As Director and Programmer of Cinema Politica, Ezra Winton has brought thousands of people to the theater to watch documentary films on the big screen. Ezra is co-founder of the non-profit organization überculture collective, thefounder of the Cinema Politica Network, Seminar Coordinator for the Concordia Documentary Centre, and Cinema Editor for the political art magazine Art Threat. He has made four short documentary films, two of which have aired on CBC, and his initiative on Wal-Mart is the main subject of the feature Doc WAL-TOWN: THE FILM (2006) by Sergeo Kirby.

Ezra is currently pursuing an MA in Media Studies at Concordia University with plans for a PhD at McGill. His research interests include multiculturalism and cultural hegemony, and political economy of political film and video. He is also interested in policy around media ownership, concentration and convergence. His current research looks at the potential for political cinema combined with digital networks to act as interventions in the commercial exhibition market to build a strong public sphere, as well as the lack of diversity of cultural product offered at Canada’s film exhibition sites. An adjunct to this research is an interrogation of the EU’s CinemaNet Europe system and Brazil's digital network, Rain. His main thesis is on the grassroots distribution and exhibition of documentary film in Canada.