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ThR.cOM/TORONTO<br />
INDUSTRYWORKS<br />
brings critical acclaim<br />
<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> controversial<br />
AMERICAN MARY<br />
TORONTO<br />
DAILY<br />
№1<br />
S E P T E M B E R<br />
7, 2 0 1 2<br />
AMERICAN MARY<br />
“American Mary is a film not <strong>to</strong> be missed! A true original modern horror.”<br />
- EatSleepLiveFilm<br />
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S E P T E M B E R 7, 2 0 1 2<br />
B R E A K I N G<br />
N E W S<br />
Metropolitan takes Land<br />
of Hope for France<br />
Zellweger<br />
To Helm<br />
First Film<br />
By Tatiana Siegel<br />
RENEE ZELLWEGER<br />
is moving behind<br />
<strong>the</strong> camera.<br />
<strong>The</strong> actress will make her<br />
direc<strong>to</strong>rial debut with <strong>the</strong><br />
comedy 4 1/2 Minutes. Zellweger<br />
also will star<br />
alongside Johnny<br />
Knoxville in <strong>the</strong><br />
film that is set in<br />
Zellweger New York’s standup<br />
comedy world.<br />
<strong>The</strong> film’s financing and<br />
sales deal was finished Thursday<br />
between K5 International<br />
and Kevin Frakes’ PalmStar<br />
Media Capital.<br />
Knoxville will play Jimmy<br />
Bennett, a commitmentphobic,<br />
train-wreck comedian<br />
whose life is falling apart when<br />
he takes a job looking after <strong>the</strong><br />
genius son of single mom P.J.<br />
Andersen (Zellweger).<br />
Written by Anthony Tambakis<br />
(Warrior) and based on <strong>the</strong><br />
comedy of real-life stand-up<br />
Dov Davidoff. <strong>The</strong> film will be<br />
produced by Frakes, Zellweger<br />
and Tambakis through <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
All Toge<strong>the</strong>r Now banner.<br />
Production will kick off in<br />
February in New York.<br />
K5 is presenting <strong>the</strong><br />
project <strong>to</strong> buyers at TIFF.<br />
CAA is handling North<br />
American rights.<br />
<strong>The</strong> project marks <strong>the</strong> third<br />
collaboration for Zellweger<br />
and Tambakis, who recently<br />
received a pilot order for <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
original series Cinnamon Girl.<br />
Zellweger also will star in <strong>the</strong><br />
upcoming Broadway adaptation<br />
of <strong>The</strong> Hustler, written by<br />
Tambakis and <strong>to</strong> be directed by<br />
Gavin O’Connor. THR<br />
Cohen Media snaps up U.S.<br />
rights <strong>to</strong> thriller Capital<br />
Exclusive Media Launches<br />
U.S.Distribution Shingle<br />
New outfit will be dubbed Exclusive Releasing By Scott Roxborough and Tatiana Siegel<br />
THERE’S A NEW<br />
player in <strong>the</strong> domestic<br />
distribution and<br />
acquisitions arena.<br />
Exclusive Media is Brodlie<br />
launching Exclusive<br />
Releasing, a U.S. distribution<br />
company <strong>to</strong> be headed<br />
by veteran executives Scott<br />
Pascucci and Matt Brodlie. Pascucci<br />
Insiders say Exclusive Releasing<br />
Joseph Gordon-Levitt<br />
greets <strong>the</strong> fans before <strong>the</strong><br />
opening night screening of<br />
Rian Johnson’s Looper at<br />
<strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> International<br />
Film Festival.<br />
Eli Roth <strong>to</strong> Produce Up-and-Coming<br />
Horror Direc<strong>to</strong>r Ti West’s Sacrament<br />
By Scott Roxborough and Pamela McClin<strong>to</strong>ck<br />
HORRORMEISTER ELI ROTH HAS SIGNED ON<br />
<strong>to</strong> produce and present <strong>The</strong> Sacrament, a<br />
horror thriller from direc<strong>to</strong>r Ti West.<br />
Worldview Entertainment, which is building<br />
an impressive slate of projects, will finance and<br />
produce <strong>the</strong> film, while IM Global will handle<br />
international sales through its genre label Octane.<br />
1<br />
Penelope Wil<strong>to</strong>n joins cast<br />
of Amma Asante’s Belle<br />
Films’ distribution division,<br />
giving it instant<br />
infrastructure.<br />
Pascucci, who recently<br />
joined Exclusive from<br />
Grove Street Prods., will<br />
serve as president and chief<br />
operating officer. Brodlie<br />
will head up acquisitions,<br />
as he did for Paramount.<br />
<strong>The</strong> move comes on <strong>the</strong> eve of<br />
S E E T H R .COM/TO RONTO<br />
FOR FULL STO R I E S<br />
TORONTO<br />
№1<br />
Festival, where Exclusive Releasing<br />
will be on <strong>the</strong> prowl for pickups<br />
<strong>to</strong> feed its new release slate.<br />
Parent company Exclusive<br />
Media has three of its own films<br />
in official selection in Toron<strong>to</strong>: <strong>the</strong><br />
crime drama End of Watch starring<br />
Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael<br />
Pena, which Open Road Films will<br />
bow in <strong>the</strong> U.S.; Ramin Bahrani’s<br />
At Any Price, featuring Dennis<br />
likely will acquire Millennium <strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> International Film<br />
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ABOUT TOWN<br />
buyers at <strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> International<br />
Film Festival. CAA is repping domestic<br />
rights.<br />
Roth didn’t give many details of <strong>the</strong><br />
Roth project except <strong>to</strong> say Sacrament would be<br />
“Ti’s first mainstream movie, without sacrificing <strong>the</strong><br />
quality and unflinching horror of <strong>the</strong> subject matter.”<br />
Added Worldview CEO Chris<strong>to</strong>pher Woodrow, “Ti<br />
IM Global will introduce <strong>the</strong> film <strong>to</strong> foreign CONTINUED ON PAGE 6<br />
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LOOPER: GEORGE PIMENTEL/CONTRIBUTOR
<strong>the</strong> REPORT<br />
Sexy Girls 25 Years in <strong>the</strong> Making<br />
Veteran screenwriter —<br />
and <strong>Hollywood</strong> mom —<br />
Naomi Foner makes<br />
directing debut at 66<br />
By Tatiana Siegel<br />
ON ONE OF THE FINAL DAYS<br />
of shooting Very Good<br />
Girls, direc<strong>to</strong>r Naomi<br />
Foner bobbed ever so slightly on<br />
a moving pier in New York’s Port<br />
Authority Ferry Terminal — a<br />
trippy effect that induced a wave<br />
of vertigo in anyone watching.<br />
Even <strong>the</strong> film’s star Dakota<br />
Fanning admitted she felt <strong>the</strong><br />
rocking sensation hours after <strong>the</strong><br />
marathon shoot while lying in bed.<br />
Despite <strong>the</strong> shaky terrain,<br />
Foner remained surefooted, an apt<br />
metaphor for a woman making her<br />
feature direc<strong>to</strong>rial debut at <strong>the</strong> age<br />
of 66. Entrusted with a $10 million<br />
budget and a buzzy cast that also<br />
includes indie “It” girl Elizabeth<br />
Olsen, Ellen Barkin, Richard<br />
Dreyfuss and Demi Moore,<br />
Foner blocked out <strong>the</strong> chaos and<br />
uncertainty and brought her longgestating<br />
project <strong>to</strong> life.<br />
“We have a joke in my family<br />
that I’m probably <strong>the</strong> first<br />
grandmo<strong>the</strong>r <strong>to</strong> direct her<br />
Popular Children’s Book Tale Dark<br />
& Grimm Headed <strong>to</strong> Big Screen<br />
By Pamela McClin<strong>to</strong>ck<br />
FILMNATION ENTERTAINMENT AND<br />
Kamala Films are teaming <strong>to</strong> turn Adam<br />
Gidwitz’s popular children’s book A Tale<br />
Dark & Grimm in<strong>to</strong> a live-action feature.<br />
Jon Gunn (My Date With Drew) and<br />
John W. Mann (Mercy Streets) will write <strong>the</strong><br />
adapted screenplay.<br />
Gidwitz’s original frightening and witty<br />
s<strong>to</strong>ry — inspired by <strong>the</strong> Bro<strong>the</strong>rs Grimm —<br />
follows <strong>the</strong> adventures of two unsuspecting<br />
children who hold <strong>the</strong> key <strong>to</strong> breaking out of<br />
<strong>the</strong> Dark Ages.<br />
FilmNation has acquired film rights <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
book and will partner with Marissa McMahon<br />
of Kamala Films in financing and producing<br />
Dark & Grimm alongside FilmNation Entertainment’s<br />
Aaron Ryder and Karen Lunder.<br />
first feature,” Foner said during<br />
shooting, referring <strong>to</strong> her<br />
famous offspring, Jake and Maggie<br />
Gyllenhaal, and son-in-law<br />
Peter Sarsgaard.<br />
K5 is screening footage of <strong>the</strong><br />
film <strong>to</strong> international buyers at<br />
<strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> Film Festival, where<br />
it al<strong>read</strong>y is garnering heat. <strong>The</strong><br />
film inked a deal with SWEN<br />
for Latin America and also has<br />
sold in such terri<strong>to</strong>ries as Russia,<br />
<strong>the</strong> Czech Republic, Israel and<br />
<strong>the</strong> Middle East, South Africa,<br />
Greece, Portugal, Iceland, India,<br />
Singapore and Indonesia.<br />
Foner is no stranger <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
film business, boasting a long<br />
2<br />
and successful career as a<br />
screenwriter with such credits<br />
as Losing Isaiah and Bee Season<br />
as well as an Oscar nomination<br />
for Running on Empty. When<br />
she wrote Very Good Girls nearly<br />
three decades ago, she had no<br />
idea that <strong>the</strong> coming-of-age<br />
s<strong>to</strong>ry would take such a labyrinthine<br />
journey <strong>to</strong> fruition.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> extraordinary thing about<br />
Naomi is she fought for 25 years<br />
<strong>to</strong> make this movie,” explains <strong>the</strong><br />
film’s producer Michael London<br />
(Sideways). “It’s a sexy movie<br />
about girls on <strong>the</strong> cusp of adult<br />
sexuality. I’m surprised it <strong>to</strong>ok as<br />
long as it did. By my standards, it<br />
“We have been searching for distinctive<br />
source material for our first family<br />
project. Said Ryder, “We found this in Gidwitz’s<br />
witty manuscript and look forward <strong>to</strong><br />
nurturing <strong>the</strong> project with our partners at<br />
Kamala Films.”<br />
Added McMahon: “Gidwitz’s A Tale Dark<br />
& Grimm is a smart, addictive and hilariously<br />
gruesome narrative that turns familiar<br />
fairy tales on <strong>the</strong>ir head, much <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> delight<br />
of both children and parents. I’m looking<br />
forward <strong>to</strong> joining Mann, Gunn and <strong>the</strong><br />
FilmNation team <strong>to</strong> bring this fantastically<br />
original s<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> big screen.”<br />
Mann and Gunn are working with<br />
Universal on Chernin Entertainment’s <strong>The</strong><br />
Nutcracker as well as an original animated<br />
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Dakota Fanning and<br />
Boyd Holbrook star in<br />
<strong>the</strong> sexually charged<br />
Very Good Girls.<br />
felt commercial.”<br />
After falling in love with<br />
Foner’s script, London came<br />
aboard <strong>the</strong> project a year ago,<br />
helped untangle <strong>the</strong> rights from<br />
its longtime home at Sony and<br />
brought deep-pocketed financier<br />
Nor<strong>to</strong>n Herrick in<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> mix.<br />
<strong>The</strong> s<strong>to</strong>ry revolves around two<br />
high school seniors (Fanning<br />
and Olsen) looking <strong>to</strong> lose <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
virginity during <strong>the</strong> course of<br />
<strong>the</strong> summer after graduation.<br />
Although that setup has long<br />
been a staple of male-driven teen<br />
comedies, <strong>the</strong>re has been scant<br />
interest from studios <strong>to</strong> tackle <strong>the</strong><br />
female take on going all <strong>the</strong> way.<br />
“How often have we seen<br />
that flustered mo<strong>the</strong>r character<br />
catching her son (masturbating)<br />
and saying, ‘What am I going <strong>to</strong><br />
do with him?’” jokes Olsen of <strong>the</strong><br />
well-worn genre.<br />
“What’s interesting is that<br />
opportunities are opening up in<br />
what I like <strong>to</strong> call <strong>the</strong> third act<br />
of one’s life,” adds Foner. “We<br />
are perfectly capable. We are<br />
intelligent, and we have a lot of<br />
experience and wisdom. I think<br />
it’s a terrible shame not <strong>to</strong> make<br />
use of that.” THR<br />
Pike, Plummer<br />
Join Hec<strong>to</strong>r<br />
By Tatiana Siegel<br />
ROSAMUND PIKE AND CHRISTOPHER<br />
Plummer are becoming happy<br />
campers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pair are joining <strong>the</strong> cast of Peter<br />
Chelsom’s dramedy Hec<strong>to</strong>r and <strong>the</strong> Search<br />
for Happiness.<br />
Simon Pegg has al<strong>read</strong>y signed on <strong>to</strong> play<br />
<strong>the</strong> lead in <strong>the</strong> film, which Solution Entertainment<br />
Group is presenting <strong>to</strong> buyers at<br />
<strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> International Film Festival.<br />
UTA is repping U.S. rights.<br />
Pegg plays Hec<strong>to</strong>r, an eccentric yet irresistible<br />
London psychiatrist in crisis.<br />
Pike will portray his long-term girlfriend,<br />
while Plummer, coming off his Oscar win<br />
for Beginners, is taking on <strong>the</strong> role of Professor<br />
Coreman, leading guru for Happiness<br />
Studies at UCLA. THR<br />
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T H R A T T O R O N T O<br />
NEWS<br />
Kevin Cassidy<br />
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Pamela McClin<strong>to</strong>ck<br />
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Tatiana Siegel<br />
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Gary Baum<br />
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REVIEWERS<br />
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ART<br />
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PHOTO + VIDEO<br />
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PRODUCTION<br />
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SALES<br />
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To download a <strong>PDF</strong> of <strong>the</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Hollywood</strong> <strong>Reporter</strong>’s<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong> Film Festival,<br />
go <strong>to</strong>:THR.com/Toron<strong>to</strong>.<br />
Snoop has a spiritual<br />
experience with local<br />
vegetation in Reincarnated.<br />
Snoop: What I Learned<br />
About Making Movies<br />
<strong>The</strong> hip-hop icon drops some wisdom after making<br />
Rasta doc Reincarnated By Shirley Halperin<br />
THE DOGGFATHER GOES TO<br />
Jamaica, returns reborn as<br />
Snoop Lion. <strong>The</strong> s<strong>to</strong>ry may<br />
sound like it warrants a cymbal<br />
crash at <strong>the</strong> end, but Snoop<br />
Dogg’s trip <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> birthplace of<br />
cultural icon Bob Marley was<br />
anything but a joke.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 40-year-old rapper, ac<strong>to</strong>r,<br />
entrepreneur and, yes, smoker,<br />
headed <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> Caribbean island<br />
<strong>to</strong> write and record music, but<br />
he ended up with a documentary.<br />
Reincarnated which debuts<br />
<strong>to</strong>day. Directed by Andy Capper<br />
for VICE Films and produced by<br />
VICE Media co-founder Suroosh<br />
Alvi along with Snoop’s manager<br />
Ted Chung, <strong>the</strong> film chronicles a<br />
true rags-<strong>to</strong>-rap-<strong>to</strong>-riches s<strong>to</strong>ry<br />
of <strong>the</strong> hip hop star born Calvin<br />
Broadus and his quest for selffulfillment<br />
and a sense of place<br />
in <strong>the</strong> world. Was he, like Marley,<br />
sent <strong>to</strong> sp<strong>read</strong> a gospel? Is <strong>the</strong>re<br />
deeper meaning <strong>to</strong> surviving his<br />
gang-banging formative years,<br />
when so many o<strong>the</strong>rs didn’t? And<br />
when you’ve al<strong>read</strong>y accomplished<br />
so much, where do you go<br />
next?As far as his doc is concerned:<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong> — where Snoop<br />
says he al<strong>read</strong>y feels like he won.<br />
“For TIFF <strong>to</strong> even accept my<br />
movie, that’s enough for me,” he<br />
tells THR. “I never thought my<br />
movie would make it in<strong>to</strong> a festival<br />
with such critically acclaimed<br />
films. This ain’t my lane, but I<br />
love every minute of it.”<br />
4<br />
No stranger <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> movie<br />
business having appeared in<br />
such comedies as Soul Plane, Old<br />
School, Starsky & Hutch and <strong>The</strong><br />
Wash, Snoop has learned much<br />
about life in front of <strong>the</strong> camera,<br />
behind <strong>the</strong> scenes and in <strong>the</strong><br />
seats. He lists a few of those<br />
hard-earned lessons below:<br />
ALWAYS BE ON<br />
“Having cameras in your face all<br />
<strong>the</strong> time is hard because sometimes,<br />
you just want <strong>to</strong> be left<br />
alone — but that’s why you always<br />
have <strong>to</strong> be on. You never know<br />
when you’re going <strong>to</strong> capture that<br />
moment. <strong>The</strong>n, when you watch it<br />
back at <strong>the</strong> end of <strong>the</strong> day and you<br />
see that moment, you’re glad <strong>the</strong><br />
cameras were <strong>the</strong>re.”<br />
HIRE A LOCAL DRIVER<br />
“<strong>The</strong> roads in Jamaica — one<br />
false move and you could fall<br />
3,000 feet and no one would ever<br />
find you. We had <strong>to</strong> have Evel<br />
Knievel driving us because it was<br />
some tricky moves. … I had my<br />
camera guy <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> side of me and<br />
it was a great experience.”<br />
STEER THE ROLE, DON’T LET IT<br />
STEER YOU<br />
“One of <strong>the</strong> hardest things I<br />
learned was that it’s better <strong>to</strong><br />
control your own character than<br />
be characterized. With <strong>the</strong> first<br />
couple of movies I got, I didn’t<br />
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Demarest<br />
Backs A<br />
Wanted Man<br />
By Pamela McClin<strong>to</strong>ck<br />
NEW FINANCING AND<br />
production venture<br />
Demarest Films has<br />
come aboard <strong>to</strong> co-finance<br />
and co-produce An<strong>to</strong>n Corbijn’s<br />
espionage saga A Most<br />
Wanted Man, starring Philip<br />
Seymour Hoffman, Rachel<br />
McAdams, Willem Dafoe and<br />
Robin Wright.<br />
Demarest was launched<br />
in April by Sam Englebardt,<br />
Michael Lambert and William<br />
D. Johnson. <strong>The</strong> company’s<br />
slate also includes<br />
Neil Jordan’s mo<strong>the</strong>rdaughter<br />
vampire film Byzantium,<br />
which is premiering<br />
here at Toron<strong>to</strong>. Byzantium<br />
stars Saoirse Ronan and<br />
Gemma Arter<strong>to</strong>n.<br />
A Most Wanted Man is based<br />
on John le Carre’s acclaimed<br />
novel. Screenwriter Andrew<br />
Bovell adapted it for <strong>the</strong><br />
big screen.<br />
<strong>The</strong> spy thriller is set<br />
in present-day Hamburg,<br />
Germany, where a mysterious<br />
half-Chechen, half-Russian<br />
man, brutally scarred from<br />
<strong>to</strong>rture, surfaces in <strong>the</strong> city’s<br />
Islamic community, on <strong>the</strong><br />
run and desperate for help.<br />
He seeks <strong>to</strong> recover his late<br />
Russian fa<strong>the</strong>r’s fortune and<br />
soon connects with a conflicted<br />
British private banker<br />
and a young female lawyer<br />
fiercely determined <strong>to</strong><br />
protect <strong>the</strong> rights of persecuted<br />
emigres.<br />
“A Most Wanted Man is <strong>the</strong><br />
perfect addition <strong>to</strong> Demarest’s<br />
slate of smart, commercially<br />
viable projects,” said Englebardt.<br />
“Andrew Bovell did a<br />
magnificent job adapting one<br />
of Le Carré’s most compelling<br />
and relevant novels. An<strong>to</strong>n<br />
Corbijn is at <strong>the</strong> <strong>to</strong>p of his<br />
game and <strong>the</strong> cast is stellar.”<br />
FilmNation Entertainment<br />
is handling domestic and<br />
international sales. THR<br />
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Quaid and Zac Efron, a Sony<br />
Pictures Classics release; and<br />
Disconnect, an ensemble drama<br />
featuring Jason Bateman, Hope<br />
Davis andFrank Grillo.<br />
Exclusive Media co-chairmen<br />
Nigel Sinclair and Guy East<br />
said Exclusive Releasing plans<br />
<strong>to</strong> distribute three or four wide<br />
releases a year, both in-house<br />
produced films as well as thirdparty<br />
titles. Veteran marketer<br />
Mike Vollman is consulting for<br />
<strong>the</strong> new division.<br />
Exclusive Media’s move in<strong>to</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> crowded domestic distribution<br />
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add anything <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> character,<br />
but as I started doing more films<br />
and making my own, I learned<br />
how <strong>to</strong> add my thing and <strong>to</strong> give<br />
<strong>the</strong> direc<strong>to</strong>r and writer what<br />
<strong>the</strong>y had seen in me. I felt closer<br />
<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> characters that <strong>the</strong>y tried<br />
<strong>to</strong> create of me.”<br />
DON’T ASK STONERS TO LEAVE<br />
THE HOUSE<br />
“With Mac and Devin Go <strong>to</strong> High<br />
School, I thought it was a waste<br />
of time <strong>to</strong> go <strong>the</strong>atrical with it.<br />
That movie was <strong>to</strong> be enjoyed in<br />
<strong>the</strong> convenience of your home<br />
and your couch, hanging out<br />
with your homies, chilling, eating<br />
some snacks, able <strong>to</strong> turn it<br />
up and rewind some parts — it’s<br />
a s<strong>to</strong>ner flick. To stand in line,<br />
get popcorn and wait for all<br />
those movie trailers… First of<br />
all, we might get pulled over on<br />
