Festivals

TIFF13 Trailers: Canadian films

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.

TIFF unveils Canadian lineup, industry talent

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).

TIFF announces industry talent, Rising Stars

The festival announces its Pitch This!, Producers Lab, Talent and Rising Star rosters.

TIFF13: Dowse, McDonald features to bow at TIFF

Michael Dowse’s The F Word and Bruce McDonald’s The Husband, along with Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky doc Watermark are amongst the Canadian films in this year’s festival lineup.

Keanu Reeves, Niv Fichman topline Asian Film Summit lineup

The second annual east-west bridge-building conference will take place on Sept. 2 at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Zweig, Obomsawin docs to screen at TIFF13

Festival organizers also announced the City to City, Cinematheque, Vanguard and Midnight Madness lineups (Alan Zweig’s When Jews Were Funny pictured).

How Toronto booking U.S. movies by Canadian directors clears Cancon logjam

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).

TIFF13: Sobol, McKellar, Chechik films to get gala treatment

Director and CEO Piers Handling and artistic director Cameron Bailey also on Tuesday morning announced the festival’s opening and closing galas.

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Finalists announced for 2013 RBC emerging filmmakers competition

The five finalists, including two Canadian filmmakers, received a $500 bursary to develop a short film on the topic of memory.

NFB animated shorts win big at Annecy

Oscar-winning filmmaker Chris Landreth’s Subconscious Password (pictured) won for best short film at the prestigious European festival.

Details of TIFF’s special Cronenberg Project revealed

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 announces Athens as focus of City to City program

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.