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NewsToronto unveils new city section, announces first programme selections
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced the first selections for its 34th edition (September 10-19).
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NewsOne Man Village, Invisible City take top prizes at Hot Docs
Lebanese documentary The One Man Village won the Best International Feature Award and Hubert Davis’ Invisible City won the Best Canadian Feature prize as the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival wrapped in Toronto over the weekend.
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NewsTIFF gets C$6m federal grant to promote Toronto
The Toronto International Film Festival will receive a two-year grant of $4.9m (C$6m) from the Canadian government to promote Toronto to the world.
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Toronto Documentary Forum unveils 25 project pitches
The Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Film Festival has announced the 25 projects to be presentedduring the Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF), to be held May 6-7. The tenth anniversary of TDF featureprojects from 13 countries selected from 160 submissions.
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TIFFG names Karen Black director, Canadian initiatives
The Toronto International Film Festival Group has named Karen Black as director, Canadian initiatives, for the organisation. Black has served as acting director for the past year, following Cam Haynes' departure in 2008.Her remit includes TIFFG's Film Circuit, Canada's Top Ten and the Student Film Showcase. She will also be ...
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NewsMy Winnipeg wins inaugural Toronto critic's Best Canadian Film Award
Guy Maddin’s meta-documentary My Winnipeg won the inaugural C$10,000 Rogers Best Canadian FilmAward as the Toronto Film Critics Association held its first awards gala in Toronto Tuesday night.
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NewsToronto critics pick Wendy And Lucy as Best Film
Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy was Best Picture and the film’s star Michelle Williams earned the Best Actress nod as the Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) announced its 2008 honours.
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Toronto critics launch C$10,000 Canadian film prize
The Toronto Film Critics Association will this year inaugurate the first Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, a C$10,000 ($8,000) prize to be presented to the year’s best Canadian feature as judged by the group. The prize will presented at the 11th annual TFCA dinner on January 6, 2009.‘The TFCA wants ...
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Canada's Telefilm anoints Gross, Martinelli, Vince for slate development
Telefilm Canada has selected three Canadian production companies for its Slate Development Pilot Program (SDPP): Gabriella Martinelli's Capri Films, Paul Gross' Whizbang Films and Robert Vince's Keystone Pictures.Financed under the Canadian Feature Film Fund (CFFF), the slate development pilot program was established last year to match Canadian producers with Canadian ...
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IFC Entertainment picks up the gothic horror film Sauna
IFC Entertainment has acquired North American rights to AJ Annila’s gothic horror film Sauna.
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Ghent Festival honours Richard Jenkins
Veteran actor Richard Jenkins will be honoured at the 35th Ghent International Film Festival with their Special Achievement Award.It will be presented after the Benelux premiere of The Visitor in Ghent, Belgium on Oct 7. Jenkins, along with co-stars Haaz Sleiman and Danai Gurira will attend the screening.In Overture's The ...
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Slovaks submit Blind Loves for Oscar
The Slovak Film and Television Academy will submit Juraj Lehotsky's documentary Blind Loves for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.Blind Loves, which screened in Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, follows four blind people as they experience love in their everyday lives. The film also screened at London BFI, ...
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Final Word: Toronto International Film Festival
Screen International looks back at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Click section to see more.Festival and market reviewToronto reviews Toronto salesToronto stories and festival dailies
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IFC buys Che from Wild Bunch; plans Oscar-qualifying December run
In one of Toronto's most-anticipated deals, IFC Films has taken North American rights to Steven Soderbergh's epic Che starring Benicio Del Toro.IFC plans a one-week Oscar qualifying run in New York and Los Angeles, followed by a release in January through multi-platform initiative IFC In Theatres.IFC president Jonathan Sehring, VP ...
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Axiom strikes UK deals for Goodbye Solo, Sugar, The Sea Wall
UK distributor Axiom Films has picked up three titles from Toronto to add to its growing slate. They are Goodbye Solo, Sugar and The Sea Wall.Memento is selling Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo, which won the Fipresci prize at Venice Critics Week. The story follows an African-born cab driver who befriends ...
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Summit picks up Hurt Locker, IFC Films gets Che at Toronto
Summit Entertainment has picked up US rights to Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker in the second significant domestic deal of the festival. The distributor closed the deal late on Tuesday night and plans to release the film in 2009. The deal follows a successful North American premiere for the war ...
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Ole Christian Madsen plans sex addiction drama
Ole Christian Madsen, here at TIFF with Danish smash hit Flame & Citron (The Match Factory has sold to 25 territories including IFC for the US), has several new projects in the works. The first to shoot will be a film about sex addiction to shoot in Denmark in December ...
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Newton heats up next projects after Three Blind Mice
Australian actor/writer/director Matthew Newton, here with Three Blind Mice, has two new scripts in development.People People is about a 40-year-old married couple trying to stay together. 'It's about comfort versus freedom,' Newton says. 'It's like an anti-rom-com, about how we relate to each other.'He also has LA-set genre piece about ...
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Maximum takes six films apiece from Fortissimo, Cinetic
After an earlier TIFF deal for Steve Jacobs' Disgrace, Canadian distributor Maximum Film Distribution has taken on a package of six films from Fortissimo's current slate.Maximum has also taken Canadian rights to six titles from New York-based Cinetic Media as part of an exclusive output agreement between the two companies ...
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Palisades Tartan extends Fortissimo library deal
Palisades Tartan UK, the Palisades Pictures subsidiary formed with the takeover of the library of the now-defunct Tartan Films, has struck a deal to extend its UK distribution rights to Fortissimo Films titles.The library includes more than 30 films including Mysterious Skin, Capturing The Friedmans, 2046, Super Size Me, The ...