Film marketing expert Grace Cianciotta succumbed to breast cancer on Monday at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. She was 43.

Since August, Cianciotta had been working for the newly minted Maximum Films International and Maximum Film Distribution, working with the same team with which she started her career in the ’80s and ’90s, while at Alliance Communications.

At both Alliance and Maximum Films, she often worked with her father and mentor, Tony Cianciotta.

Over the years, Grace worked with dozens of Canadian filmmakers, including Denys Arcand, Atom Egoyan, David Cronenberg and Jeremy Podeswa.

Those who worked with her say her name, Grace, suited her perfectly. One colleague described her as ‘one of the nicest people I ever knew.’

She is survived by her father, his partner Anna Maria Muccilli, her brother Anthony and his wife Arlene, her niece Olivia and countless friends. She was predeceased by her mother. Funeral arrangements are to be determined.

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This story has been corrected. Cianciotta died in 2008, not 2007 as originally reported.