<strong>the</strong> way <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> mo<strong>the</strong>rf—ing <strong>the</strong>ater.<br />
We could be dealing with a<br />
trap or a road block or checkpoint,<br />
it’s <strong>to</strong>o much. It’s like, put<br />
that shit in right now, smoke<br />
something and enjoy it. That’s<br />
why <strong>the</strong> DVD was created.”<br />
HAVE A PROPER FEST PARTY<br />
“I like <strong>to</strong> work, and I love <strong>to</strong><br />
have fun ... so expect superstars,<br />
celebrities, red wine,<br />
vegetables and vegetation at<br />
Great Hall Friday night.”<br />
THR<br />
waters follows <strong>the</strong> box-office success<br />
of <strong>The</strong> Woman in Black, which<br />
CBS Films distributed in <strong>the</strong> U.S.<br />
on behalf of Exclusive. <strong>The</strong> supernatural<br />
horror title, starring Daniel<br />
Radcliffe, was a surprise hit, earning<br />
more than $54 million in <strong>the</strong><br />
U.S. and $128 million worldwide.<br />
Having its own domestic<br />
distribution operation gives<br />
Exclusive Media more flexibility<br />
— and control.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> launch of Exclusive<br />
Releasing is <strong>the</strong> exciting and logical<br />
next step for Exclusive Media<br />
<strong>to</strong> be involved in all aspects of<br />
<strong>the</strong> filmmaking and distribution<br />
of our movies from development<br />
through production and in<strong>to</strong><br />
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has become a force in <strong>the</strong> horror<br />
genre, and we are confident that<br />
he is going <strong>to</strong> deliver ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />
chilling, elevated film that audiences<br />
will love.”<br />
Roth and Woodrow will<br />
produce with Worldview COO<br />
Molly Conners alongside Jacob<br />
Jaffke and Peter Phok. Executive<br />
producers include West,<br />
Eric Newman and Worldview<br />
execs Maria Ces<strong>to</strong>ne, Sarah<br />
Johnson Redlich and Hoyt<br />
David Morgan.<br />
Sacrament marks Worldview’s<br />
second collaboration with Roth.<br />
<strong>The</strong> company said in Cannes<br />
that it will be backing <strong>The</strong><br />
Green Inferno, Roth’s return <strong>to</strong><br />
6<br />
<strong>the</strong>aters,” East and Sinclair said in<br />
a statement. “We are thrilled that<br />
we have Scott and Matt joining us<br />
<strong>to</strong> put this division <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r.”<br />
Exclusive Releasing also will<br />
acquire films for VOD and digital<br />
platforms as well as develop and<br />
buy alternative content, including<br />
concert films and music<br />
documentaries. Insiders say<br />
Open Road might do some of <strong>the</strong><br />
booking for <strong>the</strong> new operation.<br />
Upcoming films on Exclusive<br />
Media’s slate include Can a<br />
Song Save Your Life? with Keira<br />
Knightley, and Rush, Ron Howard’s<br />
Formula 1 film.<br />
PAMELA MCCLINTOCK CONTRIBUTED<br />
TO THIS REPORT.<br />
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feature for Skydance Productions. Previously, <strong>the</strong>y penned <strong>the</strong> Seth<br />
Rogen-voiced feature Boo U for DreamWorks Animation and <strong>the</strong><br />
Mattel <strong>to</strong>y-inspired feature Magic 8 Ball for Paramount. Mann and<br />
Gunn are repped by WME and Mosaic.<br />
Kamala is in development on <strong>the</strong> screen adaptations of Jeff<br />
Guinn’s Go Down Toge<strong>the</strong>r: <strong>The</strong> True, Un<strong>to</strong>ld S<strong>to</strong>ry of Bonnie and Clyde<br />
and Nancy Golds<strong>to</strong>ne’s <strong>The</strong> Maid and <strong>The</strong> Queen: <strong>The</strong> Secret His<strong>to</strong>ry of<br />
Joan of Arc with Furst Films.<br />
FilmNation has a major presence at <strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> International<br />
Film Festival this year, handling international sales on Rian Johnson’s<br />
Looper — which opens <strong>the</strong> festival Sept. 6 — as well as several<br />
o<strong>the</strong>r titles, including Terrence Malick’s To <strong>The</strong> Wonder, starring<br />
Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem,<br />
and Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children. THR<br />
directing, which is set <strong>to</strong> begin<br />
shooting in <strong>the</strong> fall in Chile<br />
and Peru.<br />
Roth’s latest thriller, Aftershock,<br />
premieres this week in<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong>, bowing in <strong>the</strong> festival’s<br />
Midnight Madness section.<br />
Worldview quickly is becoming<br />
one of <strong>the</strong> most buzzworthy<br />
new finance/production outfits.<br />
<strong>The</strong> group recently wrapped<br />
production on A<strong>to</strong>m Egoyan’s<br />
West Memphis Three biopic;<br />
Devil’s Knot, starring Colin Firth<br />
and Reese Wi<strong>the</strong>rspoon; and<br />
Guillaume Canet’s crime thriller<br />
Blood Ties, featuring Clive Owen<br />
and Marion Cotillard.<br />
Worldview is in postproduction<br />
on James Gray’s untitled period<br />
drama starring Cotillard, Joaquin<br />
Phoenix and Jeremy Renner. THR<br />
Out in <strong>the</strong> Dark<br />
Glass Grabs<br />
Out in<br />
<strong>the</strong> Dark<br />
By Scott Roxborough<br />
OUT IN THE DARK, A GAY<br />
love s<strong>to</strong>ry set amid <strong>the</strong><br />
political turmoil of <strong>the</strong><br />
Israeli-Palestinian conflict,<br />
will be coming <strong>to</strong> North<br />
American screens courtesy of<br />
Breaking Glass Pictures. <strong>The</strong><br />
company has picked up rights<br />
<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> feature from m-appeal<br />
ahead of <strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> International<br />
Film Festival, where<br />
Out in <strong>the</strong> Dark will have its<br />
world premiere.<br />
<strong>The</strong> drama, <strong>the</strong> direc<strong>to</strong>rial<br />
debut of American-Israeli filmmaker<br />
Michael Mayer, follows<br />
an Israeli lawyer who falls in<br />
love with a Palestinian student.<br />
“This is a love s<strong>to</strong>ry which<br />
becomes complicated by<br />
borders,” said Breaking Glass<br />
CEO Richard Wolff. “<strong>The</strong><br />
adage ‘love knows no borders’<br />
is unfortunately false in <strong>to</strong>day’s<br />
often in<strong>to</strong>lerant society when<br />
two countries are at odds.”<br />
Breaking Glass plans <strong>to</strong><br />
bow Out in <strong>the</strong> Dark in North<br />
America in August or September<br />
2013. Wolff said he hopes<br />
<strong>the</strong> film and its subject matter<br />
will “raise awareness.”<br />
M-appeal also has closed<br />
deals for <strong>the</strong> film with Benelux<br />
(ABC Distribution),<br />
Germany (Pro-Fun Media)<br />
and France (OutPlay). Out in<br />
<strong>the</strong> Dark premieres Sept. 7 in<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong>’s Discovery Section.<br />
<strong>The</strong> German sales group<br />
has two o<strong>the</strong>r TIFF titles on its<br />
slate: <strong>the</strong> politically incorrect<br />
Dutch comedy <strong>The</strong> Deflowering<br />
of Eva van End and Julio Hernandez<br />
Cordon’s drama Polvo,<br />
both of which screen in <strong>the</strong><br />
World Cinema Section. THR<br />
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TORONTO OFFICE:<br />
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Hotel Phone: (416) 343-1234<br />
E-mail: market@fortissimo.nl<br />
ATTENDING EXECUTIVES:<br />
Michael J. Werner<br />
Nicole Mackey<br />
Winnie Lau<br />
Courtney Noble<br />
SHIP OF THESEUS<br />
by ANAND GANDHI<br />
India, 2012, 139’, Hindi, Drama<br />
CITY TO CITY: Opening Film<br />
Thu, Sep 6 9.30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 (World Premiere)<br />
Fri, Sep 7 2.30 pm Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 7 (Public)<br />
Sat, Sep 8 1.15 pm Scotiabank <strong>The</strong>atre 10 (P&I)<br />
Tue, Sep 11 9.15 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 5 (P&I)<br />
Sun, Sep 16 12.00 pm Scotiabank <strong>The</strong>atre 4 (Public)<br />
BEIJING FLICKERS<br />
by ZHANG YUAN<br />
China, 2012, 96’, Mandarin, Drama<br />
VANGUARD<br />
Sun, Sep 9 11.15 am Scotiabank <strong>The</strong>atre 9 (P&I)<br />
Mon, Sep 10 9.00 pm <strong>The</strong> Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (World Premiere)<br />
Wed, Sep 12 9.30 am Scotiabank <strong>The</strong>atre 9 (P&I)<br />
Wed, Sep 12 2.45 pm Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas7 (Public)<br />
Sun, Sep 16 9.30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 4 (P & I)<br />
WHAT MAISIE KNEW<br />
by SCOTT MCGEHEE and DAVID SIEGEL<br />
USA, 2012, 95’, English, Drama<br />
Starring Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgård, Steve Coogan, Onata Aprile,<br />
Joanna Vanderham<br />
GALA<br />
Fri, Sep 7 9:30pm Roy Thomson Hall (World Premiere)<br />
Sat, Sep 8 8.45 am Scotiabank <strong>The</strong>atre 1 (P & I)<br />
Sat, Sep 8 12.45 pm TIFFBell Lightbox 1 (Public)<br />
Tue, Sep 11 12.00 pm Scotiabank <strong>The</strong>atre 1 (P & I)<br />
Sun, Sep 16 3.30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1(Public)<br />
BWAKAW<br />
by JUN ROBLES LANA<br />
Philippines, 2012, 110’, Tagalog, Drama/Comedy<br />
CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA<br />
Sun, Sep 9 9.00 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 5 (P & I)<br />
Mon, Sep 10 5.45 pm Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 5 (International Premiere)<br />
Wed, Sep 12 2.30 pm Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 4 (Public)<br />
Sat, Sep 15 6.00 pm Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 5 (Public)<br />
MISS LOVELY (New International Version]<br />
by ASHIM AHLUWALIA<br />
India, 2012, Hindi, Drama<br />
CITY TO CITY<br />
Mon, Sep 10 12.00 pm Scotiabank <strong>The</strong>atre 10 (P & I)<br />
Tue, Sep 11 9.15 pm Scotiabank <strong>The</strong>atre 3 (North American Premiere)<br />
Thu, Sep 13 6.00 pm Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 6 (Public)<br />
Sat, Sep 15 9.00 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 4 (Public)<br />
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UPCOMING FILMS<br />
TOUCH OF THE LIGHT<br />
by CHANG Jung-Chi<br />
Taiwan, 2012, Mandarin<br />
Presented by: Wong Kar Wai<br />
Status: Post Production<br />
WHITE FROG<br />
by QUENTIN LEE<br />
USA, English, Coming of Age/Drama<br />
Cast: Booboo Stewart, Joan Chen, BD Wong<br />
Status: Completed<br />
CAMERA<br />
by JAMES LEONG<br />
Singapore, Suspense/Thriller<br />
Status: Post Production<br />
CAMIEL BORGMAN<br />
by ALEX VAN WARMERDAM<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands / Belgium / Denmark, Dutch,<br />
Drama<br />
Status: In Production<br />
SIMON KILLER<br />
by ANTONIO CAMPOS<br />
USA, 2012, English, Psychological Drama<br />
Cast: Brady Corbet, Mati Diop<br />
Status: Completed<br />
AN END TO KILLING<br />
by WANG PING<br />
China, 2012, Mandarin, Drama<br />
Status: Completed<br />
DJINN<br />
by TOBE HOOPER<br />
UAE, English/Arabic, Supernatural Horror Thriller<br />
Status: Post Production<br />
SUNSET SONG<br />
by TERENCE DAVIES<br />
UK, English<br />
Cast: Peter Mullan (WAR HORSE), Agyness Deyn<br />
Status: Pre-production<br />
FULL CIRCLE<br />
by ZHANG YANG<br />
China, 2012, Mandarin, Comedy/Drama<br />
Status: Completed<br />
REDEMPTION STREET<br />
by MIROSLAV TERZIĆ<br />
Serbia, 2012, 97’, Serbian, Thriller<br />
Status: Completed<br />
MONSOON SHOOTOUT<br />
by AMIT KUMAR<br />
India, Hindi, Action/Thriller<br />
Status: Post Production<br />
Direc<strong>to</strong>r: Terence Davies Direc<strong>to</strong>r: John Cameron Mitchell<br />
HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES<br />
by JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL<br />
USA, English, Romance/Sci-Fi/Music<br />
Status: In Development<br />
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ABOUT TOWN<br />
RAMBLING REPORTER<br />
BRADLEY COOPER: SCARFACE<br />
<strong>The</strong> unofficial face of this year’s fest<br />
is Bradley Cooper, with two of his<br />
films — <strong>The</strong> Place Beyond <strong>the</strong> Pines<br />
and Silver Linings Playbook — world<br />
premiering back-<strong>to</strong>-back on Sept.<br />
7 and 8. But those who’ve been up<br />
close and personal with People’s<br />
former Sexiest Man Alive, especially<br />
prior <strong>to</strong> time spent in <strong>the</strong> makeup<br />
chair, know that his face is not without<br />
imperfection. <strong>The</strong>re’s a reason<br />
that David Lynch’s <strong>The</strong> Elephant Man<br />
inspired him <strong>to</strong> get in<strong>to</strong> acting in <strong>the</strong><br />
first place. (He also performed <strong>the</strong><br />
title role in a stage adaptation at <strong>the</strong><br />
Williams<strong>to</strong>wn Festival in Massachusetts<br />
this summer, and plans are in<br />
<strong>the</strong> works for him <strong>to</strong> bring <strong>the</strong> play <strong>to</strong><br />
Broadway next fall for a limited run.)<br />
Look closely, or even not so closely,<br />
at <strong>the</strong> big-screen heartthrob and<br />
Three Parties Not <strong>to</strong> Miss<br />
TWC’S THE MASTER AFTERPARTY Friday, Sept. 7<br />
No one knows how <strong>to</strong> throw a party quite like Harvey<br />
Weinstein. And at this year’s fest, <strong>The</strong> Weinstein<br />
Co. is <strong>to</strong>uting its anticipated Paul Thomas Anderson<br />
drama <strong>The</strong> Master, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman,<br />
Amy Adams and Joaquin Phoenix. TWC will take<br />
over Toron<strong>to</strong>’s members-only SoHo House pop-up<br />
club 192 Adelaide Street West for <strong>the</strong> film’s obliga<strong>to</strong>ry<br />
TIFF debut afterparty. <strong>The</strong> company regularly<br />
rents out <strong>the</strong> club’s West <strong>Hollywood</strong> property for<br />
both private Golden Globe and Oscar parties).<br />
FLASH Monday, Sept. 10<br />
For those veteran TIFF-goers in <strong>the</strong> know, <strong>the</strong> most<br />
no<strong>to</strong>rious party of <strong>the</strong> festival is Sunday’s Ladies<br />
Night at Reming<strong>to</strong>ns, a gay cabaret near Ryerson<br />
University that maintains strict regulations<br />
THR cover boy<br />
Cooper has back-<strong>to</strong>-<br />
back screenings in<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong> this year.<br />
you’ll see that Cooper’s countenance<br />
is covered with his fair share of flaws.<br />
“I have so many scars on my face,” he<br />
tells THR (Cooper graces this week’s<br />
THR cover for <strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> Issue).<br />
Some were accumulated accidentally<br />
— and at least one on purpose.<br />
“It’s huge,” he says of one<br />
particular scar on his forehead.<br />
“It goes all <strong>the</strong> way<br />
<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> back [of my scalp].<br />
A huge glass lamp fell on<br />
my face when I was 15. I<br />
lived in an old barn, and<br />
my parents bought this<br />
glass lampshade —<br />
like a lawyer’s lamp.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y hung it on <strong>the</strong><br />
wall. It was Super<br />
Bowl Sunday, I<br />
heard my grandparents<br />
come in, and<br />
I threw <strong>the</strong> covers<br />
open. I watched<br />
10<br />
it fall. It crashed, and blood was<br />
squirting out. I couldn’t move part of<br />
my face for six months. It went right<br />
<strong>to</strong> my skull.”<br />
BOARDWALK EMPIRE’S<br />
TORONTO VETERANS<br />
At <strong>the</strong> third-season premiere of HBO’s<br />
Boardwalk Empire in New York City,<br />
stars reminisced about <strong>the</strong>ir time at<br />
what many call <strong>the</strong> industry’s most<br />
laid-back film festival. Series star<br />
Gretchen Mol, who made her TIFF<br />
debut <strong>to</strong> rave reviews in 2005’s <strong>The</strong><br />
No<strong>to</strong>rious Bettie Page, said her best<br />
memory of <strong>the</strong> fest was <strong>the</strong> supportive<br />
<strong>the</strong>atergoers. “I just loved<br />
<strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> audience,” she tells THR.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y were real movie lovers.” Shea<br />
Whigham, who plays Boardwalk’s<br />
resident corrupt cop, has become<br />
a Toron<strong>to</strong> regular during <strong>the</strong> past<br />
decade (“I love this festival,” he said)<br />
and currently has a major feature in<br />
contention, David O’Russell’s Silver<br />
Linings Playbook (alongside<br />
Cooper and Robert De Niro).<br />
Kelly Macdonald made her<br />
TIFF debut back in 1998 with<br />
Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth. “I<br />
was <strong>the</strong>re with my good friend<br />
Emily Mortimer,” Macdonald<br />
says of her Elizabeth costar<br />
and fellow HBO series<br />
regular (Mortimer stars on<br />
Aaron Sorkin’s <strong>The</strong> Newsroom).<br />
“We had so much<br />
fun hanging out, but I can<br />
barely remember what<br />
we did.” Perhaps <strong>to</strong>o<br />
Mol<br />
much fun? THR<br />
regarding female clubgoers. But this year THR<br />
hears <strong>the</strong> festivities are moving <strong>to</strong> Mondays at<br />
Flash on Church Street, ano<strong>the</strong>r racy dive. After<br />
a busy TIFF opening weekend, publicists, agents<br />
and occasionally talent (Johnny Knoxville has been<br />
known <strong>to</strong> attend) let <strong>the</strong>ir hair down in a decidedly<br />
unglamourous setting. Reming<strong>to</strong>ns, however,<br />
is still rolling out <strong>the</strong> red carpet — <strong>the</strong> club is<br />
generously offering a $5 cover-charge discount for<br />
patrons sporting festival credentials.<br />
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER’S TIFF BASH<br />
5-8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9<br />
THR news direc<strong>to</strong>r Mat<strong>the</strong>w Belloni and staff<br />
are hosting an exclusive cocktail party at <strong>the</strong><br />
Thompson Hotel’s Roof<strong>to</strong>p Bar (complete with<br />
music by Mick Boogie) and VIP guests including<br />
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Reitman, Keira Knightley<br />
and Emile Hirsch.<br />
Moose Point Estate on Lake Muskoka<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong>’s<br />
Lakeside Getaways<br />
By Bryan Dearsley<br />
LOCATED 100 MILES NORTH OF<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong>, Muskoka is a landscape<br />
of pristine lakes, rugged<br />
islands and prized fishing and<br />
hunting that first enticed New YorK<br />
and Pittsburgh’s wealthy in <strong>the</strong> late<br />
1800s. <strong>The</strong>se days, <strong>the</strong> region has<br />
become a summer and even postfestival<br />
draw for celebrities.<br />
Summer saw Hugh Grant<br />
golfing on Bigwin Island, a resort<br />
famous for once having hosted<br />
Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Ernest<br />
Hemingway and H.G. Wells.<br />
Tom Hanks spent yet ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />
summer scooting around Lake<br />
Muskoka by boat while renting a<br />
cottage complex, where he reportedly<br />
hosted Steven Spielberg.<br />
O<strong>the</strong>r names who own cottages<br />
or have recently visited: Martin<br />
Short, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell,<br />
Kenny G, Cindy Crawford<br />
and Bill Murray. And real<strong>to</strong>rs are<br />
abuzz about <strong>the</strong> prospect of Leonardo<br />
DiCaprio and Tom Cruise<br />
being in <strong>the</strong> market for cottages of<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir own. Although “you can’t call<br />
<strong>the</strong>m cottages,” says Lionsgate<br />
Entertainment co-chair Harald<br />
Ludwig, “more like estates with<br />
fabulous boat houses.”<br />
And if <strong>the</strong> stars need privacy,<br />
it can be obtained for upward of<br />
$1 million by purchasing lushly<br />
treed lots on Lake Muskoka’s<br />
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COOPER: MEL BARLOW
Wavelengths<br />
THE FIFTH SEASON<br />
by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth<br />
NL Co-prod: Molenwiek Film<br />
Sales: Films Boutique<br />
eye international<br />
your Dutch film connection<br />
• 09/07, 14:45, TIFF Bell Lightbox 5 (press & industry)<br />
• 09/12, 19:15, TIFF Bell Lightbox 4<br />
• 09/13, 14:00, Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 10<br />
• 09/14, 09:45, TIFF Bell Lightbox 5 (press & industry)<br />
• 09/16, 14:30, Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 10<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
IN THE FOG<br />
by Sergei Loznitsa<br />
NL Co-prod: Lemming Film<br />
Sales: <strong>The</strong> Match Fac<strong>to</strong>ry<br />
• 09/12, 21:30, Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 3<br />
• 09/14, 09:15, Cinema 2<br />
• 09/16, 21:30, Jackman Hall (AGO)<br />
Wavelengths<br />
POST TENEBRAS LUX<br />
by Carlos Reygadas<br />
NL Co-prod: Topkapi Films<br />
Sales: NDM<br />
• 09/07, 11:15, Scotiabank 8 (press & industry)<br />
• 09/12, 21:45, TIFF Bell Lightbox 1<br />
• 09/13, 13:15, TIFF Bell Lightbox 3<br />
• 09/16, 18:00, Scotiabank 3<br />
Future Projections<br />
SPRINGTIME<br />
by Jeroen Eisinga<br />
Prod/sales: Jeroen Eisinga<br />
• 08/24 – 09/16, MOCCA, 952 Queen Street West<br />
Wavelengths<br />
VIEW FROM THE ACROPOLIS<br />
by Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan<br />
Prod: Van Brummelen en De Haan<br />
Sales: Motive Gallery<br />
• 09/10,19:00, Jackman Hall (AGO)<br />
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DIRECTOR Q&A<br />
Rian Johnson<br />
<strong>The</strong> man behind TIFF opener Looper talks about<br />
breaking with tradition, <strong>the</strong> challenges of time travel<br />
and <strong>the</strong> sad state of <strong>the</strong> blockbuster By Borys Kit<br />
RIAN JOHNSON BURST ON<br />
<strong>the</strong> movie scene with<br />
2005’s Brick, a stylized<br />
film noir set in high school that<br />
starred a young Joseph Gordon-<br />
Levitt, who was eager <strong>to</strong> break<br />
out of his Third Rock From <strong>the</strong><br />
Sun shadow. USC grad Johnson,<br />
38, made his first TIFF appearance<br />
