Toronto International Film Festival programmer Andréa Picard is going from contributor to curator of the Visions sidebar.

Picard, who has been with TIFF since 1999 and programmed the Wavelengths section, will now curate Visions, which showcases free-flow and daring filmmaking like past festival titles Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Blissfully and Andrei Ujica’s The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu.

The promotion was announced by festival co-director Cameron Bailey.

“While other programmers will continue to contribute to Visions, Andréa will provide its shape. This is one step in an ongoing process of developing and refining the festival’s programmes,” Bailey explained.

The 36th Toronto International Film Festival is set to run from September 8 to 18, 2011.