Tuesday’s press conference by the Toronto International Film Festival to unveil the first round of film picks predictably tipped its hat to homegrown Canadian film.

“We are thrilled to present three Canadian galas,” festival director Piers Handling said, as he introduced Roy Thomson Hall slots for Don McKellar’s The Grand Seduction, Jonathan Sobol’s The Art of the Steal and Jeremiah Chechik’s The Right Kind of Wrong.

But what followed as part of the Special Presentations sidebar announcements should clear a logjam of Canadian-financed films contending for prized slots for local fare at TIFF.

After all, the Hollywood studios have brought Toronto a slew of star-driven movies shot by Canadian directors to generate Oscar buzz around them.

That includes Focus Features bringing Jean-Marc Vallee’s AIDS drama Dallas Buyers Club, top-lined by Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner, to TIFF.

Also Toronto-bound is Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot, starring Reese Witherspoon, and Jason Reitman’s coming-of-age tale Labor Day, courtesy of Paramount, with Kate Winslet and John Brolin starring.

Elsewhere, Warner Bros. is debuting the Hugh Jackman thriller Prisoners, directed by Denis Villeneuve, at TIFF in a bid to possibly repeat the Oscar buzz the Quebec director generated with Incendies.

Warner Bros. could yet bring another Reese Witherspoon-starrer, The Good Lie, to Toronto, after Phillipe Falardeau lensed the picture.

However, the word is, having just finished production in Africa, Falardeau’s latest picture will not be ready for Toronto, or Venice or Telluride for that matter.

All of which has given more breathing room to Toronto programmers as they look to shoe-horn a slew of local films into the prestigious festival.

There’s still Villeneuve’s other movie to consider, Enemy, a Canada-Spain co-production with some U.K. financing from Pathe, to weigh for a TIFF slot.

And the word is All The Wrong Reasons, Gia Milani’s directorial debut that stars the late Cory Monteith as a department store manager, has snagged a TIFF slot, to be unveiled on Aug. 7.

Also looking for a Toronto berth is Michael Dowse’s The F Word, starring Daniel Radcliffe, and Sturla Gunnarson’s The Frozen.