in 2008 with <strong>the</strong> quirky <strong>The</strong><br />
Bro<strong>the</strong>rs Bloom, and now its his<br />
$30 million-budgeted Looper is<br />
generating buzz with <strong>the</strong> festival<br />
and geek crowds alike, ahead of<br />
its Sept. 28 release by TriStar/<br />
FilmDistrict. <strong>The</strong> first non-Canadian<br />
narrative film <strong>to</strong> open TIFF,<br />
Looper reteams <strong>the</strong> direc<strong>to</strong>r with<br />
Gordon-Levitt, who has since<br />
become one of <strong>Hollywood</strong>’s most<br />
promising ac<strong>to</strong>rs.<br />
It was a bit controversial for TIFF<br />
<strong>to</strong> break with tradition and choose<br />
your non-Canadian film <strong>to</strong> open<br />
<strong>the</strong> festival. Were you aware of <strong>the</strong><br />
potential backlash?<br />
No, I wasn’t really privy <strong>to</strong> all of<br />
that. I caught up on <strong>the</strong> controversy<br />
after <strong>the</strong> announcement<br />
was made. I heard [TIFF artistic<br />
direc<strong>to</strong>r] Cameron Bailey speak<br />
<strong>to</strong> it, and it sounds like <strong>the</strong>y were<br />
<strong>read</strong>y for <strong>the</strong> pushback, and <strong>the</strong>y<br />
had <strong>the</strong>ir reasons for it. It was <strong>the</strong><br />
sort of thing where when <strong>the</strong>y<br />
offered it <strong>to</strong> us, it was a bit of a<br />
surprise but a really pleasant one.<br />
How different was it for you<br />
<strong>to</strong> tackle a time-travel sci-fi<br />
action movie compared with your<br />
previous films?<br />
In some ways, I guess it doesn’t feel<br />
<strong>to</strong>o different for me because<br />
I have a group of friends that I have<br />
stayed consistent with, that I’ve<br />
made all three movies with. And<br />
although this was a bigger scale<br />
<strong>the</strong>n Bro<strong>the</strong>rs Bloom, it was kind of<br />
made <strong>the</strong> same way with [Looper<br />
production company] Endgame<br />
Entertainment: I had my cinema<strong>to</strong>grapher,<br />
who has been my<br />
best friend since film school; my<br />
cousin Nathan did <strong>the</strong> music for<br />
it — we’ve been working <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r<br />
since we were 10 years old — and<br />
[Gordon-Levitt], of course, who<br />
I’ve known since Brick. It’s been<br />
like <strong>the</strong> family coming <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r <strong>to</strong><br />
make ano<strong>the</strong>r movie. It didn’t feel<br />
like a significantly different thing<br />
in terms of <strong>the</strong> process of it. <strong>The</strong><br />
film itself, it’s definitely a different<br />
genre <strong>the</strong>n ei<strong>the</strong>r Brick or Bloom,<br />
but within that I think it’s trying<br />
<strong>to</strong> do <strong>the</strong> same thing: <strong>to</strong> connect <strong>to</strong><br />
12<br />
something that I care about.<br />
What are some of <strong>the</strong> biggest challenges<br />
of time-travel movies?<br />
Figuring out how much <strong>to</strong> explain,<br />
figuring how <strong>to</strong> keep it simple.<br />
With this film especially, because<br />
even though it’s a time-travel<br />
movie, <strong>the</strong> pleasure of it doesn’t<br />
come from <strong>the</strong> mass of time<br />
travel. It’s not a film like Primer (a<br />
2004 cult movie that deals in <strong>the</strong><br />
complexities of time travel), for<br />
instance, where <strong>the</strong> big part of <strong>the</strong><br />
enjoyment is kind of working out<br />
all <strong>the</strong> intricacies of it. For Looper I<br />
very much wanted it <strong>to</strong> be a more<br />
character-based movie that is more<br />
about how <strong>the</strong>se characters dealt<br />
with <strong>the</strong> situation time travel has<br />
brought about. So <strong>the</strong> biggest challenge<br />
was figuring out how <strong>to</strong> not<br />
spend <strong>the</strong> whole movie explaining<br />
<strong>the</strong> rules and figure out how <strong>to</strong><br />
put it out <strong>the</strong>re in a way that made<br />
sense on some intuitive level for <strong>the</strong><br />
audience; <strong>the</strong>n get past it and deal<br />
with <strong>the</strong> real meat of <strong>the</strong> s<strong>to</strong>ry.<br />
Looper feels like it could have been<br />
a summer blockbuster a decade<br />
ago, but <strong>the</strong>se days it’s independently<br />
financed. I don’t know about<br />
you, but I found this summer’s<br />
movies kind of lackluster.<br />
Well, <strong>the</strong>re’s always enjoyable<br />
stuff, and I don’t want <strong>to</strong> slag<br />
off a big group of movies, but I<br />
do feel like just in general, with<br />
big films recently, it is increasingly<br />
difficult <strong>to</strong> sit down in a<br />
<strong>the</strong>ater and be surprised. It feels<br />
increasingly like movies are<br />
being developed as properties —<br />
<strong>the</strong> same way you would develop<br />
a fast-food franchise. Those<br />
movies can be made <strong>to</strong> be really<br />
fun and really creative, but one<br />
thing that I find myself seeking<br />
out more and more is something<br />
where I sit down and I’m not<br />
sure what <strong>to</strong> expect. That’s what<br />
Vital Stats<br />
Nationality American<br />
Born Dec. 17, 1973<br />
Film in Toron<strong>to</strong> Looper<br />
(Opening-night film)<br />
Filmography<br />
Brick (2005),<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bro<strong>the</strong>rs Bloom (2008)<br />
Notable Awards Sundance Special<br />
Jury Prize (dramatic) for Brick<br />
we were aspiring <strong>to</strong> with Looper,<br />
mixing actual surprise with<br />
some of <strong>the</strong> summer movie elements<br />
of <strong>the</strong> action.<br />
A few years ago when Inception<br />
came out, everyone was saying,<br />
“Wow, this is going <strong>to</strong> bring back<br />
originality <strong>to</strong> <strong>Hollywood</strong>!” But it<br />
hasn’t, has it?<br />
It feels dramatic <strong>to</strong> frame it like<br />
that. I think <strong>the</strong> truth is just that<br />
good movies get made and a lot of<br />
less interesting movies get made,<br />
and that has always been happening.<br />
<strong>The</strong> gap between <strong>the</strong>m can be<br />
long or it can be short, but I think<br />
it matters that <strong>the</strong>re are diamonds<br />
in <strong>the</strong> rough. I’m a huge Inception<br />
fan, but viewing it as a failed<br />
movement would be <strong>the</strong> wrong<br />
way of looking at it. For me, as a<br />
moviegoer, as long as a movie like<br />
that can bust through every now<br />
and <strong>the</strong>n, as long as every year we<br />
get at least one of those — God, I’ll<br />
even settle for every two years if we<br />
get an Inception — I’m thrilled.<br />
Have you ever been approached <strong>to</strong><br />
direct a big studio movie?<br />
I’ve had conversations about it,<br />
but <strong>the</strong>y’ve never gotten very far,<br />
and I don’t know how seriously<br />
I’ve ever been in <strong>the</strong> running for<br />
anything. On one level, it’s always<br />
tempting, especially as a filmmaker<br />
just starting out careerwise.<br />
<strong>The</strong> notion of jumping on <strong>to</strong><br />
something big like that and having<br />
those <strong>to</strong>ys <strong>to</strong> play with and incredibly<br />
talented people involved with<br />
it and engaging a big audience —<br />
it’s great. I think great movies can<br />
be made in that mode. But for me<br />
specifically, I have figured out that<br />
at least for now, what really gets<br />
me excited is creating something<br />
from <strong>the</strong> ground up. It’s even less<br />
about it being original per se, it’s<br />
more about <strong>the</strong> fact that it’s mine.<br />
It’s more about that fact that I<br />
start with just a seed of an idea<br />
and take it all <strong>the</strong> way through <strong>to</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> end. I feel like I have this window<br />
right now where my producer<br />
Ram Bergman and I are actually<br />
able <strong>to</strong> get our own scripts made.<br />
However many of <strong>the</strong>se we can get<br />
through, I want <strong>to</strong> take advantage<br />
of this window while it’s still here<br />
and get my own s<strong>to</strong>ries <strong>to</strong>ld. THR<br />
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Contemporary<br />
World Cinema<br />
JACKIE<br />
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by An<strong>to</strong>inette Beumer<br />
Prod: Eyeworks Film & TV Drama<br />
• Fri September 7, 10:00, Scotiabank 7 (press & industry)<br />
• Sat September 8, 15:15, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7<br />
• Mon September 10, 21:00, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2<br />
• Sat September 15, 12:00, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7<br />
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EXECUTIVE SUITE<br />
UTA’s dynamic duo discuss thriving in a man’s world, <strong>the</strong>ir TIFF strategy<br />
and <strong>the</strong> secret behind <strong>the</strong>ir succesful collaboration By Tatiana Siegel<br />
SPEND ENOUGH TIME ON THE FESTIVAL<br />
circuit, and one can’t help but notice<br />
something missing. No, it’s not <strong>the</strong><br />
absence of no-fee ATMs or even <strong>the</strong> lack of<br />
decent takeout. What’s striking is <strong>the</strong> dearth<br />
of female sales agents at <strong>the</strong> negotiating<br />
table. Still, UTA’s independent film group<br />
is bucking <strong>the</strong> trend in a big way. With its<br />
dynamic female duo of Rena Ronson and<br />
Bec Smith hammering out buzz-worthy deals<br />
for such recent films as Salmon Fishing in <strong>the</strong><br />
Yemen, Our Idiot Bro<strong>the</strong>r and Margin Call, <strong>the</strong><br />
agency is dispelling <strong>the</strong> notion that <strong>the</strong> indie<br />
sphere is a man’s world. In fact, UTA’s Rich<br />
Klubeck and David Flynn now find <strong>the</strong>mselves<br />
in <strong>the</strong> minority within <strong>the</strong> agency’s<br />
five-member independent film group thanks<br />
<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> promotion of Hailey Wierengo <strong>to</strong><br />
coordina<strong>to</strong>r. Ronson and Smith spoke with<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Hollywood</strong> <strong>Reporter</strong> about navigating <strong>the</strong><br />
so-called gender divide and <strong>the</strong>ir expectations<br />
heading in<strong>to</strong> TIFF.<br />
Why does <strong>the</strong> film packaging and finance business<br />
continue <strong>to</strong> be so male dominated?<br />
RR We actually don’t see it that way. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
are definitely more men in <strong>the</strong> independent<br />
business, but we don’t consider it male dominated.<br />
It’s not about <strong>the</strong>m dominating. It’s<br />
just more volume.<br />
So it’s a quality not quantity kind of thing?<br />
RR (Laughs) I can’t say that. I just don’t see<br />
things as male-female. I was raised in a family<br />
with a bro<strong>the</strong>r, and we were always equal. Bec<br />
and I do are jobs really well. <strong>The</strong>re’s just more<br />
men in this space than <strong>the</strong>re are women.<br />
So why do men seem <strong>to</strong> be more attracted <strong>to</strong><br />
this arena?<br />
RR I think it’s changing. I think it’s about<br />
opportunity. But <strong>the</strong>re’s always that question<br />
why. Why do we gravitate <strong>to</strong>ward what we do?<br />
BS I don’t think <strong>the</strong>re are less women in<br />
this space than any o<strong>the</strong>r space in <strong>the</strong> film<br />
business. It’s good that <strong>the</strong>re are women who<br />
have been ensconced in positions of power<br />
across <strong>the</strong> film industry, including in this<br />
part of <strong>the</strong> business. I would say generationally,<br />
some time ago, it was harder for women<br />
<strong>to</strong> imagine <strong>the</strong>mselves working in film. Now<br />
those barriers have come down, and <strong>the</strong>re are<br />
women doing it everywhere.<br />
How would you describe <strong>the</strong> dynamic between<br />
<strong>the</strong> two of you?<br />
RR Very collaborative. What’s great about<br />
our division is we all bring specific expertise<br />
<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> division. Whe<strong>the</strong>r it’s my experience<br />
in <strong>the</strong> foreign sales world or Bec’s in <strong>the</strong> film<br />
and producing world or Rich’s in legal, we all<br />
bring something from <strong>the</strong> outside world. For<br />
Bec and I, we’re constantly back and forth<br />
with each o<strong>the</strong>r in one of our offices.<br />
BS I definitely look <strong>to</strong> Rena for her experience<br />
and skill set. And she looks <strong>to</strong> me for<br />
certain things that I have a background<br />
in. And we also go <strong>to</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r members of <strong>the</strong><br />
group for <strong>the</strong>ir expertise. Rich used <strong>to</strong> run<br />
companies and is a producer. Flynn has a<br />
management background and specializes<br />
in representing direc<strong>to</strong>rs as well. But Rena<br />
is definitely a men<strong>to</strong>r <strong>to</strong> me. It’s fun having<br />
someone so close <strong>to</strong> hand <strong>the</strong>re that you can<br />
go <strong>to</strong> and ask questions of and who will take<br />
14<br />
Ronson, left, and<br />
Smith pho<strong>to</strong>graphed<br />
in Ronson’s office at<br />
UTA in Beverly Hills.<br />
CO-HEAD, AGENT, UTA INDEPENDENT FILM GROUP<br />
Rena Ronson and Bec Smith<br />
<strong>the</strong> time <strong>to</strong> make sure those questions are<br />
being answered.<br />
Going in<strong>to</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong>, what are your expectations?<br />
RR To sell all of our movies. 100% sell-through.<br />
We have a track record, and we haven’t broken<br />
it. We don’t expect <strong>to</strong> break it this time. We<br />
have an incredible lineup.<br />
BS We have everything this year, from films<br />
that started in <strong>the</strong> agency as a great script<br />
from a younger writer that we were able<br />
<strong>to</strong> attach a big star <strong>to</strong> like Kristen Wiig —<br />
which turned in<strong>to</strong> Imogene — <strong>to</strong> finished<br />
films that came <strong>to</strong> us via relationships. <strong>The</strong><br />
two types of films also nicely reflect <strong>the</strong> taste<br />
of <strong>the</strong> group.<br />
With a film like <strong>the</strong> upcoming Arthur Newman,<br />
with Colin Firth and Emily Blunt, you are<br />
co-repping with CAA. In this cutthroat agency<br />
world, how does that work?<br />
RR More now than ever before, when you<br />
have a greenlighting element at an agency,<br />
whe<strong>the</strong>r it’s <strong>the</strong> writer or direc<strong>to</strong>r or a big<br />
ac<strong>to</strong>r, it lends itself <strong>to</strong> a co-repping situation.<br />
In this case, we put <strong>the</strong> financing <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r. It<br />
was our writer, Becky Johns<strong>to</strong>n. We put one<br />
of our direc<strong>to</strong>rs on it, Dante Ariola, for his<br />
first feature film. He’s been looking for years<br />
for something <strong>to</strong> do. <strong>The</strong>y went <strong>to</strong> (Blunt<br />
and Firth) at CAA, but we’re <strong>the</strong> point<br />
agency. What we’ve learned over <strong>the</strong> years<br />
about co-representation is <strong>the</strong>re are ways <strong>to</strong><br />
do it effectively.<br />
BS If you’re putting a movie <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r and<br />
representing a direc<strong>to</strong>r, you’re going <strong>to</strong> be<br />
involved. If you’re bringing a green light<br />
element <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> cast, you’ll likely be involved.<br />
We try <strong>to</strong> be partnership-minded with <strong>the</strong><br />
o<strong>the</strong>r agency.<br />
Your job requires you <strong>to</strong> be on <strong>the</strong> road at<br />
festivals for so much of <strong>the</strong> year. How does that<br />
affect your personal lives?<br />
RR My daughter is now 13 and has grown up<br />
with this business. This is what she knows.<br />
She had <strong>to</strong> write an essay for school about<br />
her role model, and she wrote about me. She<br />
wrote about how much she respects how passionate<br />
I am about what I do. She sometimes<br />
asks, ‘Why do you have <strong>to</strong> go away so much?’<br />
And I say, ‘I love what I do.’<br />
BS As an Australian, travelling <strong>the</strong> world is<br />
in my DNA. <strong>The</strong> minute I joined <strong>the</strong> film<br />
industry, <strong>the</strong> international film festival circuit<br />
became part of my routine. That circuit is<br />
kind of its own beautiful family. You reconnect<br />
with <strong>the</strong>se people multiple times a<br />
year. In terms of my personal life back here,<br />
anybody who is going <strong>to</strong> want <strong>to</strong> be a friend of<br />
mine has <strong>to</strong> understand that travelling is part<br />
of my job and part of who I am. THR<br />
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– KATE MELVILLE (PICTURE DAY)<br />
– KAZIK RADWANSKI (TOWER)<br />
FIRST WE TAKE<br />
MANHATTAN<br />
CANADIAN FILMS<br />
IN THE U.S.<br />
– GEOFFREY GILMORE, TRIBECA ENTERPRISES<br />
– JOHN SLOSS, CINETIC MEDIA<br />
– RYAN WERNER, IFC FILMS<br />
– DANIEL IRON, FOUNDRY FILMS<br />
LOOKING AT<br />
THE WORLD<br />
CANADIAN CINEMA<br />
BEYOND ITS BORDERS<br />
INTRO: THE HONOURABLE LIEUTENANT-GENERAL<br />
ROMÉO A. DALLAIRE<br />
– ANAÏS BARBEAU-LAVALETTE (INCH’ALLAH)<br />
– SUDZ SUTHERLAND (HOME AGAIN)<br />
– KIM NGUYEN (REBELLE)<br />
– RUBA NADDA (INESCAPABLE)<br />
NOT SHORT<br />
ON TALENT<br />
CANADA’S FUNNIER<br />
THAN EVER<br />
INTRO: ACTOR AND DIRECTOR PAUL GROSS<br />
– EVAN MORGAN (A PRETTY FUNNY STORY)<br />
– NIK SEXTON (HOW TO BE DEADLY)<br />
– JONATHAN WILLIAMS (CANOEJACKED)<br />
– GRAYDON SHEPPARD AND KYLE HUMPHREY (SHIT GIRLS SAY)<br />
– SOPHIE JARVIS (WORST DAY EVER)<br />
STORIES THAT BRING US TOGETHER<br />
DES HISTOIRES QUI NOUS RASSEMBLENT<br />
T E L E F I L M . C A<br />
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CANADIAN FILM HAS ENTERED A NEW ERA.<br />
Carolle Brabant, executive direc<strong>to</strong>r of Telefilm Canada,<br />
is Canada’s premier film financier, backing such titles<br />
as Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children and Ruba Nadda’s<br />
Inescapable that will receive world bows at <strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong><br />
International Film Festival.<br />
But <strong>the</strong>re were raised eyebrows a year ago when Brabant a<br />
introduced a “success index” for Telefilm Canada <strong>to</strong> measure how<br />
Canadian titles fared at home and overseas, in <strong>the</strong>aters and beyond.<br />
A year later, <strong>the</strong> decision <strong>to</strong> tally film festival trophies and<br />
international sales <strong>to</strong> measure how homegrown movies perform has<br />
transformed how Canadians see <strong>the</strong>ir own cinema.<br />
In a bold move, Telefilm Canada helped Canadian films <strong>to</strong> break<br />
out at major international film festivals, including Cannes,<br />
Venice and Locarno.<br />
<strong>The</strong> result helped build audience anticipation ahead of foreignlanguage<br />
Oscar contenders such as Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies and<br />
Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar arriving in domestic <strong>the</strong>aters.<br />
Take Incendies, which bowed in Venice and Toron<strong>to</strong> with critical<br />
buzz and acclaim. “That, combined with <strong>the</strong> promotion that<br />
[Telefilm] at <strong>the</strong> time did certainly helped <strong>the</strong> career of <strong>the</strong> film,”<br />
Brabant recalls.<br />
Likewise, Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar grabbed two prizes at<br />
Locarno en route <strong>to</strong> its Oscar nomination and promotional push by<br />
Telefilm Canada. “It’s not a secret. It’s how <strong>the</strong> Americans have built<br />
buzz around <strong>the</strong>ir films,” Brabant argues.<br />
But not in Canada, until Telefilm Canada began supporting<br />
game-changing films that hit with audiences at home and abroad.<br />
T-1<br />
Canadian Passport<br />
Canadian filmmaker Deepa<br />
Mehta’s adaptation of Salman<br />
Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children will<br />
have its world premiere at TIFF.<br />
THE GREAT<br />
NORTHERN EXPANSION<br />
Telefilm Canada’s comprehensive strategy for promoting local cinema — including<br />
a ‘success index’ — is quietly transforming <strong>the</strong> Canuck film sec<strong>to</strong>r By Etan Vlessing<br />
That quest for box office goes beyond promotional backing from<br />
Telefilm Canada at TIFF.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Canadian film industry has seen many of its biggest boxoffice<br />
triumphs come from international co-productions.<br />
So Telefilm Canada is looking <strong>to</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> and Cannes, where it<br />
held a Canadian talent tribute in May, and elsewhere overseas <strong>to</strong><br />
mine <strong>the</strong> international terrain for additional foreign co-production<br />
coin and partners.<br />
“All countries are struggling with <strong>the</strong>ir financial situation,” Brabant<br />
says, “and Canada is doing a little bit better than o<strong>the</strong>r countries.<br />
So American and o<strong>the</strong>r foreign film producers are looking <strong>to</strong><br />
partner with Canadians, not least <strong>to</strong> take advantage of domestic tax<br />
credits and international co-production treaties.<br />
<strong>The</strong> federal government’s film financier is even selecting local<br />
movie scripts for Chinese producers <strong>to</strong> possibly make as official<br />
