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  Toronto International Film Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is widely considered to be one of the top film festivals in the world and is the premiere film festival in North America which the Oscars race begins from.
The festival is considered a launch pad for many studios to begin "Oscar-buzz" for their films; for example, Taylor Hackford's Ray premiered at the festival and garnered much attention for Jamie Foxx's portrayal of Ray Charles (for which he ultimately won the Academy Award for Best Actor).
Many notable films have had their global or North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, including Chariots of Fire, The Big Chill, Husbands and Wives, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Downfall, and Sideways.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toronto_International_Film_Festival   (448 words)

  
 OFFOFFOFF film festival TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: EUROPEAN VISTAS
A large part of the enjoyment in attending a film festival of Toronto's magnitude is the chance to get caught up in stories unfolding against a wide range of international locations.
At the 29th Toronto fest, some of the European locales on view were exotic in their allure, while others were recreations of famous cities during pivotal times in history.
While big-studio boutique films generated their own buzz, a number of lower-flying entries in the Toronto Film Festival pushed boundaries, possibilities and sometimes credibility.
www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/toronto_a.php   (1593 words)

  
 Toronto film festival
These films, in other words, were not made in response to the "demands of the market."They may or may not be successful at the box office, but that is not the reason they were created.
Many film directors currently at work know a considerable amount about the history of the cinema, at least in a formal sense, i.e., they can invoke the proper names and references, but they know very little about the history of the twentieth century and its implications.
Halfway through the film, as the little girl stands at the front of a bus, we hear the director's voice: "Don't look at the camera, Mina." The girl takes off the fake cast and her head scarf and announces that she is not acting any more.
www.wsws.org /francais/hiscul/1997/automne/torfilm.shtml   (2073 words)

  
 '11'09"01" Screening Turns Out to be Most Sought-After of the Fest - by Zap2it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
TORONTO (Zap2it.com) - For more than three hours, film critics from around the world lined up to see the most widely anticipated film of the Toronto International Film Festival, "11'09"01" for its first screening -- and for the most part, they were disappointed.
Some of the statements in the film appeared to have anti-American sentiment, garnering both hisses and applause from the audience during the screening.
Meanwhile, film festival offices remain closed for business, and screenings are delayed until after noon for Toronto commemorations to the attacks on America.
www.zap2it.com /movies/film_festivals/story/0,4404,13668,00.html   (1679 words)

  
 Toronto Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The film is the final instalment in Mehta's trilogy named after the elements, following the 1996 film Fire and 1998's Earth, which both premiered at the festival.
The build-up to the Toronto International Film Festival began to heat up as organiser Noah Cowan announced a selection of the cinematic highlights to be screened.
All told, the festival is looking for nearly $200 million, with $50 million for an endowment fund to cover operating and maintenance costs and about $20 million for moving and transition costs.
www.torontofilmfestival.com   (1080 words)

  
 Film Festivals . com - Toronto
In addition, she's in a festival movie about the father of film, Eisenstein and has a starring role as the Leader Of the Universe Da'an in the Trekkie show "Earth Final Conflict," (where she uncomplainingly wears an alien headpiece that looks like twenty pounds of rubber).
The film was preceded by long speeches commemorating the 25th anniversary of the festival by Canada's Minister of Culture, Sheila Cops; Piers Handling and Michele Maheux, the Festival Directors; and an introduction to three old codgers who are founders of the festival: William Marshall, Dusty Cohl and Henk Van der Kolk.
Then they showed the film, which was, as hinted earlier, a weak justification of male menopause (many, many boob shots while Pare says "I like older men", which is disappointing because Arcand is capable of genius).
www.filmfestivals.com /toronto_2000/index_openingnight.html   (636 words)

  
 The GATE :: 2005 Toronto International Film Festival
The GATE is out on the street and in the threates trying to catch everything we can from the 30th Toronto International Film Festival.
Traditionally, the first weekend of the film festival are the days that are the most top heavy in terms of stars and filmmakers coming into town to make the scene and showcase their films.
Last year was a big year for the Toronto International Film Festival as over 400 celebrity guests arrived for the parties, red carpets and festivities of North America's most important film festival.
www.thegate.ca /tiff   (479 words)

  
 Toronto International Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
His latest film, A History of Violence, is also receivng its North American premiere at TIFF and is reported to be one of the best films appearing at this year’s Festival.
The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the biggest and most important film festivals in the world.
The emphasis in this film is race and ethnicity and the fears and prejudices revealed in a multi-cultural society.
www.canadafreepress.com /2005/films090705.htm   (671 words)

  
 Toronto Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
But festival organizers are struggling to keep stargazing from overshadowing dealmaking amid what has become an active behind-the-scenes market for independent films and international fare.
International film curators, buyers and media might then take a second (or even first) look at Canadian films before returning home.The festival will attempt to generate more buzz for its entire lineup by hosting advance screenings and encouraging local media to write capsule reviews of those films.Cowan notes that sales agents have embraced these changes.
Toronto has seen an average of 20-25 titles sold each year in its unofficial market, and organizers estimate that current efforts to make the festival more buyer-friendly will see another half-dozen titles sell foreign rights annually going forward.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000621397   (1092 words)

