‘Edgy’ is the cornucopia of films from ‘virtually every country in the world’ at the 32nd annual Toronto International Film Festival, according to Piers Handling.
Communications master and Serendipity Point Films producer Robert Lantos learned in 1978 that screaming ‘censorship’ from coast-to-coast would grab a lot of free press for a film with no marketing budget.
Balance is not a word typically used to describe horror master David Cronenberg. But Eastern Promises producer Robert Lantos says Cronenberg can balance a budget like a mathematician.
Murder by undertakers, fortune from tragedy and the psychological craziness that occurs after a first kiss are just a few of the plotlines that reinvigorate movie genres in this year’s Canada First! section.