Canada-China co-productions.<br />
“It’s well known that we have talented people, even though we're<br />
a small market,” Brabant insists. Telefilm Canada also has set about<br />
attracting more private coin for Canadian films <strong>to</strong> leverage dwindling<br />
government subsidies.<br />
<strong>The</strong> stepped-up promotional push for Canadian film will culminate<br />
this week at TIFF with initiatives including <strong>the</strong> Talent <strong>to</strong> Watch<br />
series, <strong>the</strong> Talent Lab professional development workshop and<br />
<strong>the</strong> Filmmaker Boot Camp, a training event for local filmmakers<br />
descending on Toron<strong>to</strong>.<br />
“This year is a good year for Canadian films at TIFF. We have a good<br />
selection that shows what Canada is all about, about diversity and a good<br />
balance between woman and men filmmakers,” Brabant says. THR<br />
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Canadian Passport<br />
CANADIAN TITLES<br />
SCREENING AT TIFF<br />
A complete rundown of locally produced movies playing throughout <strong>the</strong> fest<br />
CAMION<br />
Rafal Ouellet<br />
<strong>The</strong> Montreal filmmaker returns<br />
<strong>to</strong> TIFF with his fourth feature, a<br />
drama about a working-class family<br />
that reconnects in <strong>the</strong> wake of a fatal<br />
road accident. <strong>The</strong> French-language<br />
pic, starring Julien Poulin, Patrice<br />
Dubois and Stephane Bre<strong>to</strong>n,<br />
earned <strong>the</strong> best direc<strong>to</strong>r award and<br />
<strong>the</strong> Ecumenical prize at <strong>the</strong> Karlovy<br />
Vary International Film Festival.<br />
North American Premiere<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 6 2:15 p.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Press & Industry Sept.<br />
13 12:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 5;<br />
Public Sept. 12 9:30 p.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 3; Public Sept. 14 6 p.m. Cineplex<br />
Yonge & Dundas 10; Public Sept. 15 1:15<br />
p.m. Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 10<br />
THE CRIMES OF MIKE RECKET<br />
Bruce Sweeney<br />
<strong>The</strong> neo-noir police procedural<br />
portrays a failed real estate agent,<br />
played by Nicolas Lea, who seduces<br />
and defrauds a writer <strong>to</strong> turn things<br />
around, only <strong>to</strong> end up <strong>the</strong> subject of<br />
a criminal investigation. Also stars<br />
Gabrielle Rose and Agam Darshi.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 2 p.m. Scotiabank<br />
9; Press & Industry Sept. 12<br />
2:45 p.m. Scotiabank 9; Public Sept. 11<br />
9:45 p.m. Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7;<br />
Public Sept. 13 9 p.m. Cineplex Yonge<br />
& Dundas 10<br />
HOME AGAIN<br />
Sudz Su<strong>the</strong>rland<br />
<strong>The</strong> Tatiana Ali-starring drama<br />
follows three adults raised as<br />
foreigners in <strong>the</strong> U.S., Canada<br />
and Britain from childhood and<br />
deported <strong>to</strong> Jamaica, <strong>the</strong> country<br />
of <strong>the</strong>ir birth, on a journey of<br />
survival and discovery.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 2:30 p.m.<br />
Scotiabank 11; Public Sept. 12 5:30 p.m.<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7; Public Sept.<br />
14 5 p.m. Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7<br />
MY AWKWARD SEXUAL<br />
ADVENTURE<br />
Sean Garrity<br />
Starring Emily Hampshire and<br />
Jonas Chernik, <strong>the</strong> drama sees a<br />
conservative accountant looking<br />
<strong>to</strong> win back his ex-girlfriend who<br />
hires an exotic dancer <strong>to</strong> guide him<br />
on a journey of sexual discovery in<br />
<strong>the</strong> world of strip clubs, massage<br />
parlors and cross-dressing.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 8 9 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Press & Industry<br />
Sept. 12 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema<br />
3; Public Sept. 11 7 p.m. Scotiabank<br />
4; Public Sept. 13 8:30 p.m. Cineplex<br />
Yonge & Dundas 9 ; Public Sept. 15 9:45<br />
a.m. Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9<br />
THE LESSER BLESSED<br />
Anita Doron<br />
Twilight ac<strong>to</strong>r Kiowa Gordon and<br />
Benjamin Bratt <strong>to</strong>pline a comingof-age<br />
tale about a First Nations<br />
teenager struggling <strong>to</strong> cope with<br />
a painful past and trying <strong>to</strong> find<br />
his place in <strong>the</strong> modern world.<br />
Newcomer Joel Evans, a 16-year-old<br />
native Canadian from Fort Smith in<br />
<strong>the</strong> Northwest Terri<strong>to</strong>ries, also stars<br />
in <strong>the</strong> drama, shot in Canada’s north.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 9:45 a.m.<br />
Scotiabank 10; Public Sept. 9 4 p.m.<br />
Isabel Bader <strong>The</strong>ater; Public Sept. 11<br />
T-2<br />
6:15 p.m. Scotiabank 2<br />
BLACKBIRD<br />
Jason Bux<strong>to</strong>n<br />
<strong>The</strong> timely first feature, starring<br />
Connor Jessup and Alexia Fast,<br />
portrays a troubled teen who is<br />
falsely accused of planning a<br />
Columbine-type shooting scenario<br />
online. Jailed in a youth detention<br />
facility, <strong>the</strong> 16-year-old struggles<br />
<strong>to</strong> defend his innocence and fend<br />
off a public crucifixion in a smartly<br />
produced cyber-bullying drama.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Discovery<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 4:15 p.m. Scotiabank<br />
9; Press & Industry Sept. 13 4:15<br />
p.m. Scotiabank 9; Public Sept. 9 9:45<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3; Public<br />
Sept. 10 1 p.m. Jackman Hall (AGO)<br />
KRIVINA<br />
Igor Drljaca<br />
Miro, an immigrant from <strong>the</strong><br />
former Yugoslavia, lives in Toron<strong>to</strong>.<br />
When he finds out that his prewar<br />
friend Dado, who has been missing<br />
for almost two decades, is now<br />
wanted for war-era crimes, his<br />
life starts <strong>to</strong> unravel. <strong>The</strong> Serbo-<br />
Croatian- and Bosnian-language<br />
pic stars Goran Slavkovic, Jasmin<br />
Geljo and Edis Livnjak.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Discovery<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 9:30 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 5<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 13 6:45 p.m.<br />
Scotiabank 9; Public Sept. 9 9:15 p.m.<br />
Jackman Hall (AGO) ; Public Sept. 11 3<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
PICTURE DAY<br />
Kate Melville<br />
A floundering high school senior,<br />
played by Tatiana Maslany, is<br />
forced <strong>to</strong> repeat her last year of<br />
classes. Caught between adolescence<br />
and adulthood, she falls<br />
in love with an aging rock star,<br />
while making friends with a nerdy<br />
freshman. <strong>The</strong> indie pic marks<br />
Nadda<br />
Mehta<br />
Melville<br />
WOMEN HELMERS<br />
MAKE THEIR MARK<br />
A number of high-profile titles from female filmmakers<br />
adds diversity <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> TIFF lineup By Etan Vlessing<br />
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screenwriter Melville’s direc<strong>to</strong>rial<br />
debut and also stars Spencer Van<br />
Wyck and Steven McCarthy.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Discovery<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 2:15 p.m.<br />
Scotiabank 6; Press & Industry Sept. 13<br />
8:30 a.m. Scotiabank 3; Public Sept. 7<br />
9:45 p.m. Isabel Bader <strong>The</strong>ater; Public<br />
Sept. 8 3:30 p.m. Cineplex Yonge &<br />
Dundas 6; Public Sept. 16 6:45 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
TOWER<br />
Kazik Radwanski<br />
<strong>The</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> filmmaker, known for<br />
Home Again direc<strong>to</strong>r<br />
Sudz Su<strong>the</strong>rland’s<br />
previous film Love, Sex<br />
and Eating <strong>the</strong> Bones<br />
won best first feature<br />
at TIFF in 2003.<br />
his signature short films, makes<br />
his feature debut with a character<br />
study about Derek, a thirty-something<br />
loner without a career who<br />
finds romance with Nicole while<br />
on a quest <strong>to</strong> find <strong>the</strong> raccoon who<br />
has been tearing up his family’s<br />
garbage. Tower, which stars Derek<br />
Bogart and Nicole Fairbairn,<br />
debuted at Locarno.<br />
North American Premiere<br />
Discovery<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 9 2 p.m. Scotiabank<br />
7; Public Sept. 11 10 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 3; Public<br />
Sept. 12 6:15 p.m. Cineplex Yonge &<br />
Dundas 9<br />
CANADIAN FEMALE FILM DIRECTORS HAVE CRACKED THE<br />
old boys club. In addition <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> high-heeled and designergowned<br />
festival starlets strutting <strong>the</strong> red carpet at <strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong><br />
International Film Festival will be seven Canadian women screening<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir latest movies.<br />
“For me, this is a beautiful conversation <strong>to</strong> have. It puts out in <strong>the</strong><br />
open <strong>the</strong> elephant in <strong>the</strong> room,” says Ruba Nadda, who is receiving a<br />
world premiere at Roy Thomson Hall for her Marisa Tomei-starring<br />
Syrian drama Inescapable.<br />
“I have o<strong>the</strong>r issues,” she adds. “I’m an Arab. I have everything<br />
thrown at me, being an Arab, Syrian and a woman filmmaker.”<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong> also will play host <strong>to</strong> Sarah Polley’s S<strong>to</strong>ries We Tell, where<br />
<strong>the</strong> Oscar-nominated filmmaker peels away <strong>the</strong> layers from a family<br />
of s<strong>to</strong>rytellers; Anais Barbeau-Lavalette’s Inch Allah, which is set in<br />
<strong>the</strong> West Bank; and Anita Doron’s <strong>The</strong> Lesser Blessed, a coming-ofage<br />
s<strong>to</strong>ry starring Benjamin Bratt.<br />
Also getting gala treatment at Roy Thomson Hall is Deepa<br />
Mehta’s Midnight’s Children, her long-awaited collaboration with<br />
British novelist Salman Rushdie.<br />
“I’m not surprised that TIFF is showcasing a strong female<br />
T-3<br />
LUNARCY!<br />
Simon Ennis<br />
<strong>The</strong> debut feature documentary<br />
follows a group of dreamers who<br />
have devoted <strong>the</strong>ir lives <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
moon. Ennis follows eccentric subjects<br />
across North America as <strong>the</strong>y<br />
pursue lunar goals — from moon<br />
rituals in Brooklyn <strong>to</strong> lunar laser<br />
shows in San An<strong>to</strong>nio, from <strong>the</strong><br />
world’s largest science fiction convention<br />
<strong>to</strong> a dusty space port in <strong>the</strong><br />
Mojave Desert. Ennis’ first feature,<br />
You Might as Well Live, was a 2009<br />
Slamdance award winner.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Real <strong>to</strong> Reel<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:30 a.m. Scotiabank<br />
9; Public Sept. 8 6:30 p.m. Cineplex<br />
Yonge & Dundas 10; Public Sept. 13 5 p.m.<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2<br />
REVOLUTION<br />
Rob Stewart<br />
<strong>The</strong> follow-up <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> box-office hit<br />
Sharkwater, Stewart takes his audience<br />
an impassioned and at times<br />
angry quest <strong>to</strong> s<strong>to</strong>p <strong>the</strong> destruction<br />
of Earth’s precious marine life.<br />
<strong>The</strong> doc starts with <strong>the</strong> release of<br />
Sharkwater in China and <strong>the</strong> filmmaker<br />
recognizing that sharks still<br />
face a bleak future.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Real <strong>to</strong> Reel<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 2:30 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 5; Public Sept.<br />
12 8:45 p.m. Cineplex Yonge & Dundas<br />
6; Public Sept. 14 2:30 p.m. Cineplex<br />
Yonge & Dundas 2<br />
SHOW STOPPER:<br />
THE THEATRICAL LIFE<br />
OF GARTH DRABINSKY<br />
Barry Avrich<br />
Avrich, who has done documentaries<br />
on such power players as Lew<br />
Wasserman, Harvey Weinstein<br />
and Dominick Dunne, has turned<br />
his camera on Garth Drabinsky.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Canadian former Broadway<br />
impresario is in jail for his role in <strong>the</strong><br />
downfall of live stage producer Live<br />
Entertainment, which most recently<br />
was owned by Michael Ovitz. Interviewees<br />
include Diahann Carroll,<br />
Chita Rivera and Elaine Stritch.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Real <strong>to</strong> Reel<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 9 2:15 p.m.<br />
Scotiabank 9; Public Sept. 11 6:45 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 1; Public Sept. 13<br />
2 p.m. Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7<br />
THE SECRET<br />
DISCO REVOLUTION<br />
Jamie Kastner<br />
You might think you know disco.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> filmmaker’s cheeky<br />
documentary spotlights <strong>the</strong> muchmaligned<br />
world of disco, arguing<br />
<strong>the</strong> musical genre represented a<br />
moment of mass liberation for<br />
women, African-Americans and<br />
contingency as [<strong>the</strong> fest] always has been ahead of <strong>the</strong> game in<br />
terms of featuring a true and diverse cross section of s<strong>to</strong>rytellers in<br />
our country, many of which happen <strong>to</strong> be women,” Mehta says.<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong> also booked world premieres for Manon Briand’s<br />
Liverpool, a feature drama about a coat check attendant in a<br />
bar who returns an unclaimed coat <strong>to</strong> its owner, only <strong>to</strong> land in<br />
<strong>the</strong> middle of criminal intrigue, and Kate Melville’s direc<strong>to</strong>rial<br />
debut with Picture <strong>Day</strong>, coming-of-age s<strong>to</strong>ry starring Tatiana<br />
Maslany.<br />
“Technology is changing, <strong>the</strong> means of production is ending up<br />
in <strong>the</strong> hands of <strong>the</strong> filmmakers and we get <strong>to</strong> hear more voices,”<br />
Melville says of more Canadian women directing — and often writing<br />
— TIFF titles.<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong> fest direc<strong>to</strong>r Piers Handling applauds <strong>the</strong> slew of Canadian<br />
female direc<strong>to</strong>rs breaking new ground at TIFF.<br />
Says Handling: “What’s different this year is we have seven<br />
[Canadian] women filmmakers — and that’s wonderful because,<br />
certainly as a festival programmer and direc<strong>to</strong>r, we’re looking for<br />
representation for women. And that’s probably <strong>the</strong> most exciting<br />
thing in <strong>the</strong> program for me.” THR<br />
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gay men. <strong>The</strong> un<strong>to</strong>ld s<strong>to</strong>ry of <strong>the</strong><br />
disco revolution features Village<br />
People, Gloria Gaynor and Kool<br />
and <strong>the</strong> Gang.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Real <strong>to</strong> Reel<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 9 4:30 p.m.<br />
Scotiabank 3; Public Sept. 8 9:45 p.m.<br />
Scotiabank 3; Public Sept. 13 3 p.m.<br />
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema<br />
INESCAPABLE<br />
Ruba Nadda<br />
Alexander Siddig, Joshua Jackson<br />
and Marisa Tomei star in a timely<br />
thriller about a man whose<br />
daughter disappears in Damascus,<br />
forcing him <strong>to</strong> return <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> country<br />
he left behind more than three<br />
decades ago. <strong>The</strong> Canada-South<br />
Africa co-production enjoying<br />
gala treatment in Toron<strong>to</strong> follows<br />
Nadda’s earlier <strong>the</strong>atrical drama<br />
Cairo Time, which snagged <strong>the</strong><br />
best Canadian feature prize at <strong>the</strong><br />
2009 Toron<strong>to</strong> International<br />
Film Festival.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Gala<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 8 10:45 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 3; Press &<br />
Industry Sept. 10 2:15 p.m. Scotiabank<br />
2; Public Sept. 11 6:30 p.m. Roy<br />
Thomson Hall; Public Sept. 13 5 p.m.<br />
Scotiabank 1<br />
MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN<br />
Deepa Mehta<br />
<strong>The</strong> Canadian-Indian filmmaker’s<br />
long-awaited adaptation of<br />
Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prizewinning<br />
1981 novel spans generations<br />
as <strong>the</strong> allegorical fantasy<br />
captures India’s transition from<br />
British colonialism <strong>to</strong> independence<br />
and partition through<br />
<strong>the</strong> eyes of two children. <strong>The</strong><br />
epic drama stars Shabana Azmi,<br />
Seema Biswas, Rahul Bose and<br />
Charles Dance.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Gala<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:30 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 1; Public<br />
Sept. 9 6:30 p.m. Roy Thomson Hall;<br />
Public Sept. 10 9 a.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 2<br />
ALL THAT YOU POSSESS<br />
Bernard Emond<br />
<strong>The</strong> Quebec filmmaker has created<br />
a drama about a disgruntled<br />
scholar trying <strong>to</strong> withdraw from<br />
<strong>the</strong> world but finds personal ties<br />
drawing him back in<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> family<br />
he had left behind. <strong>The</strong> Frenchlanguage<br />
pic, from <strong>the</strong> direc<strong>to</strong>r of<br />
La donation and La neuvaine, stars<br />
Patrick Drolet, Isabelle Vincent,<br />
Gilles Renaud and Sara Simard.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Masters<br />
Public Sept. 10 7:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 3; Public Sept. 12 2:15 p.m..<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 6<br />
THE END OF TIME<br />
Peter Mettler<br />
Having bowed in Locarno,<br />
Mettler’s film traverses <strong>the</strong> globe<br />
<strong>to</strong> explore, and explode, our<br />
conceptions of time by combining<br />
documentary, nature-heavy montages<br />
and philosophical speculation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Switzerland-Canada film<br />
is <strong>the</strong> latest from <strong>the</strong> Canadian<br />
experimental filmmaker, visual<br />
artist and cinema<strong>to</strong>grapher after<br />
Picture of Light, Gambling and<br />
Gods and LSD.<br />
International Premiere<br />
Masters<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 12:30 p.m.<br />
Scotiabank 7; Public Sept. 6 9:15 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 1; Public Sept. 8<br />
12:15 p.m. Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2<br />
100 MUSICIANS<br />
Charles Officer<br />
Politics enters <strong>the</strong> bedroom as<br />
<strong>the</strong> veteran Canadian television<br />
direc<strong>to</strong>r delivers an eight-minute<br />
short about a couple in <strong>the</strong><br />
afterglow of making love who<br />
<strong>the</strong>n quarrel over what <strong>the</strong>y<br />
believe <strong>the</strong>y hear on <strong>the</strong> radio.<br />
Rainbow Sun Francks and Abena<br />
Malika star.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
10 6:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4;<br />
Public Sept. 11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 4<br />
T-4<br />
A PRETTY FUNNY STORY<br />
Evan Morgan<br />
Rick, a bored family man, witnesses<br />
a neighbor’s embarrassing act and is<br />
eager <strong>to</strong> report <strong>the</strong> s<strong>to</strong>ry back <strong>to</strong> his<br />
co-workers <strong>to</strong> become an office hit.<br />
<strong>The</strong> neighbor, shamed and maniacal,<br />
has o<strong>the</strong>r designs and takes<br />
action against his bully by targeting<br />
Rick’s son. Justin Conley and Erin<br />
Hicock <strong>to</strong>pline <strong>the</strong> 19-minute short.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Public Sept. 7 7:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 3; Public Sept. 8 1:15 p.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
AMERICAN SISYPHUS<br />
Frieda Luk<br />
A dysfunctional family meets over<br />
Sunday brunch, leaving a young<br />
daughter caught between <strong>the</strong><br />
insipid chatter of her family and<br />
her fa<strong>the</strong>r’s refusal <strong>to</strong> leave a buffet<br />
table. <strong>The</strong> commentary on an overindulgent<br />
society stars Rob Roig,<br />
Jody Flynn and Sophia Nisivoccia.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;<br />
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 3<br />
ASIAN GANGS<br />
Lewis Bennett and Calum MacLeod<br />
Bennett, as a documentary filmmaker,<br />
revisits his past, which<br />
includes an elementary schoolyard<br />
fight that led his school principal <strong>to</strong><br />
warn “Change your ways, or you’ll<br />
end up in an Asian gang.” Now<br />
Bennett must find out whe<strong>the</strong>r, as a<br />
Caucasian, he became a member of<br />
an Asian gang.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 8 11:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 8 6:15<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
9 9 am. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3<br />
BARDO LIGHT<br />
Connor Gas<strong>to</strong>n<br />
A young man accused of killing<br />
his fa<strong>the</strong>r proclaims his innocence<br />
and tells <strong>the</strong> police that <strong>the</strong> TV<br />
set is <strong>the</strong> real offender. Inspired<br />
by <strong>The</strong> Tibetan Book of <strong>the</strong> Dead,<br />
Gas<strong>to</strong>n’s 11-minute film stars Chris<br />
Mackie, Donna Barnfield and<br />
Shaan Rahman.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 7 7:15<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3; Public<br />
