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Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt opening night of Toronto Film Festival
Read full article: Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt opening night of Toronto Film FestivalPro-Palestinian protesters disrupted an opening night screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, chanting āStop the genocide!ā.
On movie screens in Toronto, home is a battleground
Read full article: On movie screens in Toronto, home is a battlegroundAs the Toronto International Film Festival winds down after a week of wall-to-wall premieres, there has been no more fraught turf than the land that families try to eke out a life on, amid geopolitical storms knocking on the front door.
Film festival season carries on in Toronto, despite a star-power outage
Read full article: Film festival season carries on in Toronto, despite a star-power outageWhen SAG-AFTRA announced a strike this summer, Cameron Bailey, the longtime chief executive of the Toronto International Film Festival, dusted off his COVID-19 playbook.
Hayao Miyazaki's 'The Boy and the Heron' to open Toronto Film Festival
Read full article: Hayao Miyazaki's 'The Boy and the Heron' to open Toronto Film FestivalāThe Boy and the Heron,ā the first film in a decade by Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki, will open the 48th Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Thursday.
Steven Spielberg's 'Fabelmans' wins Toronto audience award
Read full article: Steven Spielberg's 'Fabelmans' wins Toronto audience awardSteven Spielbergās autobiographical coming-of-age drama āThe Fabelmansā won the Toronto International Film Festivalās top prize, the Peopleās Choice Award, solidifying its early status as Academy Awards frontrunner.
Toronto Film Festival to open with āDear Evan Hansenā
Read full article: Toronto Film Festival to open with āDear Evan HansenāThe adaptation of the Broadway hit and Tony-winner āDear Evan Hansen,ā Edgar Wrightās ā60s London themed āLast Night in Soho,ā and āThe Eyes of Tammy Fayeā are just a few of the major films coming to the Toronto International Film Festival this September.
ChloĆ© Zhaoās 'Nomadland' wins TIFF People's Choice Award
Read full article: ChloĆ© Zhaoās 'Nomadland' wins TIFF People's Choice AwardThis image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Frances McDormand in a scene from the film "Nomadland" by Chloe Zhao. (Searchlight Pictures via AP)After picking up Venice's Golden Lion award, ChloĆ© Zhaoās ā Nomadland " has won another prestigious honor: The Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award. Zhao's film features Frances McDormand as a widowed wanderer of the modern American West. Set for a Dec. 4 release, āNomadlandā has already been hailed as a top Oscar contender, but winning the audience award at TIFF is promising for its Oscar chances. Other People's Choice winners include Michelle Latimer's documentary āInconvenient Indian," about Indigenous peoples in North America, and Roseanne Liang's midnight madness selection āShadow in the Cloud," with ChloĆ« Grace Moretz.
Digital and drive-in, film festivals try to salvage a season
Read full article: Digital and drive-in, film festivals try to salvage a seasonThis year, three of the four major fall film festivals, including Venice, are going forward despite the pandemic. This year, three of the four major fall film festivals all but Telluride, which had to cancel are going forward despite the pandemic. For a season predicated on badge-wearing throngs and marquee movies, its meant rethinking what a film festival is. A situation like this forces you to assess what is fundamental, says Dennis Lim, director of programming for the New York Film Festival. Anyone in Canada will be able to buy tickets to TIFF screenings, and New York Film Festival films will be briefly available nationwide.
Toronto sets lineup, Regina King to debut Muhammad Ali film
Read full article: Toronto sets lineup, Regina King to debut Muhammad Ali filmThis combination photo shows actor-director Werner Herzog, left, and actress-director Regina King. The Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday unveiled a lineup featuring the directorial debut of Regina King and the latest documentary from Herzog. Toronto, which is set to run Sept. 10-19, has plotted a largely virtual 45th edition due to the pandemic. In normal years, TIFF is the largest film festival in North America. Some of the films will play first at the much smaller Venice Film Festival the week prior in September.
Spike Lee doc of David Byrne's Broadway show to open TIFF
Read full article: Spike Lee doc of David Byrne's Broadway show to open TIFFNEW YORK The 45th Toronto International Film Festival will be a much diminished event this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it has an opening-night film. Spike Lee's filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway theatrical concert American Utopia will kick off the largely virtual fall festival. TIFF's Toronto headquarters currently remain closed. The former Talking Heads frontman's American Utopia played at New York's Hudson Theatre from October 2019 through February 2020. With David Brynes American Utopia, he brings Byrnes classic songs and joyous stagecraft to the screen just when we need it.