Jeremiah Chechik’s The Right Kind of Wrong, Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls and shorts including Chris Landreth’s Subconscious Password are featured in the Canadian film lineup.
Filmmakers, media and cinephiles descended upon Toronto’s Royal York Hotel Wednesday for the unveiling of the Canadian feature lineup and industry program participants (Rising Stars pictured).
The festival announces its Pitch This!, Producers Lab, Talent and Rising Star rosters.
The second annual east-west bridge-building conference will take place on Sept. 2 at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Hollywood studios putting star-driven films by veteran Canadian directors into the Oscar race via TIFF has opened up space for more local films to get into the prestigious Canadian festival (Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners pictured).
Director and CEO Piers Handling and artistic director Cameron Bailey also on Tuesday morning announced the festival’s opening and closing galas.
The five finalists, including two Canadian filmmakers, received a $500 bursary to develop a short film on the topic of memory.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Chris Landreth’s Subconscious Password (pictured) won for best short film at the prestigious European festival.
The exhibit, to run from November until January, will include specially-commissioned works of art as well as film screenings and props from iconic movies such as The Fly. (Cronenberg pictured)
TIFF artistic director Cameron Bailey and international programmer Dimitri Eipides said in a conference call the 10 yet-to-be-selected films will be contemporary works.