Sept. 8 1:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
BAREFOOT<br />
Danis Goulet<br />
Goulet’s coming-of-age tale follows<br />
16-year-old Alyssa in a tightknit<br />
Cree community in nor<strong>the</strong>rn Saskatchewan<br />
planning <strong>to</strong> become a<br />
mo<strong>the</strong>r and challenged by reality.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Emily Roberts and Cole Ballantyne<br />
starrer spotlights <strong>the</strong> pressures<br />
young people face in isolated<br />
Canadian communities as <strong>the</strong>y try<br />
<strong>to</strong> take control of <strong>the</strong>ir lives.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 11 9:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 12 6 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 2; Public Sept. 13 2<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
BROKEN HEART SYNDROME<br />
Dusty Mancinelli<br />
After being dumped by his<br />
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Three men from very different<br />
backgrounds end up in <strong>the</strong> same<br />
boat — literally — in Jonathan<br />
Williams’ short Canoejacked.<br />
girlfriend while making love, Russ<br />
is diagnosed with a rare disease<br />
known as BHS (broken heart<br />
syndrome). His romance mocked<br />
by a world that never comes <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
rescue, Russ needs <strong>to</strong> find a cure.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
10 6:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4;<br />
Public Sept. 11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 4<br />
BYDLO<br />
Patrick Bouchard<br />
Inspired by Russian composer<br />
Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an<br />
Exhibition, Bydlo uses a wooden<br />
Polish ox cart picture <strong>to</strong> portray<br />
an allegory of man and beast as<br />
mankind heads <strong>to</strong>ward disaster.<br />
<strong>The</strong> clay-sculpture animated short<br />
was produced by <strong>the</strong> National Film<br />
Board of Canada.<br />
Canadian Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 7 7:15<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3; Public<br />
Sept. 8 1:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
CANOEJACKED<br />
Jonathan Williams<br />
Two fugitives, Vinny and Cisco,<br />
elude <strong>the</strong> police while being chased<br />
through <strong>the</strong> woods when <strong>the</strong>y find<br />
a canoe left by its owner, a nudist,<br />
who wants it back. As bullets fly in<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir direction, all three men jump<br />
in <strong>the</strong> canoe. Al Sapienza, Mpho<br />
Koaho and Pat Thorn<strong>to</strong>n star.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;<br />
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 3<br />
CRACKIN’ DOWN HARD<br />
Mike Clattenburg<br />
A young man travels <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> desert<br />
for some meditation and solitary<br />
TELEFILM CANADA<br />
INVADES BIG APPLE<br />
Manhattan-based Eye on TIFF yields fruit<br />
for emerging Canuck filmmakers By Etan Vlessing<br />
START SPREADING THE NEWS: THE CANADIANS HAVE TAKEN<br />
Manhattan. Even before <strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> International Film Festival<br />
got underway, Telefilm Canada got Canadian talent in front<br />
of <strong>the</strong> biggest U.S. film buyers as part of <strong>the</strong> second annual Eye on<br />
TIFF in New York showcase.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> idea is <strong>to</strong> put <strong>the</strong> spotlight on those films, so when buyers<br />
attend <strong>the</strong> festival, <strong>the</strong>y al<strong>read</strong>y know what <strong>to</strong> look for,” said Carolle<br />
Brabant, executive direc<strong>to</strong>r of Telefilm Canada, which funds<br />
Canadian film on behalf of <strong>the</strong> federal government.<br />
On Aug. 22 at <strong>the</strong> Crosby Street Hotel Cinema in Manhattan<br />
emerging Canadian filmmakers got <strong>the</strong> full attention of New York<br />
T-5<br />
hiking, only <strong>to</strong> see serenity ruined<br />
by a strange man appearing out of<br />
nowhere. Clattenburg’s ludicrously<br />
funny tale stars Nicolas Wright,<br />
Yoursie Thomas and Caitlin Howden.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
10 6:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4;<br />
Public Sept. 11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 4<br />
DEAR SCAVENGERS<br />
Aaron Phelan<br />
A used-appliance shop owner in<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong> who only has patience<br />
for real cus<strong>to</strong>mers has <strong>to</strong> serve<br />
groups of tween girls in his s<strong>to</strong>re<br />
on summer camp scavenger hunts.<br />
Hrant Alianak plays <strong>the</strong> role of<br />
<strong>the</strong> anti-social s<strong>to</strong>re owner, with<br />
Helen Colliander and Erin Pitt<br />
also starring.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;<br />
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 3<br />
FROST<br />
Jeremy Ball<br />
<strong>The</strong> epic sci-fi thriller follows Nava,<br />
a young Arctic hunter determined<br />
<strong>to</strong> prove her skills on a dangerous<br />
search for scarce food. At <strong>the</strong> edge<br />
of <strong>the</strong> known terri<strong>to</strong>ry, she makes<br />
a discovery that will call for her <strong>to</strong><br />
win <strong>the</strong> battle in a new world. Frost<br />
is <strong>the</strong> first Canadian Film Centre<br />
short <strong>to</strong> shoot in an HD format.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 1:45 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
11 6:30 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4;<br />
Public Sept. 12 4:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 4<br />
HERD LEADER<br />
Chloe Robichaud<br />
Clara leads a solitary life, <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> frustration<br />
of her meddling family, until<br />
her spinster aunt’s death has Clara<br />
inherit a disobedient pug. Living<br />
with man’s best friend teaches her a<br />
few new tricks. <strong>The</strong> Eve Duranceaustarring<br />
short bowed at Cannes.<br />
Canadian Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;<br />
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 3<br />
H’MONG SISTERS<br />
Jeff Wong<br />
Teenage sisters living in mountainous<br />
Vietnam take an American<br />
backpacker on a trek and<br />
find everything changes as <strong>the</strong>y<br />
guide <strong>the</strong> Western man through<br />
acquisitions, festival programming and exhibi<strong>to</strong>rs.<br />
And <strong>the</strong> New York community received a sneak peak at Canadian<br />
films at TIFF, thanks <strong>to</strong> a show reel of about 10 titles.<br />
Canadian filmmakers at <strong>the</strong> North American<br />
industry mixer included Anita Doron, direc<strong>to</strong>r of <strong>The</strong><br />
Lesser Blessed; Sean Garrity, direc<strong>to</strong>r of My Awkward<br />
Sexual Adventure; Picture <strong>Day</strong> direc<strong>to</strong>r Kate Melville;<br />
Brabant and Kazik Radwanski, direc<strong>to</strong>r of Tower.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Manhattan showcase comes as American stars are<br />
increasingly more open <strong>to</strong> working with Canadian direc<strong>to</strong>rs on<br />
indie projects.<br />
And TIFF wouldn’t be TIFF without a parade of <strong>Hollywood</strong> stars<br />
seizing <strong>the</strong> spotlight.<br />
So Telefilm Canada is looking <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> Big Apple as a place where<br />
Canadians get on<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> radar of U.S. film buyers before <strong>the</strong> circus<br />
comes <strong>to</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong>.<br />
“It brings <strong>the</strong> spotlight so <strong>the</strong> [Canadian] films don’t get lost in<br />
<strong>the</strong> vast amount of films that get presented at TIFF,” Brabant says<br />
of <strong>the</strong> Eye on TIFF ga<strong>the</strong>ring in New York City. THR<br />
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a traditional way of life that has<br />
been threatened and transformed<br />
by economic and colonial forces.<br />
Phung Hoa Hoai Linh, Thuy Anh<br />
and Scott Dean star.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 8 11:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 8 6:15<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
9 9 am. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3<br />
HORRIBLE THINGS<br />
Vincent Biron<br />
Biron, who won <strong>the</strong> best Canadian<br />
short film prize at <strong>the</strong> 2010 Toron<strong>to</strong><br />
International Film Festival for<br />
Les Fleurs de l’age, returns with a <strong>the</strong>matically<br />
linked short about Dede,<br />
Carole and Steve and <strong>the</strong>ir attempts<br />
<strong>to</strong> make amends and assuage <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
guilt with gift-giving that falls comically<br />
short. Marc-An<strong>to</strong>ine Beaudette<br />
and Sebastien David star.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;<br />
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 3<br />
HOW TO BE DEADLY<br />
Nik Sex<strong>to</strong>n<br />
Donnie Dumphy is vulgar, harmless,<br />
a hoser, an underdog and a<br />
loyal friend — but he’s also brokenhearted.<br />
On <strong>the</strong> eve of St. John’s<br />
biggest dirt bike competition of <strong>the</strong><br />
year, he will live a thousand lives.<br />
North American Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;<br />
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 3<br />
I’M BEGINNING TO MISS YOU<br />
Sakay Ottawa<br />
Directed by and starring Ottawa,<br />
<strong>the</strong> short probes <strong>the</strong> disappearance<br />
of young man from Manawan,<br />
Quebec, without anyone seeing him<br />
leave. Amid stark images of a Canadian<br />
winter, a bro<strong>the</strong>r struggles <strong>to</strong><br />
maintain hope, looking for clues on<br />
his search for <strong>the</strong> lost young man.<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong> Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 11 9:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 12 6 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 2; Public Sept. 13 2<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
APART<br />
<strong>The</strong>odore Ushev<br />
Montreal anima<strong>to</strong>r Ushev’s latest<br />
short film calls for <strong>the</strong> liberation<br />
of imprisoned Iranian filmmakers<br />
as it focuses on <strong>the</strong> plight of Jafar<br />
Panahi. Using densely layered<br />
ro<strong>to</strong>scoped images embedded with<br />
Farsi text, Apart is produced by<br />
Marcel Jean and Galile Marion-<br />
Gauvin at L’Unite Centrale as part<br />
of <strong>the</strong> Jafar Panahi project 2012.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 7 7:15<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3; Public<br />
Sept. 8 1:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
KEEP A MODEST HEAD<br />
Deco Dawson<br />
Jean Benoit, a member of <strong>the</strong><br />
French surrealist movement, is<br />
<strong>the</strong> subject of a biography that<br />
is part narrative, documentary<br />
and animation. Mixing interviews<br />
recorded in Benoit’s Parisian<br />
studio with surrealist-inspired<br />
re-enactments, <strong>the</strong> Microclimat<br />
Films production deconstructs<br />
documentary conventions <strong>to</strong> eulogize<br />
a formidable artist.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 7 7:15<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3; Public<br />
Sept. 8 1:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
THE NEAR FUTURE<br />
Sophie Goyette<br />
Robin, a French pilot now living<br />
in Quebec, receives a phone call at<br />
work that turns his world upside<br />
down. Unseen by o<strong>the</strong>rs, turmoil<br />
fills his mind. He will have <strong>to</strong><br />
let <strong>the</strong> pain in but not yet. <strong>The</strong><br />
French-language Near Future,<br />
T-6<br />
Goyette’s sixth short film, stars<br />
Patrice Berthomier.<br />
Canadian Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 10 6:45<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
LET THE DAYLIGHT INTO<br />
THE SWAMP<br />
Jeffrey St. Jules<br />
With a mix of animation, reenactments<br />
and archival evidence,<br />
<strong>the</strong> National Film Board of Canada<br />
short assembles a three-part 3D<br />
documentary collage that explores<br />
<strong>the</strong> consequences of parents who<br />
make <strong>the</strong> difficult decision <strong>to</strong> give<br />
up <strong>the</strong>ir children.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 11 9:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 12 6<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2; Public<br />
Sept. 13 2 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
LIFE DOESN’T FRIGHTEN ME<br />
Stephen Dunn<br />
Celebrating her 13th birthday,<br />
Es<strong>the</strong>r Weary comes <strong>to</strong> terms with<br />
becoming a woman with <strong>the</strong> help<br />
of a well-intentioned grandfa<strong>the</strong>r<br />
and a nose that leaves her insecure.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’s sharp writing and<br />
standout performances by Jade<br />
Aspros and Gordon Pinsent in an<br />
exploration of ugliness and beauty.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 8 11:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 8 6:15<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
9 9 am. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3<br />
LINGO<br />
Bahar Noorizadeh<br />
A boy mistakenly starts a fire<br />
in a residential neighborhood,<br />
leaving his mo<strong>the</strong>r — an Afghan<br />
immigrant <strong>to</strong> Canada — a suspect,<br />
according <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> police. Protective<br />
of her son and hindered by a<br />
language barrier, <strong>the</strong> mo<strong>the</strong>r has<br />
trouble explaining with certainty<br />
what happened. Shaima Eshan and<br />
Farhad Sarwari star.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:15 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 7<br />
7:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3;<br />
Public Sept. 8 1:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 4<br />
LOST IN MOTION<br />
Ben Shirinian<br />
Choreographed and performed by<br />
Guillaume Cote, principal dancer<br />
with <strong>the</strong> National Ballet of Canada,<br />
Shirinian’s short portrays a dancer<br />
freed from costumes and sets and<br />
taking flight in a solo performance.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bravoFact short features a<br />
composition by James LaValle.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 10 6:45<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
MALODY<br />
Philip Barker<br />
As a young and sick woman sits in a<br />
roadside diner, her world is literally<br />
turned upside down. <strong>The</strong> ensuing<br />
chaos triggers a fateful chain of<br />
events, including seeing her reflection<br />
in <strong>the</strong> mirror as a little girl. <strong>The</strong><br />
short debuted at <strong>the</strong> Oberhausen<br />
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A vacationing Canadian<br />
is challenged <strong>to</strong> a unique<br />
test of wills in Patrick<br />
Sisam’s <strong>The</strong> Pool Date.<br />
International Short Film Festival.<br />
Alex Pax<strong>to</strong>n-Beasley, Ashleigh Warren<br />
and Thomas Huff star.<br />
North American Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 7 7:15<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3; Public<br />
Sept. 8 1:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
MODEL<br />
Dylan Reibling<br />
<strong>The</strong> second installment of <strong>the</strong> interactive<br />
artist’s Dead Media trilogy, <strong>the</strong><br />
short features an architectural model<br />
builder creating ornate buildings out<br />
of cardboard, paper and glue — until<br />
a new technology threatens <strong>to</strong> render<br />
his talents obsolete. Peter Pasyk and<br />
Michael Thomas star.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 10 6:45<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema; Public Sept.<br />
11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
NOSTRADAMOS<br />
Maxence Bradley, Elisabeth Olga<br />
Tremblay, Alexandre Lampron<br />
Veering between documentary<br />
and fiction, Nostradamos follows<br />
citizens preparing for <strong>the</strong> end<br />
of <strong>the</strong> world in <strong>the</strong> city of Amos,<br />
Quebec, apparently <strong>the</strong> safest<br />
place <strong>to</strong> survive. Made in 72 hours,<br />
Nostradamos portrays varied<br />
human reactions <strong>to</strong> potential<br />
environmental catastrophe. Ulrick<br />
Cherubin and Veronique Pepin<br />
feature in <strong>the</strong> cast.<br />
Canadian Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 8 11:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 8 6:15<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
9 9 am. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3<br />
OLD GROWTH<br />
Tess Girard<br />
In <strong>the</strong> frigid isolation of winter, an<br />
elderly man cuts down and assembles<br />
a cord of wood with nothing<br />
but an ax and a wheelbarrow. What<br />
first appears as a study in landscape<br />
becomes an elegy for nature’s sacrifice<br />
<strong>to</strong> fuel man’s existence.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 11 9:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 12 6 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 2; Public Sept. 13 2<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
THE POOL DATE<br />
Patrick Sisam<br />
A pasty-skinned Canadian, played<br />
by Mike Beaver, vacationing in<br />
South America and hanging by a<br />
pool surrounded by good-looking<br />
young people faces a sudden test of<br />
wills with Rio after a local stranger<br />
takes his chair and possibly his cocktail.<br />
<strong>The</strong> short, also starring Adamo<br />
Ruggiero, deals with questions of<br />
sexual desire and invitation.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;<br />
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 3<br />
REFLEXIONS<br />
Martin Thibaudeau<br />
<strong>The</strong> dark truth reveals itself at a<br />
graveside funeral service as looking<br />
beyond <strong>the</strong> surface reveals <strong>the</strong><br />
deceased’s former life. Tony Robinow,<br />
Nathalie Breuer, Marianne<br />
T-7<br />
Fortier and Rosalie Fortier <strong>to</strong>pline<br />
<strong>the</strong> English-language short.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 10 6:45<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
SAFE ROOM<br />
Elizabeth Lazebnik<br />
A semi-au<strong>to</strong>biographical film<br />
about a young Canadian woman<br />
recalling her experience sitting in<br />
a safe room as a child with her family<br />
in Israel during <strong>the</strong> Gulf War.<br />
Julia Mazour, Valentyn Ovsyuk<br />
and Nataly Model star.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 1:45 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 11<br />
6:30 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4;<br />
Public Sept. 12 4:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 4<br />
SHIT GIRLS SAY<br />
Graydon Sheppard<br />
A super-cut of <strong>the</strong> web series Shit<br />
Girls Say by Graydon Sheppard<br />
and Kyle Humphrey that features<br />
catchphrases women say as spoken<br />
by a man in drag. Juliette Lewis<br />
made a cameo appearance, and <strong>the</strong><br />
YouTube phenomenon spawned a<br />
slew of copycat videos.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;<br />
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 3<br />
PRODUCERS LAB<br />
COOKS UP RESULTS<br />
Emerging filmmakers get <strong>the</strong> chance <strong>to</strong> produce<br />
projects from Cronenberg, Reitman By Etan Vlessing<br />
ASHLEY MCKENZIE HAS A HOT TICKET FOR THE TORONTO<br />
International Film Festival. Away from <strong>the</strong> red carpets<br />
and A-list stars, <strong>the</strong> Nova Scotia filmmaker with Grassfire<br />
Films won’t be debuting a film in this year’s TIFF lineup.<br />
But she has an invite <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> festival’s ninth annual Talent Lab,<br />
an exclusive workshop during <strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> festival organized by<br />
Telefilm Canada <strong>to</strong> produce <strong>the</strong> next David Cronenberg or Jason<br />
Reitman.<br />
McKenzie was chosen from among 500 applicants for <strong>the</strong><br />
ga<strong>the</strong>ring <strong>to</strong> sharpen <strong>the</strong> skills of <strong>the</strong> country’s emerging filmmakers<br />
by learning from <strong>to</strong>p industry players.<br />
“I’m mostly <strong>the</strong>re <strong>to</strong> soak up knowledge from<br />
<strong>the</strong> world’s best filmmakers. So I’m <strong>the</strong>re <strong>to</strong> be<br />
inspired,” McKenzie says ahead of <strong>the</strong> four-day<br />
McKenzie event that draws on Telefilm’s track record in talent<br />
development and promotion.<br />
Talent Lab participants will hear guest speakers and take part<br />
in group discussions on <strong>the</strong>ir filmmaking craft, while boosting<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir skills and confidence <strong>to</strong> forge sustainable careers.<br />
“I’ll be <strong>the</strong>re <strong>to</strong> meet new people, <strong>to</strong> meet new friends,” says<br />
Canadian producer Hea<strong>the</strong>r Dahlstrom, ano<strong>the</strong>r Talent Lab<br />
attendee. “Anytime I’ve been <strong>to</strong> a festival before, I’ve ended up<br />
working with <strong>the</strong>m in some capacity.<br />
“I’m going <strong>to</strong> be busy, but it will be fun,” she adds.<br />
This year’s Talent Lab includes such industry men<strong>to</strong>rs as British<br />
