Colin Geddes was born in Toronto but grew
up in the countryside outside Kingston, Ontario, where his parents
accidentally fostered in him an interest in cult cinema, despite the
fact that their television only received two channels. In 1988 he moved
to Toronto to study graphic design and, during his first week in the
big city, attended the inaugural year of Midnight Madness at TIFF.
Geddes soon fell in with Toronto’s film zine community, writing and
publishing Asian Eye, one of North America’s first sources of
information on Hong Kong cinema. After graduation, he managed Suspect
Video and Toronto’s short-lived Asian rep theatre, Golden Classics
Cinema. He began programming Midnight Madness in 1998, which he does to
this day. Geddes has one of North America’s largest collections of Hong
Kong movie posters, and recently wrapped Kung Fu Fridays, a series he
curated for ten years, which showcased Asian martial arts and cult
cinema.