  
 Welcome to Toronto! Toronto City Guide & Information
Toronto is a clean, safe, cosmopolitan city with a wonderful network of parks, recreational, and cultural facilities.
Toronto is the home of four professional sports teams and the third largest English-speaking theatre district in the world, behind New York and London.
Toronto introduces the 647 area code in March 2001 and will require local 10-digit dialing for all telephone calls within the Toronto area.
www.math.toronto.edu /toronto   (234 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Toronto International Film Festival 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Festival literature bills it as a comedy about Canadian tax-shelter films of the 1970s.
There are so many promising films, it feels like the festival has arrived at a turning point.
In fact, the festival has got to the point where some movie buffs are complaining the Canadiana is spread too thin.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/filmfest2003   (957 words)

  
 Toronto International Film Festival Group
The Group's Mandate is to cultivate an appreciation and understanding of film and the moving image.
Our Mission is to Inspire audiences to a greater understanding of the world's cultures through film, Celebrate past, present and future achievements of Canadian and international filmmaking, and Illuminate the power of film through education for all ages.
Festival Centre is a global centre to celebrate film and the moving image.
www.tiffg.ca   (405 words)

  
 Toronto International Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Other Gala titles include Peter Kosminsky's White Oleander, the story of a foster child whose mother is in prison for murder, and the world premiere of Moonlight Mile, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a young man who falls in love with a woman while living with the parents of his deceased fiancee.
Previous films that were part of this program include In the Bedroom and Amelie.
Filmmakers visiting the festival are asked to name a film that had a large impact on their careers.
www.toronto.com /feature/12470/3.html   (507 words)

  
 MCN: Toronto Film Festival 2004
But the context in each case will be Toronto relevant and any one of them could be up for a fresh discussion as they close in on their release dates.
I can't recall being to a festival of this size where so few of the regulars on the circuit had so little to say to one another.
People were simply going to a wide variety of films and the festival was large enough to accommodate vastly different itineraries.
www.moviecitynews.com /festivals/toronto_2004   (946 words)

  
 Toronto International Film Festival 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The film itself was a disappointment, with too much time spent on various current relationship stories only peripherally connected to the main story of the Turkish genocide of the Armenians in 1915.
Made in 1997, this was Robert Guediguin's seventh film with the same ensemble cast and crew covering many different eras in twentieth century France, all of which embody Guediguin's view of the rise and fall of Mitterand's Common Front and the subsequent neo- liberalism.
In response to the question of whether this film is misogynistic, Maggie Gyllendhal said that while she accepted that there was a need for all sorts of rules to equalize relations between men and women, it was now time to question whether these rules are still needed.
www.geocities.com /evelynleeper/tiff2002.htm   (5882 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Toronto International Film Festival 2004
Out of a total of 253 features, the festival's organizers are boasting that 40 qualify as Canadian (and that figure doesn't even take into account other features that have connections to Canada).
From André Forcier, this film examines the claims of the Eternal Colonel, a man living in Mexico who may or may not be Elvis Presley.
One of the great ironies of the festival is that the films themselves often get lost amid all the stories focusing on the celebrities who temporarily descend on Toronto.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/filmfest2004   (1058 words)

  
 TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL 2003
Alejandro González Iñarritu’s follow-up to the brilliant Amores Perros blends elements of that film (a horrible incident involving a car that affects three different threads of the story) with — and this may seem really hard to believe — Return to Me’s falling in love with the recipient of your dead spouse’s heart.
The 81-minute film, which is essentially his take on the Columbine massacre, isn’t even a tidy 81 minutes.
He plays an American actor in Tokyo to film spots for a Japanese whiskey, but he has a miserable time until he meets a lonely newlywed (Scarlett Johansson) whose husband (Giovanni Ribisi) is too busy working to pay attention to her.
www.sick-boy.com /toronto2003.htm   (3124 words)

  
 TheStar.com - A&E/Filmfest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
07:39 AM After years of watching the Toronto International Film Festival unfold from the sidelines, put off by a seemingly complicated ticket-buying process, Maureen Dunne is finally going to see her first festival movie.
Reporter and illustrator Chris Hutsul casts a cartoonist's eye on the film fest's late-night alternative series of horror films, b-movies and sci-fi flicks, through the continuing adventures of Mr.
Hundreds of films are rolling into Toronto for the film festival.
www.thestar.com /filmfest   (2218 words)

  
 Sprockets
The films are hand picked by the people who bring you Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children and the Toronto International Film Festival® and include some of the best family films that the international film community has to offer.
Geared toward children aged 8 and up, these films explore issues that are important to kids and offer high quality entertainment, outside of the mainstream.
In 1998 we established Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children to share the transformational power of film with young audiences.
www.bell.ca /sprockets   (375 words)