producer Stephen Woolley, Canadian doc maker Jennifer Baichwal<br />
and Scott McGehee and David Siegel, <strong>the</strong> direc<strong>to</strong>rs of What Maisie<br />
Knew, a Sony Pictures Classics title screening at TIFF. THR<br />
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STRUGGLE<br />
Sophie Dupuis<br />
As Ariane prepares <strong>to</strong> leave<br />
Val-d’Or — and everything else<br />
— behind for <strong>the</strong> big city, her<br />
attempts <strong>to</strong> say goodbye <strong>to</strong> her<br />
bro<strong>the</strong>r are complicated by persistent<br />
sexual tension between <strong>the</strong>m.<br />
<strong>The</strong> portrait of young lust stars<br />
Noemi Lira, An<strong>to</strong>ine Paquin and<br />
Sonia Vigneault.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 8 11:15 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 8<br />
6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4;<br />
Public Sept. 9 9 am. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 3<br />
SULLIVAN’S APPLICANT<br />
Jeanne Leblanc<br />
Stuck in a traffic jam on her way<br />
<strong>to</strong> a job interview in down<strong>to</strong>wn<br />
Montreal, a harried Lucy, played<br />
by Judith Baribeau (Mauvaise<br />
Karma, Trauma), looks beyond<br />
<strong>the</strong> oppressive traffic and pushy<br />
city pulse <strong>to</strong> make a connection<br />
with a perfect stranger. Graham<br />
Cuthbertson co-stars.<br />
North American Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 1:45 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 11<br />
6:30 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4;<br />
Public Sept. 12 4:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 4<br />
THE TAPE<br />
Matt Austin Sadowski<br />
Julian Richings plays a Toron<strong>to</strong><br />
man frantically digging through<br />
his attic for a VHS cassette,<br />
and <strong>the</strong>n facing a 21st century<br />
problem: How does he play it?<br />
As <strong>the</strong> audience wonders what is<br />
on <strong>the</strong> tape, Austin Sadowski plays<br />
with our fears that obsolete technology<br />
might erase our collective<br />
memory.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 11 9:15 a.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 12<br />
6 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;<br />
Public Sept. 13 2 p.m. Bell Lightbox<br />
Cinema 4<br />
THEIR FEAST<br />
Reem Morsi<br />
Following <strong>the</strong> Egyptian revolution<br />
of 2011, a mo<strong>the</strong>r and her children<br />
prepare a celebra<strong>to</strong>ry meal <strong>to</strong><br />
mark <strong>the</strong> return of <strong>the</strong> eldest son<br />
from a prison stay. <strong>The</strong> timely<br />
short stars Hanan Youseff.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 1:45 p.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 11 6:30<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
12 4:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
TUESDAY<br />
Fantavious Fritz<br />
Inspired by a hypo<strong>the</strong>tical grown-up<br />
version of Holden Caulfield’s little<br />
sister Phoebe, Fritz creates an<br />
endearing character who embraces<br />
<strong>the</strong> awkward, irresponsible and<br />
defining moments of being a twentysomething.<br />
Daiva Zalnieriunas, Jon<br />
Gotlib and Brent Crawford star.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 8 11:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 8 6:15<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
9 9 am. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3<br />
THE DANCING COP<br />
Kelvin Redvers<br />
A surreal musical satire about a<br />
native Canadian man suspected of<br />
<strong>the</strong>ft by an overzealous police officer,<br />
who suddenly breaks from normal<br />
routine. William Belleau and Mikal<br />
Grant star in <strong>the</strong> song and dance film<br />
choreographed by Joel Sturrock.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 1:45 p.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 11 6:30<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
12 4:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
THE GENIUS FROM QUINTINO<br />
Johnny Ma<br />
Ricardo, played by Ricardo Dias, is a<br />
mechanic in <strong>the</strong> suburb of Quintino<br />
near Rio de Janeiro who can fix<br />
anything, until a child arrives with a<br />
broken fish <strong>to</strong>y. To repair <strong>the</strong> <strong>to</strong>y, <strong>the</strong><br />
mechanic must get in <strong>to</strong>uch with his<br />
T-8<br />
forgotten past. Guilherme Ribero<br />
and Pedro Henrique Nery also star in<br />
<strong>the</strong> Portuguese language short.<br />
North American Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 11 9:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 12 6 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 2; Public Sept. 13 2<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
WITH JEFF<br />
Marie-Eve Juste<br />
<strong>The</strong> French-language short about<br />
Nyduia, a Haitian Montreal<br />
teenager who goes on a date with<br />
Jeff, a no<strong>to</strong>rious player, debuted<br />
in Cannes as part of <strong>the</strong> Direc<strong>to</strong>rs’<br />
Fortnight. <strong>The</strong> film, from<br />
Montreal-based Voyous Films,<br />
stars Laury Verdieu and Liridion<br />
Rashiti.<br />
North American Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 10 6:45<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
THE WORST DAY EVER<br />
Sophie Jarvis<br />
Bernard can’t quite seem <strong>to</strong> get it<br />
right <strong>to</strong>day. <strong>The</strong> young boy wakes<br />
up <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> worst day of his life in a<br />
dark, Tim Bur<strong>to</strong>nesque comedy<br />
about a child’s fear of disappointment.<br />
Jakob Davies, Ingo Holst,<br />
Iris Paluly and Helen Camisa<br />
feature in <strong>the</strong> 12-minute film.<br />
North American Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 1:45 p.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 11 6:30<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
12 4:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
VIVE LA CANADIENNE<br />
Joe Cobden<br />
A lovely afternoon stroll in <strong>the</strong><br />
park becomes a dynamic dancing<br />
duel of quick steps and high kicks<br />
between burly men and a joyful<br />
young woman, whose boyfriend<br />
holds her purse. Cobden is a Montreal<br />
ac<strong>to</strong>r-direc<strong>to</strong>r who cut his<br />
teeth as an international <strong>to</strong>uring<br />
street performer at age 11.<br />
Antiviral is <strong>the</strong> debut<br />
feature from Brandon<br />
Cronenberg, son<br />
of famed Canadian<br />
helmer David.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 8 11:15 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 8 6:15<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public<br />
Sept. 9 9 am. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3<br />
WHEN YOU SLEEP<br />
Ashley McKenzie<br />
Halifax direc<strong>to</strong>r McKenzie’s second<br />
short film portrays a misfit young<br />
couple who feel trapped in an<br />
unhappy existence, just as <strong>the</strong>y<br />
deal with a rodent infestation in<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir slum apartment. <strong>The</strong> short<br />
stars newcomer Wins<strong>to</strong>n DeGiobbi<br />
and Toron<strong>to</strong>’s Eve Harlow.<br />
McKenzie’s first short, Rhonda’s<br />
Party, starred <strong>the</strong> French Canadian<br />
actress Karine Vanasse, who<br />
starred on ABC’s Pan Am.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 1:45 p.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 11 6:30<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.<br />
12 4:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
ANTIVIRAL<br />
Brandon Cronenberg<br />
<strong>The</strong> debut sci-fi film about an<br />
employee at a clinic that sells<br />
injections of live viruses harvested<br />
from sick celebrities comes from<br />
David Cronenberg’s son and offers<br />
a chilling vision of a dys<strong>to</strong>pian<br />
future. <strong>The</strong> Sarah Gadon and<br />
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Caleb Landry Jones—starrer<br />
debuted in Cannes and was<br />
picked up for <strong>the</strong> U.S. market by<br />
IFC Films.<br />
North American Premiere<br />
Special Presentations<br />
Press & Industry, September 6 5:00<br />
p.m. Scotiabank 2; Public, September<br />
10 9:00 p.m. Ryerson <strong>The</strong>ater; Public,<br />
September 12 2:45 p.m. Bloor Hot<br />
Docs Cinema<br />
INCH’ALLAH<br />
Anais Barbeau-Lavalette<br />
From <strong>the</strong> producing team behind<br />
<strong>the</strong> Oscar-nominated Monsieur<br />
Lazhar and Incendies comes a<br />
drama about a young obstetrician<br />
working in a Palestinian refugee<br />
camp who is confronted daily by<br />
<strong>the</strong> Israeli-Palestinian conflict and<br />
<strong>the</strong> people it affects. Evelyne Brochu,<br />
Sabrina Ouazani and Yousef<br />
Sweid star.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Special Presentations<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 9 2:00 p.m.<br />
Scotiabank 8; Public Sept. 8 6:00 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 2; Public Sept. 10<br />
6:45 p.m. Scotiabank 3<br />
LAURENCE ANYWAYS<br />
Xavier Dolan<br />
<strong>The</strong> Montreal auteur returns <strong>to</strong><br />
Toron<strong>to</strong> with a transgender love<br />
s<strong>to</strong>ry starring Melvil Poupard and<br />
Suzanne Clément about a man who<br />
tries <strong>to</strong> hold on <strong>to</strong> his relationship<br />
with his fiancée after telling her<br />
that he wants <strong>to</strong> become a woman.<br />
Dolan’s third feature bowed in<br />
Cannes, where his first two films,<br />
Heartbeats and J’ai tue m mere,<br />
won awards.<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong> Premiere<br />
Special Presentations<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 6 11:00 a.m.<br />
Scotiabank 1; Public Sept. 13 9:00<br />
p.m. Elgin Screening Room ; Public<br />
Sept. 15 9 a.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2<br />
LIVERPOOL<br />
Manon Briand<br />
<strong>The</strong> Montreal direc<strong>to</strong>r returns <strong>to</strong><br />
Toron<strong>to</strong> with a thriller-drama about<br />
a coat check attendant in a bar<br />
who decides <strong>to</strong> take an unclaimed<br />
coat back <strong>to</strong> its owner, only <strong>to</strong> find<br />
herself in <strong>the</strong> middle of criminal<br />
intrigue. <strong>The</strong> Quebec film stars<br />
Stéphanie Lapointe, Charles-Alexandre<br />
Dubé and Louis Morissette.<br />
Briand’s earlier films included 2<br />
Seconds and Chaos and Desire.<br />
International Premiere<br />
Special Presentations<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 9 11:30 a.m.<br />
Scotiabank 7; Public Sept. 11 9:45 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 2; Public Sept. 13<br />
6:45 p.m. Scotiabank 4<br />
REBELLE<br />
Kim Nguyen<br />
Fifteen-year-old Congolese actress<br />
Rachel Mwanza won <strong>the</strong> Silver<br />
Bear Award for best actress in<br />
Berlin when Rebelle, known as<br />
War Witch in English, bowed<br />
earlier this year. A breakout film<br />
by <strong>the</strong> Montreal writer/direc<strong>to</strong>r,<br />
Nguyen brings <strong>to</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> a love<br />
s<strong>to</strong>ry involving a child soldier<br />
in Africa caught up in a violent<br />
yet beautiful and magical world.<br />
Marking Mwanza’s screen debut,<br />
Rebelle also stars Alain Bastien<br />
and Serge Kanyinda.<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong> Premiere<br />
Special Presentation<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 2:00 p.m. Scotiabank<br />
3; Public Sept. 14 9 p.m. Elgin<br />
Screening Room; Public Sept. 15 3:00<br />
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2<br />
T-9<br />
STILL<br />
Michael McGowan<br />
Based on true events, Still has<br />
James Cromwell (Babe) starring as<br />
an 89-year-old New Brunswicker<br />
who faces jail time when <strong>the</strong><br />
government tries <strong>to</strong> s<strong>to</strong>p him from<br />
building a more suitable house<br />
for his wife, played by Geneviève<br />
Bujold, whose health is beginning<br />
<strong>to</strong> fade. McGowan’s earlier films<br />
One Week, Saint Ralph and Score: A<br />
Hockey Musical, all screened<br />
in Toron<strong>to</strong>.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Special Presentations<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 11 9:15 a.m.<br />
Scotiabank 3; Public Sept. 10 8:00 p.m.<br />
Winter Garden <strong>The</strong>ater ; Public Sept. 12<br />
12:45 p.m. at Bell Lightbox Cinema 1<br />
STORIES WE TELL<br />
Sarah Polley<br />
Oscar-nominated writer/direc<strong>to</strong>r<br />
Sarah Polley brings <strong>to</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong>, by<br />
way of <strong>the</strong> Venice Film Festival, a<br />
genre-twisting documentary from<br />
<strong>the</strong> National Film Board of Canada<br />
that investigates <strong>the</strong> secrets behind<br />
a family of s<strong>to</strong>rytellers. <strong>The</strong> Canadian<br />
ac<strong>to</strong>r-turned-direc<strong>to</strong>r unravels<br />
<strong>the</strong> paradoxes <strong>to</strong> reveal <strong>the</strong> essence<br />
of family: a messy, intense and loving<br />
tangle of contradictions.<br />
North American Premiere<br />
Special Presentations<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:45 a.m.<br />
Scotiabank 1; Public Sept. 7 6 p.m.<br />
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Public Sept. 8<br />
11:45 a.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2<br />
I DECLARE WAR<br />
Jason Lapeyre, Robert Wilson<br />
A group of 12-year-old kids play war<br />
in a local forest, but <strong>the</strong>ir game gets<br />
out of hand. With over<strong>to</strong>nes of Lord<br />
of <strong>the</strong> Flies, <strong>the</strong> kids make <strong>the</strong>ir own<br />
guns out of sticks and <strong>to</strong>ys but hear<br />
mortars exploding all around <strong>the</strong>mselves<br />
and dodge bloody shrapnel<br />
from grenades. Gage Munroe, Siam<br />
Yu, Michael Friend, Eric Hanson<br />
and Alex Cardillo star.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Vanguard<br />
Press & Industry Sept. 10 7:00 p.m.<br />
Scotiabank 9; Press & Industry Sept.<br />
12 12:30 p.m. Scotiabank 9; Public<br />
Sept. 9 4:15 p.m. Scotiabank 4; Public<br />
Sept. 11 2:00 p.m. Cineplex Yonge &<br />
Dundas 10; Public Sept. 14 9:45 p.m.<br />
Scotiabank 4<br />
BESTIAIRE<br />
Denis Cote<br />
<strong>The</strong> unique documentary, a<br />
Canada-France co-production,<br />
explores <strong>the</strong> human fascination<br />
with animals, especially those<br />
caged in a zoo or stuffed by a taxidermist,<br />
as <strong>the</strong> film spotlights an<br />
apparently widening gulf between<br />
animals and humans as <strong>the</strong>y both<br />
watch one ano<strong>the</strong>r.<br />
Canadian Premiere<br />
Wavelengths<br />
Press & Industry September 7 4:30 p.m.<br />
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public September<br />
14 6:30 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema<br />
3; Public September 16 10:00 a.m. Bell<br />
Lightbox Cinema 4<br />
A MINIMAL DIFFERENCE<br />
Jean-Paul Kelly<br />
Shot on Super 8 using a multiplane<br />
camera setup, Kelly’s<br />
five-minute short presents<br />
receding-depth images pulled<br />
from Google, Flickr and pho<strong>to</strong>journalism,<br />
each presented as<br />
metaphorical and factual, such<br />
as political protests in Bangkok,<br />
bodies piled after <strong>the</strong> 2010 Haitian<br />
earthquake and destruction in <strong>the</strong><br />
Gaza Strip.<br />
Canadian Premiere<br />
Wavelengths<br />
Public Sept 8 10:00 p.m. Jackman<br />
Hall (AGO)<br />
MANY A SWAN<br />
Blake Williams<br />
Dedicated <strong>to</strong> Akira Yoshizawa, <strong>the</strong><br />
grandmaster of origami, Blake<br />
Williams’ found-footage short film<br />
collapses 15 years of Grand Canyon<br />
his<strong>to</strong>ry and 65 years of 3D stereoscopic<br />
cinema by way of folding<br />
anaglyphic video planes.<br />
World Premiere<br />
Wavelengths<br />
Public Sept. 7 7:00 p.m. Jackman<br />
Hall (AGO) THR<br />
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CANADA.<br />
A WORLD OF TALENT.<br />
AT THE 2012 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL <br />
LIVERPOOL<br />
MANON BRIAND<br />
Special Presentations<br />
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN<br />
DEEPA MEHTA<br />
Gala<br />
TOUT CE QUE<br />
TU POSSÈDES<br />
(ALL THAT<br />
YOU POSSESS)<br />
BERNARD ÉMOND<br />
Masters<br />
CAMION<br />
RAFAËL OUELLET<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
BESTIAIRE<br />
DENIS CÔTÉ<br />
Wavelengths<br />
MY AWKWARD SEXUAL ADVENTURE<br />
SEAN GARRITY<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
I DECLARE WAR<br />
ROBERT WILSON, JASON LAPEYRE<br />
Vanguard<br />
LAURENCE ANYWAYS<br />
XAVIER DOLAN<br />
Special Presentations<br />
THE END OF TIME<br />
PETER METTLER<br />
Masters<br />
DON’T MISS THE 44 SHORT FILMS IN SHORT CUTS CANADA.<br />
REVOLUTION<br />
ROB STEWART<br />
TIFF Docs<br />
ANTIVIRAL<br />
BRANDON CRONENBERG<br />
Special Presentations<br />
STILL<br />
MICHAEL MCGOWAN<br />
Special Presentations<br />
KRIVINA<br />
IGOR DRLJACA<br />
Discovery<br />
STORIES WE TELL<br />
SARAH POLLEY<br />
Special Presentations<br />
STORIES THAT BRING US TOGETHER<br />
DES HISTOIRES QUI NOUS RASSEMBLENT<br />
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SHARING THE WEALTH<br />
During <strong>the</strong> third annual Producers Lab Toron<strong>to</strong> this week, European and Canadian producers<br />
are ga<strong>the</strong>ring <strong>to</strong> build cr0ss-continental relationships that could lead <strong>to</strong> co-productions By Etan Vlessing<br />
GOVERNMENT FILM SUBSIDIES AREN’T WHAT THEY USED<br />
<strong>to</strong> be. So as <strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> International Film Festival gets<br />
underway, 24 handpicked European and Canadian film<br />
producers are set <strong>to</strong> speed date at Producers Lab Toron<strong>to</strong><br />
as <strong>the</strong>y pursue one ano<strong>the</strong>r’s soft money.<br />
To entice a potential partner, <strong>the</strong> producers must have a preselected<br />
film project in hand for <strong>the</strong> Sept. 5-8 financing forum with co-production<br />
dollars providing <strong>the</strong> scent of attraction.<br />
“In <strong>the</strong> current economic situation that we all face,<br />
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Projects in<br />
development after <strong>the</strong><br />
first two editions of <strong>the</strong><br />
producers lab<br />
every producer is looking at less funding from domestic<br />
sources, so producers are more and more looking at<br />
co-productions as a way <strong>to</strong> finance <strong>the</strong>ir projects,” Sarah<br />
Timmins, a partner at Toron<strong>to</strong>-based Corvid Pictures,<br />
explained ahead of attending PLT.<br />
Dwindling government subsidies for indie film in<br />
Canada and Europe also will have co-production virgins in<br />
<strong>the</strong> room, especially producers looking <strong>to</strong> go from low- <strong>to</strong> midbudget<br />
pictures aimed at <strong>the</strong> international market.<br />
“We’ve been very fortunate <strong>to</strong> be really supported by <strong>the</strong> Canadian<br />
funders, but as our projects grow in scope and appeal <strong>to</strong> an audience<br />
outside of Canada, we have <strong>to</strong> start looking in o<strong>the</strong>r places for project<br />
funding, and that means outside of Canada,” said Aisling Chin-Lee<br />
of Prospec<strong>to</strong>r Films.<br />
“Co-productions are <strong>the</strong> ideal way <strong>to</strong> raise money if <strong>the</strong> budget<br />
is over $3 million <strong>to</strong> $4 million. <strong>The</strong>y are an ideal way <strong>to</strong> get <strong>to</strong> that<br />
higher number,” said Daniel Bekerman of Zazie Films, prizing foreign<br />
audiences and financing for his Canadian projects in development.<br />
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24<br />
Producers from<br />
Europe and Canada<br />
eyeing possible<br />
film funding<br />
<strong>The</strong> three days of exchanging ideas and information on film funding<br />
and co-productions is organized by <strong>the</strong> Ontario Media Development<br />
Corp. and European Film Promotion, in association with TIFF.<br />
Expect <strong>the</strong> Eurozone crisis <strong>to</strong> be <strong>the</strong> elephant in <strong>the</strong> room as <strong>the</strong><br />
Europeans look with envy on Canadians, whose domestic film funding<br />
system has seen much less severe cuts.<br />
Yorgos Tsourgiannis (Dog<strong>to</strong>oth) of A<strong>the</strong>ns-based Horsefly Productions,<br />
faced with limited financing and zero state support in Greece,<br />
is eyeing a possible Canadian partner for his latest project, <strong>the</strong><br />
sci-fi/fantasy 1901, by direc<strong>to</strong>r Yiannis Veslemes, based on a<br />
script by Tsourgiannis and Dimitris Emmanouilidis.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> idea of a co-production with Canada has always<br />
been a thought in our minds for 1901, even in our first precrisis<br />
talks about <strong>the</strong> project,” <strong>the</strong> Greek producer said.<br />
“Somehow both myself and <strong>the</strong> direc<strong>to</strong>r were warm <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
idea, and we felt that many of <strong>the</strong> requirements of <strong>the</strong> film for<br />
talent and locations could be sought in Canada.”<br />
O<strong>the</strong>r producers at PLT similarly will weigh whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>to</strong> tailor a film<br />
creatively by adding Canadian or European elements <strong>to</strong> fill out a budget.<br />
“Of course, times are <strong>to</strong>ugh everywhere, so I’m curious — having<br />
