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Hefner ‘moved’ by Berman doc

Playboy patriarch praises Canuck filmmaker at the world premiere of documentary about his life

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Lantos, Cronenberg defend TIFF

Row over Tel Aviv spotlight escalates as domestic and out-of-town filmmakers take sides and trade barbs. Jacobovici calls out Greyson

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Colony doc makes a buzz

TIFF film about the mass disappearance of bees to be handled worldwide by E1

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CFTPA kudos goes to Tierney

Producer of TIFF buzz-maker The Trotsky receives $10,000 producer’s award. ‘This is the happiest movie of my life.’

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Creation bows amid added glitz

Opening Toronto fest ‘fills my heart with pride,’ says producer, as organizers embrace controversy over 34th edition

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ThinkFilm-ers reunite under Urman

Distribution vet forms new company, picking up Teardrop Diamond ahead of TIFF

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Bank boosts Talent Lab

$15,000 prize added to program for new filmmakers at TIFF. Danny Boyle, Don McKellar to mentor

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Tough market for indies at TIFF

Glut of films financed in better times arrive while deal-shy distributors struggle, shrink or close their doors

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Top honors for Korkoro, Weaving Girl at WFF

Montreal festival also fetes Quebec filmmaker Roger Cantin and thesp Pierre Lebeau at closing ceremony

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Ontario pumps $10 million into TIFF

Province’s deputy premier praises festival’s ‘economic stimulus’ with grant towards Bell Lightbox

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Artists slam TIFF Tel Aviv spotlight

Open letter signed by actors such as Jane Fonda and award-winning author Alice Walker says festival has become ‘complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine’

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Equinoxe bows out of distribution

Loss of capital from France Film leaves production side in question after distribution business shuts down