with Rough Maps since 2019, first as a content writer and latterly as Director of Creative and Media. His essays and reports have been published in Maclean’s, Salon, The West End Phoenix and elsewhere. Robbie is a recipient of the Eugene Levy Writing Award, a three-time winner of the York University President’s Prize, and was the Humber Yuk Yuks Standup Champ in 2016. Robbie's favorite movie is Jackie Brown. He thought The Road to El Dorado was great even though it flopped.
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