always been in <strong>the</strong> European market — <strong>to</strong> go for <strong>the</strong> first time <strong>to</strong> a<br />
film market in North America for financing,” said Nicole Gerhards of<br />
Germany’s Niko Film. Elsewhere, Icelandic producer Arnar Knutsson<br />
of Filmus Productions is bringing <strong>to</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> his feature project <strong>The</strong><br />
Traveler, <strong>to</strong> be directed by Oskar Thor Axelsson, where <strong>the</strong> main protagonist<br />
has a soul in three different bodies that live in three different<br />
parts of <strong>the</strong> world.<br />
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“For part of <strong>the</strong> day, he lives<br />
in New York City, but that could<br />
be Toron<strong>to</strong> for that matter,”<br />
Knutsson explained, as he eyes<br />
a possible Canadian co-production<br />
partner.<br />
And Swedish producer Peter<br />
Hiltunen of Illusion Film &<br />
Television has a family film<br />
Hurricane in development as a<br />
Swedish-language project and<br />
will consider making <strong>the</strong> film in<br />
English if <strong>the</strong> right Canadian<br />
partner comes along.<br />
“You could have Canadian<br />
writers, a direc<strong>to</strong>r possibly<br />
and <strong>the</strong> financing, and <strong>the</strong>n we<br />
can do <strong>the</strong> film as a Swedish-<br />
Canadian co-production,”<br />
Hiltunen. Christian Juhl<br />
Lemche, president of European<br />
Film Promotion, said an<br />
<strong>The</strong> Film Farm<br />
just wrapped <strong>the</strong><br />
France-Canada<br />
co-production<br />
Foxfire and is seeking<br />
funding for its<br />
next film during <strong>the</strong><br />
producers lab.<br />
increasingly globalized film industry has producers<br />
looking outside Europe <strong>to</strong> create new s<strong>to</strong>ries with new<br />
co-production partners.<br />
Conversely, PLT is looking this year for Canadian producers<br />
<strong>to</strong> collaborate more with smaller European countries, after long<br />
partnering mainly with U.K. and French producers.<br />
“Canada has co-production treaties with around 28 of <strong>the</strong> member<br />
countries in EFP, and it’s nice <strong>to</strong> see that some of <strong>the</strong> smaller European<br />
countries are represented at PLT this year,” Lemche added.<br />
Of course <strong>the</strong> Canadians, while enjoying a more stable economic<br />
climate, still face dwindling government subsidies at home and are<br />
more than willing <strong>to</strong> extend a warm handshake <strong>to</strong> Europeans who<br />
can supply financing and audiences from abroad.<br />
Stephen Traynor of Toron<strong>to</strong>-based <strong>The</strong> Film Farm has just completed<br />
<strong>the</strong> France-Canada co-production Foxfire, <strong>the</strong> first Englishlanguage<br />
film by French direc<strong>to</strong>r Laurent Cantet, and is now<br />
developing Last Letter From Your Lover, based on <strong>the</strong> British novel<br />
by Jojo Moyes and adapted by Canadian screenwriter Esta Spalding.<br />
“Part of <strong>the</strong> film is shot in London or a European city,” Traynor<br />
Funding is always on <strong>the</strong> table.<br />
If someone writes a check, I<br />
won’t turn it down.” — ANITA SHARMA<br />
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Number of films PLT<br />
partner European Film<br />
Promotion is backing<br />
from 19 countries<br />
said ahead of <strong>the</strong> TIFF industry mixer. “That’s not something we<br />
can do ourselves, so we need <strong>to</strong> find an appropriate partner <strong>to</strong><br />
shoot in Europe.”<br />
Elsewhere, Lauren Grant of Clique Pictures is developing a family<br />
feature, Scavengers, from writers Jason and Sue Bourque.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Canadian producer believes <strong>the</strong> sci-fi flick about a genius<br />
teenage farm boy who meets a robot from outer space is ripe for<br />
European partners <strong>to</strong> complete much-needed visual effects.<br />
“I know, country-wise, that Germany, Romania, Hungary all have<br />
strong visual effects companies. I’m also interested in <strong>the</strong> U.K. and<br />
France,” Grant said, having tapped German visual effects crea<strong>to</strong>rs<br />
for Frost, a Canadian short she produced and is set <strong>to</strong> bow at TIFF.<br />
Cross-border production also figures in Cap Diamant, a film by<br />
writer-direc<strong>to</strong>r Dominic Desjardins that Rayne Zukerman of Zazie<br />
Films is bringing <strong>to</strong> PLT.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> visual effects for <strong>the</strong><br />
Canadian short Frost were<br />
done by a German company.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>the</strong>atrical drama follows an aspiring ac<strong>to</strong>r in Quebec City<br />
who enters a scam with a local art dealer which has <strong>the</strong> ac<strong>to</strong>r pretending<br />
<strong>to</strong> be French <strong>to</strong> manipulate <strong>to</strong>urists.<br />
That could have certain lead roles coming over from France <strong>to</strong><br />
structure a potential Canada-France co-production, Zukerman said.<br />
“It’s all about meeting people and developing relationships,” she<br />
said. “I’m still at <strong>the</strong> stage in my career where it’s hard <strong>to</strong> get projects<br />
off <strong>the</strong> ground, so it’s important <strong>to</strong> forge relationships.”<br />
Elsewhere, Anita Sharma of Studio Entertainment is bringing<br />
Woman in Car <strong>to</strong> PLT, a feature from direc<strong>to</strong>r Vanya Rose <strong>to</strong> be shot<br />
in Montreal and could be ripe for French creative elements.<br />
“Maybe we can find some [French] cast, a music composer,”<br />
Sharma said. “Funding is always on <strong>the</strong> table. If someone writes a<br />
check, I won’t turn it down.”<br />
And Yanick Le<strong>to</strong>urneau of Montreal-based Perepheria Productions<br />
has a PLT slate in search of co-production partners that<br />
includes Vacationship, a <strong>the</strong>atrical comedy written by Cynthia<br />
Knight and <strong>to</strong> be shot mostly in <strong>the</strong> Caribbean, and X Quinien<strong>to</strong>s,<br />
a second feature at <strong>the</strong> treatment stage by direc<strong>to</strong>r Juan Andres<br />
Arrango, who premiered his first film, La Playa, at Cannes in May.<br />
Le<strong>to</strong>urneau said he’s also open <strong>to</strong> becoming a minority partner<br />
on a Europe-Canada co-production.<br />
“That’s what great about such an event — we will be <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r for<br />
a couple days, you get <strong>to</strong> know <strong>the</strong> people better than five-minute<br />
random meetings, and this is organized,” he said.<br />
And if <strong>the</strong> chemistry is right, who knows? Some relationships<br />
formed at PLT could be <strong>the</strong> start of a true cross-border romance. THR<br />
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Looper<br />
An engaging, neatly worked-out time-travel thriller<br />
with Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing<br />
<strong>the</strong> same role By Todd McCarthy<br />
LOOPER IS A CLEVER,<br />
entertaining science fiction<br />
thriller that neatly blurs<br />
<strong>the</strong> line between suicide and<br />
murder. An existential conundrum<br />
wrapped in a narrowly<br />
conceived yarn about victims<br />
sent back in time <strong>to</strong> be bumped<br />
off by assassins called loopers,<br />
Rian Johnson’s third and most<br />
ambitious feature keeps <strong>the</strong><br />
action popping while sustaining<br />
interest in <strong>the</strong> long arc of a s<strong>to</strong>ry<br />
about a man assigned <strong>to</strong> kill <strong>the</strong><br />
30-years-older version of himself.<br />
A lively, high-profile choice<br />
<strong>to</strong> open this year’s Toron<strong>to</strong><br />
International Film Festival, this<br />
Sony release co-starring Bruce<br />
Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt<br />
in <strong>the</strong> same role should chalk up<br />
sizable returns in <strong>the</strong> wake of its<br />
Sept. 28 <strong>the</strong>atrical bow.<br />
Probably <strong>the</strong> shakiest aspect<br />
of Johnson’s original screenplay<br />
is what it asks <strong>the</strong> viewer <strong>to</strong> buy<br />
about <strong>the</strong> future: A mere 62 years<br />
from now, in 2074, time travel<br />
has become possible, but such a<br />
momen<strong>to</strong>us breakthrough is limited<br />
<strong>to</strong> serving as a body-disposal<br />
system. Under <strong>the</strong> prevailing<br />
authority, time jumping is strictly<br />
outlawed because of its potential<br />
for messing with his<strong>to</strong>ry. A large<br />
criminal mob, run by an overlord<br />
called <strong>The</strong> Rainmaker, defiantly<br />
uses it but only as a vehicle for<br />
assassination, with “loopers” — disreputable<br />
gunmen living in 2044 —<br />
laying in wait for people <strong>to</strong> execute<br />
so no bodies or o<strong>the</strong>r evidence can<br />
be found in <strong>the</strong> future.<br />
But <strong>the</strong> premise is established in<br />
nifty fashion; <strong>the</strong> doomed, hooded<br />
with hands bound behind <strong>the</strong>m,<br />
suddenly materialize in an empty<br />
field, and <strong>the</strong> looper immediately<br />
blows <strong>the</strong>m away with his blunderbuss.<br />
One such executioner is Joe<br />
(Gordon-Levitt), a retro-looking<br />
hipster who drives a very old red<br />
Miata and wears ties, “a 20th<br />
century affectation” that offends<br />
his crankily genial boss, Abe (Jeff<br />
Daniels). If he can get out of this<br />
racket, he says he’d like <strong>to</strong> go <strong>to</strong><br />
France, which earns him fur<strong>the</strong>r<br />
scorn from <strong>the</strong> older man; “I’m<br />
from <strong>the</strong> future, you should go <strong>to</strong><br />
China,” he scolds.<br />
Backed by a cynically confessional<br />
voice-over track from Joe<br />
that is not as self-consciously<br />
hardboiled as <strong>the</strong> commentary<br />
Gordon-Levitt <strong>read</strong> for Johnson<br />
in Brick seven years ago, Looper<br />
mostly is set in a seedy metropolis<br />
that doesn’t look all that different<br />
from sketchy neighborhoods in<br />
19<br />
Willis stars as a<br />
man in search of<br />
his wife’s killer.<br />
some big cities <strong>to</strong>day; <strong>the</strong>re are<br />
derelicts, bombed-out buildings,<br />
ruined cars and enough o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
signs of urban ills <strong>to</strong> suggest that,<br />
in Johnson’s view, things will just<br />
gradually decline over <strong>the</strong> next<br />
three decades.<br />
Joe hangs out in clubs, sees<br />
a sexy woman (Piper Perabo)<br />
who works in one of <strong>the</strong>m and<br />
tries <strong>to</strong> help a friend and fellow<br />
looper, Seth (Paul Dano), who’s<br />
imminently endangered by a new<br />
development that’s come down<br />
from on high: <strong>The</strong>y’re “closing<br />
all <strong>the</strong> loops,” meaning <strong>the</strong>y’re<br />
sending <strong>the</strong> “future selves” of all<br />
<strong>the</strong> loopers back <strong>to</strong> be killed.<br />
Almost immediately, Joe is in<br />
<strong>the</strong> same jam. When, a half-hour<br />
in<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> film, he goes <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> field <strong>to</strong><br />
do his next job, <strong>the</strong> guy who pops<br />
up <strong>to</strong> be shot is not hooded. Joe’s<br />
hesitation allows <strong>the</strong> older man <strong>to</strong><br />
escape, and it’s clear who he is: It’s<br />
Joe as his older self. And, for his<br />
failure <strong>to</strong> kill him, young Joe is in<br />
a pile of trouble with Abe and his<br />
“gats,” first-class hired guns.<br />
When <strong>the</strong> two Joes finally sit<br />
down — across from each o<strong>the</strong>r in<br />
a diner in <strong>the</strong> middle of nowhere<br />
— <strong>the</strong>re’s no doubt <strong>the</strong>y’re working<br />
at cross purposes: Young Joe<br />
is determined <strong>to</strong> kill his older<br />
self, while old Joe is dead set on<br />
tracking down and taking out <strong>The</strong><br />
Rainmaker, who would be a little<br />
kid in 2044, so his late wife won’t<br />
die at his hands after all.<br />
<strong>The</strong> biggest problem facing <strong>the</strong><br />
makers of Looper is how <strong>to</strong> make<br />
<strong>the</strong> audience believe that <strong>the</strong> trim,<br />
long-faced Gordon-Levitt could<br />
somehow change so much in 30<br />
years that he would look like <strong>the</strong><br />
thicker-built and shorter-nosed<br />
Willis. <strong>The</strong> solution lay in altering<br />
<strong>the</strong> younger ac<strong>to</strong>r’s appearance,<br />
imperceptibly at first, but gradually<br />
<strong>to</strong> morph his dark eyes in<strong>to</strong><br />
Willis’ gray-green and <strong>to</strong> reshape<br />
his nose and eyebrows, ei<strong>the</strong>r with<br />
makeup or digitally or perhaps<br />
both. At first, <strong>the</strong> effect is a bit<br />
odd, and you can’t quite put your<br />
finger on what’s off; <strong>the</strong>n it feels<br />
downright weird <strong>to</strong> be looking at a<br />
version of Gordon-Levitt who is no<br />
longer <strong>the</strong> ac<strong>to</strong>r you’ve known for a<br />
few years now.<br />
This is especially noticeable<br />
during <strong>the</strong> film’s second half, much<br />
of which takes place at young<br />
Joe’s place of refuge, <strong>the</strong> isolated<br />
home of feisty young farmer and<br />
single mom Sara (Emily Blunt),<br />
who has an unusually gifted son,<br />
Cid (Pierce Gagnon). Even as<br />
<strong>the</strong> temperature is kept at a low<br />
simmer, <strong>the</strong> film’s pace deliberately<br />
is slowed here <strong>to</strong> develop<br />
some intimacy between <strong>the</strong>se two<br />
isolated people and give some<br />
screen time <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> kid, who pretty<br />
obviously will provide <strong>the</strong> reason<br />
for old Joe <strong>to</strong> eventually head for<br />
<strong>the</strong> farm. <strong>The</strong> eventual ending is<br />
great, <strong>the</strong> resolution <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> tricky<br />
time maneuvering very impressively<br />
worked out.<br />
Shot mostly in Louisiana, with<br />
a bit done in Shanghai, <strong>the</strong> film<br />
looks tightly made on a budget<br />
but sacrifices nothing for that; <strong>the</strong><br />
world depicted looks dirty, dangerous<br />
and ramshackle, with a few<br />
high-tech <strong>to</strong>uches here and <strong>the</strong>re.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir physical disparity notwithstanding,<br />
Gordon-Levitt and<br />
Willis both come across strongly,<br />
while Blunt effectively reveals<br />
Sara’s <strong>to</strong>ugh and vulnerable sides.<br />
Daniels is particularly amusing<br />
as <strong>the</strong> garrulous old enforcer<br />
holding down <strong>the</strong> future’s outpost<br />
in <strong>the</strong> past.<br />
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FilmDistrict, Endgame<br />
Entertainment, DMG Entertainment,<br />
Ram Bergman Prods.<br />
Writer-direc<strong>to</strong>r Rian Johnson<br />
Cast Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-<br />
Levitt, Emily Blunt<br />
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REVIEWS<br />
Franco stars as<br />
a wanna-be gangsta<br />
who adopts a posse<br />
of bad girls.<br />
Spring Breakers<br />
James Franco, Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens hit <strong>the</strong> beach and<br />
<strong>the</strong> bong in eternal maverick Harmony Korine’s latest By David Rooney<br />
EVEN BY THE ELASTIC MEASURE OF<br />
James Franco’s unpredictable career,<br />
<strong>the</strong> ac<strong>to</strong>r gives one of his more bizarre<br />
performances in Harmony Korine’s Spring<br />
Breakers. Playing a Florida white-trash<br />
gangsta with beaded cornrows and a<br />
gleaming mouthful of metal, he’s a cross<br />
between Bo Derek in 10 and Richard Kiel in<br />
Moonraker. At one point he sits poolside at<br />
a cheesy white grand piano and sings a Britney<br />
Spears ballad while three coeds in DTF<br />
pants and pink ski masks do an impromptu<br />
dance routine with AK-47s.<br />
Sounds good? Well, like <strong>the</strong> film as a<br />
whole, Franco’s borderline parodistic performance<br />
is interesting only up <strong>to</strong> a point. It<br />
might be one of Korine’s more conventional<br />
narratives, but this is basically a porn-<br />
pulp snort of derision at <strong>the</strong> American<br />
Dream and <strong>the</strong> youthful search for self,<br />
packaged as Beach Blanket Bingo on acid.<br />
It has hypnotic visual style and a dense,<br />
driving soundscape. But it’s also <strong>to</strong>o<br />
mono<strong>to</strong>nous and <strong>the</strong>matically empty <strong>to</strong><br />
be seriously provocative.<br />
More than by Franco, <strong>the</strong> film’s profile will<br />
be boosted by <strong>the</strong> presence of former Disney<br />
Channel cuties Selena Gomez and Vanessa<br />
Hudgens among all <strong>the</strong> bong-hitting, boozing,<br />
coke-snorting, breast-baring, grinding<br />
bodies. “Poetry in motion” is how Franco’s<br />
drug-dealing rapper Alien describes <strong>the</strong><br />
crowd at a beach beer blast. “Bikinis and big<br />
booties, y’all. That’s what life is about.”<br />
Gomez plays <strong>the</strong> pointedly named Faith,<br />
a Christian youth group member who has<br />
somehow remained close <strong>to</strong> three reprobate<br />
skanks she has known since kindergarten:<br />
Candy (Hudgens), Brit (Ashley Benson) and<br />
Cotty (Rachel Korine, <strong>the</strong> writer-direc<strong>to</strong>r’s<br />
wife). Cotty has pink highlights and a sullen<br />
streak, while interchangeable Candy and Brit<br />
are defined only by <strong>the</strong>ir slutty blondness.<br />
Desperate <strong>to</strong> get out of <strong>the</strong>ir dull college<br />
<strong>to</strong>wn but short on cash, <strong>the</strong> bad girls wield<br />
fake guns and hammers <strong>to</strong> hold up a Chicken<br />
Shack, terrorizing <strong>the</strong> cus<strong>to</strong>mers. <strong>The</strong><br />
adrenaline rush <strong>the</strong>y get from this taste of<br />
violent crime hints at what’s <strong>to</strong> come.<br />
Even before <strong>the</strong>y hit Florida, <strong>the</strong> action<br />
time-shuffles Girls Gone Wild/MTV-style<br />
montages of hard-partying college kids in<br />
various stages of inebriation and undress.<br />
Faith seems unsettled when her pals re-enact<br />
<strong>the</strong> robbery for her, but she none<strong>the</strong>less partakes<br />
of <strong>the</strong> proceeds as <strong>the</strong> four girls cruise<br />
around <strong>to</strong>wn on rented scooters.<br />
Here and throughout, voice-over is featured<br />
heavily, much of it vapid stuff about wanting<br />
all this <strong>to</strong> last forever. Korine and edi<strong>to</strong>r<br />
Douglas Crise use repetition in <strong>the</strong> images<br />
and dialogue <strong>to</strong> obsessive effect. Cinema<strong>to</strong>grapher<br />
Benoit Debie’s visuals, with <strong>the</strong>ir sunblasted<br />
exteriors, pink skies, neon splashes<br />
and candy color washes, have a cool allure.<br />
And <strong>the</strong> electronic score by Cliff Martinez and<br />
dubstep musician Skrillex that saturates every<br />
scene (along with a sprinkling of chart hits)<br />
is no less propulsive than Martinez’s music<br />
was in Drive or Contagion. But <strong>the</strong>re’s a nagging<br />
sense that a sliver of substance has been<br />
pumped full of growth hormones in post.<br />
20<br />
When <strong>the</strong> girls are arrested during<br />
a bust at a druggy party, <strong>the</strong>y are hauled in<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir bikini <strong>to</strong>ps and cu<strong>to</strong>ffs before a judge<br />
who orders <strong>the</strong>m <strong>to</strong> pay a fine or spend<br />
ano<strong>the</strong>r night in <strong>the</strong> lockup. “This wasn’t<br />
supposed <strong>to</strong> happen,” says Faith in whispery<br />
voice-over. “This can’t be <strong>the</strong> end of <strong>the</strong><br />
dream.” In fact, it’s <strong>the</strong> beginning of <strong>the</strong><br />
dream, as Korine steers things in a more hallucinogenic<br />
direction.<br />
Alien covers <strong>the</strong> babes’ bail, and while<br />
<strong>the</strong>y question his motives, <strong>the</strong>y climb aboard<br />
his pimped-out sports car. A dim bulb with<br />
lots of swagger, he paints a self-glorifying<br />
picture of himself, flashing wads of cash<br />
and an arsenal of weaponry. In one of many<br />
instances of Korine having fun with metatextual<br />
cine-references, Alien’s flat screen plays<br />
Scarface on a loop.<br />
Faith becomes uncomfortable at his<br />
sleazy crib. After a tense exchange in which<br />
he comes on strong — nicely played by<br />
Gomez — she extricates herself from <strong>the</strong><br />
situation and takes <strong>the</strong> bus home. Alien<br />
insists on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r girls remaining, which<br />
signals <strong>the</strong>ir endangerment. But it turns out<br />
<strong>the</strong>y can more than hold <strong>the</strong>ir own.<br />
Like ducks <strong>to</strong> water, <strong>the</strong>y slip in<strong>to</strong> his<br />
crime crew, provide girl-on-girl entertainment<br />
and flip sexual domination roles with<br />
<strong>the</strong> receptive Alien. It soon becomes apparent<br />
that he has nothing on <strong>the</strong>se girls in<br />
terms of <strong>the</strong>ir appetite for excess and amorality.<br />
Cotty takes off after being wounded<br />
by a bullet from Alien’s turf rival Archie<br />
(Gucci Mane), and Candy and Brit lead <strong>the</strong><br />
charge as <strong>the</strong>y strike back. That <strong>the</strong>y do this<br />