  
 The Film Reference Library
The Film Reference Library, with more than 17,000 book titles and 60,000 film files, holds the world's most extensive English language collection of Canadian film-related material plus the unique archival collections of Canada's most esteemed filmmakers.
The Canadian Film Encyclopedia (CFE) includes over 500 film title, filmmaker and subject entries, covering some of Canada's foremost historical and contemporary films and filmmakers.
The Brave Films, Wild Nights Poster Tour was created to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival® and the 10th Anniversary of the Film Reference Library in the year 2000.
www.filmreferencelibrary.ca   (198 words)

  
 .:: NorthByNortheast - June 8, 9, 10, 2006 ::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
TORONTO JUNE 16, 2005: "It was scorching hot" - and this statement doesn't just describe the weather but the amazing music that made this year's NXNE the biggest and best ever.
Not only did the music festival and conference break records but NXNE's unique music-based film festival has had a break through with all the fest's films playing to packed theatres.
This was the fifth year for the NXNE Film Festival and thanks to film festival producer Ambrose Roche it featured a record number of film screenings.
www.nxne.com   (826 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Toronto feasts its eyes on Kidman, Hopkins, Ebert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
TORONTO — Opening weekend of the Toronto Film Festival was full of big stars, big movies and big attendance — but thanks to a mini-furor involving critic Roger Ebert last year, plenty of room at screenings.
The Montreal World Film Festival also closed, with the news that Ingmar Bergman's latest film, Saraband, reunites Erland Josephson and Liv Ullman, stars of the director's 1973 hit Scenes From a Marriage.
The film guru has slimmed down quite a bit, but not so much that admirers don't still recognize him on the street.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2003-09-07-toronto_x.htm   (985 words)

  
 Lost Film Festival Homepage
The film follows the award-winning reporter-sleuth Greg Palast on the trail of the Bush family, from Florida election finagling, to the Saudi connection, to the Bush team’s spiking the FBI investigation of the bin Laden family and the secret State Department plans for post-war Iraq.
Festival director Scott Beibin spins the films in the way a house DJ spins records, and narrates the scoop with shared secrets and behind the scenes info.
Originally the festival was to be held earlier this year, but due to family issues with Scott, we had to postpone..which made the fest far better in our opinion.
www.lostfilmfest.com   (15818 words)

  
 indieWIRE
Despite the festival's October dates, well past the warm Hamptons high season when the area is overrun by weekenders packing into their expensive summer rentals, the region's main drag -- The Montauk Highway -- was quite busy during the event, making trek's between venues in both towns quite difficult at times.
The film expanded to dozens of additional screens over the weekend, placing first on the iW BOT chart as ranked on a per screen basis, and the feature also grossed the second highest returns for a specialty title overall.
The film, which was the top prizewinner at the Karlovy Film Festival this summer, is the story of self-styled street artist, Nikifor whose passion and torment drove him to create over 40,000 works of art during his lifetime.
www.indiewire.com   (2987 words)

  
 Adelaide Film Festival 2007
A further 3022 attendances were recorded across Festival's forum program, 630 for the regional program and 6390 at the exhibitions and other free events.
The Adelaide Film Festival, through its Investment Fund, is proud to present the World Premiere of Adelaide filmmaker Rolf de Heer's latest and most fascinating film.
Look Both Ways, the first feature film to be funded by AFFIF has won one of the two top awards at the Toronto Film Festival, the Discovery Award.
www.adelaidefilmfestival.org   (500 words)

  
 At Toronto's Film Festival, Characters And Actors (washingtonpost.com)
TORONTO -- The Oscar handicapping moved into well-oiled gear this past weekend at the Toronto Film Festival, where Hollywood stars have come out for interviews, photo ops and seen-around-town-last-night antics.
Not that festival organizers Piers Handling and Noah Cowan planned it this way but it's difficult not to notice that a certain male body part has, uh, emerged as an unofficial theme.
There it is on full display in "Kinsey," the film that deals with society's attitudes about sex.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A19202-2004Sep13.html   (627 words)

  
 Toronto International Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Toronto International Film Festival® has proved to be one of the most successful cinematic events in the world, universally regarded as an ideal platform for film premieres.
Film historian Marc Glassman guides you through a remarkable range of cinematography, from independent films to Hollywood features, and introduces you to the behind-the-scenes world of the Festival.
Festival schedules are finalized only weeks before the program begins.
smithsonianjourneys.org /international/090904film.asp   (235 words)

  
 Toronto International Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Founded in 1976 as the Festival of Festivals, the annual movie fete re-branded itself back in the early '90s, and since then, has been increasingly drawing international crowds and attention.
Every TIFF includes hundreds of films, running the gamut from indie shorts to star-studded blockbusters, and draws talent and big names into town from Hollywood South and around the world.
There will be 109 world premieres shown at the festival, which has become one of the film industry's most talked about festivals.
www.toronto.com /profile/823080?context=attractions&cslink=cs_generic_3_0   (306 words)

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