M.A. El Colegio de México (African Studies)
Ph.D. Concordia University (Film and Moving Image Studies)

Darien Sánchez Nicolás, PhD. is an instructor in the Humanities, Philosophies and Religions department at John Abbott College. He got a doctorate in Film and Moving Image Studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema of Concordia University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Queen’s University’s Vulnerable Media Lab and has also worked as film pre-screener and programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival, Latinarte Festival and the South Asian International Film Festival of Montréal, amongst others.