Buffalo Gal producer Jean du Toit is coming into the Toronto International Film Festival with a movie in the fest lineup, and another she’s eyeing as a Canada-Europe coproduction.

Guy Maddin’s Keyhole, the Jason Patric-starrer about a surreal indoor odyssey of one man, will debut Friday night at Bell Lightbox as part of the Special Presentations sidebar.

The Winnipeg producer is also taking part in TIFF’s Toronto Producers Lab to find a European coproduction partner for a romantic comedy she’s developing, Kush Kush in the Bush.

The story-within-a-story film, set on a Bollywood movie set, features a female character facing an upcoming arranged marriage who also happens to fall in love with a man who is not Indian.

“It’s all very fish out of water,” she explains.

So du Toit is coming to the networking forum interested in a European producer that can provide entry into the Bollywood world.

“I’m also looking forward to meeting the rest of the producers and seeing what projects they have in development and with whom we could possibly work,” she adds.

Here, du Toit’s Bollywood rom-com and its promise of on-set romance dovetails nicely with her participation in the Toronto Producers Lab, which is all about striking a potential union between Canadian and European producers to make movies together.

“It’s like an arranged marriage,” she says of the networking forum.

“At the end of the day, it’s not only the project that has to appeal to coproducers, it’s also the personalities. There’s a lot of factors at play. When something does come together, it is rather serendipitous,” du Toit adds.