in matching fluoro-yellow bikinis underlines<br />
that <strong>the</strong> bacchanal is primarily a pop-art<br />
exercise — a sour lollipop that loses its flavor.<br />
However it’s intended, <strong>the</strong> attitudinal<br />
posing curbs any capacity <strong>to</strong> shock. From<br />
<strong>the</strong> minute Alien steps in, <strong>the</strong> film becomes<br />
like a more extreme version of one of those<br />
Saturday Night Live video sketches, with<br />
Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg<br />
flaunting exaggerated hip-hop style.<br />
<strong>The</strong> setting and aspects of <strong>the</strong><br />
aes<strong>the</strong>tic will attract comparison <strong>to</strong> this<br />
summer’s Magic Mike. But while Korine<br />
douses <strong>the</strong> air with dreamy melancholia,<br />
Steven Soderbergh’s film came by its underlying<br />
sense of emptiness and restless longing<br />
far more naturally. That said, Spring Breakers<br />
seems bound <strong>to</strong> acquire at least minor<br />
cult status.<br />
Production Companies Muse Productions,<br />
Rabbit Bandini Productions, Radar Pictures<br />
Direc<strong>to</strong>r-screenwriter Harmony Korine<br />
Cast James Franco, Selena Gomez,<br />
Vanessa Hudgens<br />
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Written and Directed by Anand Gandhi<br />
WORLD PREMIERE<br />
Fri, 7 Sep 2.30 pm - Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 7 (Public)<br />
Sat, 8 Sep 1.15 pm - Scotiabank <strong>The</strong>atre 10 (P&I)<br />
Tue, 11 Sep 9.15 pm - TIFF Bell Lightbox 5 (P&I)<br />
Sun, 16 Sep 12.00 pm - Scotiabank <strong>The</strong>atre 4 (Public)<br />
OPENING FILM OF “CITY TO CITY”<br />
TORONTO OFFICE:<br />
Suite 1853, Hyatt Regency Hotel<br />
Hotel Phone: (416) 343-1234<br />
E-mail: market@fortissimo.nl<br />
Fortissimo Films FP D1_090712.indd 1 9/5/12 11:30 AM
REVIEWS<br />
<strong>The</strong> Company You Keep<br />
Robert Redford makes a welcome return <strong>to</strong> double-duty<br />
as direc<strong>to</strong>r and lead ac<strong>to</strong>r By David Rooney<br />
ROBERT REDFORD DOES HIS<br />
most compelling work in<br />
some time as both ac<strong>to</strong>r<br />
and direc<strong>to</strong>r in <strong>The</strong> Company<br />
You Keep, a tense yet admirably<br />
restrained thriller about a fugitive<br />
forced out of hiding after<br />
30 years <strong>to</strong> prove his innocence.<br />
Adapted with clarity and intelligence<br />
by Lem Dobbs from<br />
Neil Gordon’s novel and lent<br />
distinguishing heft by its roster<br />
of screen veterans, this gripping<br />
drama provides an absorbing<br />
reflection on <strong>the</strong> courage and<br />
cost of dissent.<br />
Recalling aspects of Sidney<br />
Lumet’s poignant Running<br />
on Empty from 1988, but with<br />
a more subdued emotional<br />
palette, <strong>the</strong> film opens with<br />
vintage-style news footage<br />
detailing charges against members<br />
of radical antiwar group <strong>the</strong><br />
Wea<strong>the</strong>r Underground in <strong>the</strong><br />
early 1970s for plotting <strong>to</strong> blow<br />
up buildings in multiple U.S.<br />
cities. A second report follows,<br />
attributing responsibility <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
same group for a Michigan bank<br />
robbery during which a security<br />
guard was killed. While <strong>the</strong><br />
robbers were identified, only one<br />
was apprehended.<br />
Hotel Transylvania<br />
A scarily unfunny animated monster movie<br />
that goes awry right off <strong>the</strong> bat<br />
By Michael Rechtshaffen<br />
T HE<br />
SECOND FEATURE IN AS MANY<br />
months <strong>to</strong> contain animated zombies<br />
(with Tim Bur<strong>to</strong>n’s Frankenweenie<br />
lurking just around <strong>the</strong> corner), Hotel Transylvania<br />
checks in as an anemic example of<br />
pure concept over precious little content.<br />
Despite <strong>the</strong> proven talents of first-time<br />
feature direc<strong>to</strong>r Genndy Tartakovsky<br />
(Dexter’s Labora<strong>to</strong>ry), writers Peter Baynham<br />
(Arthur Christmas) and SNL vet Robert<br />
Smigel and a voice cast headed by Adam<br />
Sandler and Andy Samberg, <strong>the</strong> collaboration<br />
falls flat virtually from <strong>the</strong> get-go,<br />
serving up half-hearted sight gags that have<br />
a habit of landing with an ominous thud.<br />
Back in <strong>the</strong> present, Sharon<br />
Solarz (Susan Sarandon), who<br />
was involved in <strong>the</strong> robbery<br />
and has been living in hiding<br />
as a Vermont housewife in <strong>the</strong><br />
decades since, is preparing<br />
<strong>to</strong> turn herself in <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> FBI<br />
when she is arrested entering<br />
New York state. Coverage from<br />
aggressive young Albany newspaper<br />
reporter Ben Shepard<br />
(Shia LaBeouf) links her <strong>to</strong> local<br />
civil rights lawyer Jim Grant<br />
(Redford), who declined <strong>to</strong> take<br />
Solarz’s case.<br />
Eager <strong>to</strong> impress his prickly<br />
edi<strong>to</strong>r (Stanley Tucci), Ben<br />
exploits his access <strong>to</strong> Diana<br />
(Anna Kendrick), a college<br />
hookup now working for <strong>the</strong><br />
bureau. Despite warnings from<br />
her boss Cornelius (Terrence<br />
Howard) <strong>to</strong> back off, Ben<br />
persists, digging for insights.<br />
His legwork reveals that while<br />
Jim has long been a respected<br />
community member, raising his<br />
11-year-old daughter Isabel (Jacqueline<br />
Evancho) alone since <strong>the</strong><br />
death of his wife in an accident<br />
a year earlier, no record of him<br />
exists before 1979. Putting two<br />
and two <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r, Ben discovers,<br />
just ahead of <strong>the</strong> feds, that<br />
22<br />
LaBeouf plays a young<br />
reporter who delves in<strong>to</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> mysterious past of a<br />
civil rights lawyer.<br />
Jim is Nick Sloan, ano<strong>the</strong>r of <strong>the</strong><br />
Michigan robbers.<br />
This establishing action is set<br />
up with methodical efficiency<br />
in Dobbs’ screenplay, gaining<br />
momentum when Jim/Nick<br />
whisks Isabel out of <strong>to</strong>wn and<br />
in<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> care of his bro<strong>the</strong>r (Chris<br />
Cooper) just as <strong>the</strong> FBI is closing<br />
in. Meanwhile, Ben continues <strong>to</strong><br />
look for neat answers <strong>to</strong> messy<br />
questions. But a prison interview<br />
with Sharon gives him some<br />
understanding of <strong>the</strong> commitment<br />
and idealism of <strong>the</strong><br />
’70s radicals. This affecting<br />
scene is played with perspicacity,<br />
<strong>to</strong>ughness and compassion<br />
by Sarandon.<br />
Propelled by ano<strong>the</strong>r moody<br />
score from Cliff Martinez<br />
(Drive, Contagion) that adds a<br />
contemporary edge <strong>to</strong> Redford’s<br />
solidly conventional style, <strong>the</strong><br />
remainder of <strong>the</strong> film plays out<br />
in pursuit mode.<br />
While it provides for some<br />
Being given a public airing at <strong>the</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong><br />
International Film Festival ahead of its<br />
official Sept. 28 opening, <strong>the</strong> film could<br />
benefit initially from a monster marketing<br />
push from Sony, but it’s unlikely <strong>the</strong> “No<br />
Vacancy” sign will be lit for long.<br />
Assuming an unsteady Transylvanian<br />
accent which, like his bat wings, tends <strong>to</strong><br />
flit in and out of <strong>the</strong> picture, Sandler’s<br />
overprotective daddy Dracula is having<br />
trouble shielding his daughter Mavis (Selena<br />
Gomez) from outside elements on <strong>the</strong> eve<br />
of her 118th birthday. Determined <strong>to</strong> shut<br />
himself off from those elements after <strong>the</strong><br />
death of his wife a century or so earlier at<br />
<strong>the</strong> hands of an angry mob, Dracula had<br />
constructed a refuge of an exclusive resort<br />
where he and his monstrous ilk could feel<br />
free <strong>to</strong> be <strong>the</strong>mselves.<br />
For <strong>the</strong> most part, <strong>the</strong>re’s just a lot of<br />
Dracula shields<br />
his daughter in<br />
a monsters-only<br />
hideout<br />
passing commentary on <strong>the</strong><br />
journalistic process and <strong>the</strong> slow<br />
death of print media, making <strong>the</strong><br />
ambitious reporter such a driving<br />
figure perhaps mutes <strong>the</strong> focus<br />
a little. LaBeouf acquits himself<br />
well in <strong>the</strong> role. But tracking<br />
Ben’s slow-blooming integrity is<br />
a somewhat prosaic de<strong>to</strong>ur in <strong>the</strong><br />
concluding scenes, occasioning<br />
some speechy wisdom from Nick<br />
when <strong>the</strong>y finally meet again.<br />
<strong>The</strong> s<strong>to</strong>rytelling is none<strong>the</strong>less<br />
robust and <strong>the</strong>matically<br />
rich, streng<strong>the</strong>ned by a fine cast.<br />
Redford has done this kind of<br />
earnest man of conscience countless<br />
times before, but he brings<br />
such gravitas and thoughtfulness<br />
<strong>to</strong> play that he keeps us firmly in<br />
Nick’s corner.<br />
Production companies Voltage<br />
Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises<br />
Cast Robert Redford, Shia<br />
LaBeouf, Julie Christie<br />
Direc<strong>to</strong>r: Robert Redford<br />
dashing about <strong>the</strong> hotel’s cavernous hallways<br />
as <strong>the</strong> assembled voice cast attempts <strong>to</strong><br />
lend some personality <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> underdeveloped<br />
characters.<br />
Production companies Sony Pictures<br />
Animation<br />
Direc<strong>to</strong>r Genndy Tartakovsky<br />
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FESTIVAL SCREENING GUIDE<br />
TODAY<br />
8:30 White Elephant<br />
(P&I) Special Presentation<br />
Cinema 3<br />
8:45 <strong>The</strong> Pervert’s Guide <strong>to</strong><br />
Ideology (P&I) Mavericks<br />
Scotiabank 3<br />
9:00 Three Worlds (P&I)<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Scotiabank 8; Dredd<br />
3D (P&I) Midnight Madness<br />
Scotiabank 13; Barbara<br />
(P&I) Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Cinema 2<br />
9:15 Short Cuts Canada:<br />
Programme #1 - 2012 (P&I)<br />
Short Cuts Canada; Cinema<br />
4 - Paul & Leah Atkinson<br />
Family Cinema; Lore (P&I)<br />
Special Presentation Scotiabank<br />
2; Fill <strong>the</strong> Void (P&I)<br />
Discovery Scotiabank 11;<br />
Clandestine Childhood<br />
(P&I) Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Scotiabank 6<br />
9:30 Spring Breakers (P&I)<br />
Special Presentation Scotiabank<br />
4; Midnight’s Children<br />
(P&I) Gala Presentation<br />
Cinema 1; Lunarcy! (P&I)<br />
TIFF Docs Scotiabank 9<br />
9:45 <strong>The</strong>rese Desqueyroux<br />
(P&I) Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 10; S<strong>to</strong>ries<br />
We Tell (P&I) Special<br />
Presentation Scotiabank<br />
1; God Loves Caviar (P&I)<br />
Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Cinema 5 - NBC<br />
Universal Cinema<br />
10:00 Pusher (P&I) Vanguard<br />
Scotiabank 5; Jackie<br />
(P&I) Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Scotiabank 7<br />
10:45 <strong>The</strong> Interval (P&I)<br />
Discovery Cinema 3<br />
11:15 Post Tenebras Lux<br />
(P&I) Wavelengths Scotiabank<br />
8; Hotel Transylvania<br />
(P&I)TIFF Kids Scotiabank 13<br />
11:30 Out in <strong>the</strong> Dark (P&I)<br />
Discovery Scotiabank 11;<br />
No (P&I) Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 3; On<br />
<strong>the</strong> Road (Public) Special<br />
Presentation <strong>The</strong> Bloor Hot<br />
Docs Cinema<br />
11:45 Mekong Hotel<br />
preceded by Big in Vietnam<br />
(P&I) Wavelengths<br />
Scotiabank 9; London - <strong>The</strong><br />
Modern Babylon (P&I)<br />
TIFF Docs Scotiabank 2;<br />
Imagine (P&I) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema<br />
Scotiabank 6<br />
12:00 <strong>The</strong> We and <strong>the</strong> I<br />
(P&I) Vanguard Cinema 2;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Central Park Five (P&I)<br />
TIFF Docs Scotiabank 4;<br />
Ernest & Célestine (P&I)<br />
TIFF Kids Cinema 4 - Paul<br />
& Leah Atkinson Family<br />
Cinema; A Few Hours<br />
of Spring (P&I) Special<br />
Presentation Scotiabank 10;<br />
Rust and Bone (Public)<br />
Special Presentation<br />
Ryerson <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
12:15 When Night Falls<br />
(P&I) Wavelengths Scotiabank<br />
5; Reincarnated (P&I)<br />
TIFF Docs Scotiabank 1<br />
12:30 <strong>The</strong> End of Time (P&I)<br />
Masters Scotiabank 7; Far<br />
Out Isn’t Far Enough: <strong>The</strong><br />
Tomi Ungerer S<strong>to</strong>ry (P&I)<br />
TIFF Docs Cinema 5 - NBC<br />
Universal Cinema; <strong>The</strong> War<br />
of <strong>the</strong> Volcanoes: Bergman<br />
& Magnani preceded by<br />
Stromboli (Public) TIFF<br />
Cinema<strong>the</strong>que Cinema 3<br />
12:45 <strong>The</strong> Perks of Being<br />
a Wallflower (P&I) Special<br />
Presentation Cinema 1;<br />
Blancanieves (P&I) Discovery<br />
Scotiabank 8<br />
14:00 Watch<strong>to</strong>wer (P&I)<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Scotiabank 5; Rebelle<br />
(P&I) Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 3; Paradise:<br />
Love (P&I) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema Cinema 4 -<br />
Paul & Leah Atkinson Family<br />
Cinema; Crimes of Mike<br />
Recket (P&I) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema Scotiabank 9;<br />
Children of Sarajevo (Public)<br />
Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Cineplex Yonge &<br />
Dundas 3<br />
14:15 Picture <strong>Day</strong> (P&I)<br />
Discovery Scotiabank 6; Camp<br />
14: Total Control Zone (P&I)<br />
TIFF Docs Scotiabank 10<br />
14:30 <strong>The</strong> Sessions (P&I)<br />
Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 1; Home Again<br />
(P&I) Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Scotiabank 11; Dangerous<br />
Liaisons (P&I) Gala<br />
Presentation Scotiabank 4;<br />
Ship of <strong>The</strong>seus (Public)<br />
City <strong>to</strong> City Cineplex Yonge &<br />
Dundas 7<br />
14:45 <strong>The</strong> Fifth Season<br />
(P&I) Wavelengths<br />
Cinema 5 - NBC Universal<br />
Cinema; Sightseers (P&I)<br />
Vanguard Scotiabank 2<br />
15:00 Something In <strong>The</strong><br />
Air (P&I) Masters Cinema<br />
A drug dealer<br />
helps four college<br />
girls finance <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
party time in<br />
Spring Breakers.<br />
2; Augustine (P&I) Discovery<br />
Scotiabank 7; <strong>The</strong><br />
Gatekeepers (Public) TIFF<br />
Docs <strong>The</strong> Bloor Hot Docs<br />
Cinema; Paradise: Love<br />
(Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema Cineplex<br />
Yonge & Dundas 6; Imogene<br />
(Public) Special Presentation<br />
Ryerson <strong>The</strong>atre; Kinshasa<br />
Kids (Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema Cineplex<br />
Yonge & Dundas 9<br />
15:15 <strong>The</strong> Great Kilapy<br />
(Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema Cineplex<br />
Yonge & Dundas 2<br />
16:00 After <strong>the</strong> Battle<br />
(Extended Q&A - 2nd Public)<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Cinema 3<br />
16:15 Blackbird (P&I)<br />
Discovery Scotiabank<br />
9; Artifact (P&I) TIFF Docs<br />
Cinema 1<br />
16:30 <strong>The</strong> Sapphires<br />
(P&I) Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 3; Bestiaire (P&I)<br />
Wavelengths Cinema<br />
4 - Paul & Leah Atkinson<br />
Family Cinema<br />
16:45 <strong>The</strong> Suicide Shop<br />
(P&I) Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 1; A Liar’s Au<strong>to</strong>biography:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Untrue<br />
S<strong>to</strong>ry of Monty Python’s<br />
Graham Chapman<br />
(P&I) Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 2<br />
17:00 Mushrooming (P&I)<br />
Discovery Cinema 5 - NBC<br />
Universal Cinema; John Dies<br />
at <strong>the</strong> End (P&I) Midnight<br />
Madness Scotiabank 11; Dormant<br />
Beauty (P&I) Special<br />
Presentation Scotiabank 4<br />
17:15 Student (P&I) Masters<br />
Scotiabank 7<br />
24<br />
17:30 Kon-tiki (Public)<br />
Special Presentation Winter<br />
Garden <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
17:45 Three Kids preceded<br />
by Peripeteia (Public)<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 3<br />
18:00 <strong>The</strong> Place Beyond<br />
<strong>the</strong> Pines (Public) Special<br />
Presentation Princess of<br />
Wales; <strong>The</strong> Perverts Guide <strong>to</strong><br />
Ideology (Public) Mavericks<br />
Isabel Bader <strong>The</strong>atre; S<strong>to</strong>ries<br />
We Tell (Public) Special Presentation<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bloor Hot Docs<br />
Cinema; Spring Breakers<br />
(Public) Special Presentation<br />
Ryerson <strong>The</strong>atre; Shanghai<br />
(Public) City <strong>to</strong> City<br />
Cinema 2; Call Girl (Public)<br />
Discovery Cineplex Yonge &<br />
Dundas 7; Anna Karenina<br />
(35mm Elgin) Special Presentation<br />
Visa Screening Room<br />
(Elgin); All That Matters is<br />
Past (Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema Cineplex Yonge<br />
& Dundas 9<br />
18:15 Janeane From Des<br />
Moines (Public) Discovery<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2<br />
18:30 Zabana! (Public)<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Cinema 4 - Paul & Leah<br />
Atkinson Family Cinema;<br />
Roman Polanski: Odd<br />
Man Out (Public) TIFF Docs<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 6;<br />
Out in <strong>the</strong> Dark (Public)<br />
Discovery Cineplex Yonge &<br />
Dundas 10; Argo (Public)<br />
Gala Presentation Roy<br />
Thomson Hall<br />
18:45 Berberian Sound<br />
Studio (P&I) Vanguard<br />
Scotiabank 9; <strong>The</strong> We and<br />
<strong>the</strong> I (Public) Vanguard<br />
Scotiabank 1; Reincarnated<br />
(Public) TIFF Docs Cinema 1;<br />
Gone Fishing (Public)<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Scotiabank 2<br />
19:00 Reality (P&I) Special<br />
Presentation Scotiabank 3;<br />
Wavelengths #1 - 2012:<br />
Under a Pacific Sun<br />
(Public) Wavelengths Jackman<br />
Hall (AGO)<br />
19:15 Road North (P&I)<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Cinema 5 - NBC Universal<br />
Cinema; Short Cuts Canada:<br />
Programme #1 - 2012<br />
(Public) Short Cuts Canada<br />
Cinema 3<br />
19:30 Mumbai’s King (P&I)<br />
City <strong>to</strong> City Scotiabank 11;<br />
Sleepers Wake (Public)<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Scotiabank 4<br />
20:45 <strong>The</strong> Holy Quarternity<br />
(Public) Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Cineplex Yonge &<br />
Dundas 2<br />
21:00 <strong>The</strong> Master (Public)<br />
Special Presentation<br />
Princess of Wales; <strong>The</strong> Deep<br />
(Public) Special Presentation<br />
Cinema 2; Pusher<br />
(Public) Vanguard <strong>The</strong> Bloor<br />
Hot Docs Cinema; Men At<br />
Lunch (Public) TIFF Docs<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9;<br />
Him, Here, After (Public)<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 6;<br />
Ginger and Rosa (Public)<br />
Special Presentation Visa<br />
Screening Room (Elgin); 7<br />
Boxes (Public) Discovery<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 3<br />
21:15 Wasteland (Public)<br />
Discovery Scotiabank 2; Thy<br />
Womb (Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema Cinema 4 - Paul<br />
& Leah Atkinson Family<br />
Cinema; Fidaï (Public) TIFF<br />
Docs Cineplex Yonge<br />
& Dundas 10<br />
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FESTIVAL SCREENING GUIDE<br />
21:30 Blondie (P&I)<br />
Vanguard Scotiabank 11;<br />
What Maisie Knew (Public)<br />
Gala Presentation Roy<br />
Thomson Hall; Like Someone<br />
in Love (Public) Masters<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7;<br />
How <strong>to</strong> Make Money Selling<br />
Drugs (Public) TIFF Docs<br />
Scotiabank 1; Frances Ha<br />
(Public) Special Presentation<br />
Ryerson <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
21:45 Shahid (P&I) City <strong>to</strong><br />
City Cinema 5 - NBC Universal<br />
Cinema; <strong>The</strong> Land of Hope<br />
(Public) Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Winter Garden <strong>The</strong>atre;<br />
Picture <strong>Day</strong> (Public) Discovery<br />
Isabel Bader <strong>The</strong>atre;<br />
Perret in France and Algeria<br />
(Public) Wavelengths Cinema<br />
3; Me and You (Public)<br />
Masters Scotiabank 3; Dead<br />
Europe (Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema Cinema 1<br />
22:00 In <strong>the</strong> Name of Love<br />
(Public) Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Scotiabank 4<br />
23:59 Seven Psychopaths<br />
(Public) Midnight Madness<br />
Ryerson <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
TOMORROW<br />
8:30 <strong>The</strong> Place Beyond <strong>the</strong><br />
Pines (P&I) Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 2<br />
8:45 What Maisie Knew (P&I)<br />
Gala Presentation Scotiabank<br />
1; Roman Polanski: Odd Man<br />
Out (P&I) TIFF Docs Cinema 3<br />
9:00 <strong>The</strong> Master (P&I) Special<br />
Presentation Cinema 1; Perret<br />
in France and Algeria (P&I)<br />
Wavelengths Scotiabank 6;<br />
My Awkward Sexual Adventure<br />
(P&I) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema Cinema 4 -<br />
Paul & Leah Atkinson Family<br />
Cinema; In <strong>the</strong> Name of Love<br />
(P&I) Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Scotiabank 8; Reincarnated<br />
(Public) TIFF Docs<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bloor Hot Docs Cinema;<br />
Out in <strong>the</strong> Dark (Public)<br />
Discovery Cineplex Yonge &<br />
Dundas 6<br />
9:15 Zabana! (P&I) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema<br />
Cinema 5 - NBC Universal<br />
Cinema; <strong>The</strong> Deep (P&I)<br />
Special Presentation Scotiabank<br />
10; Quartet (P&I)<br />
Special Presentation<br />
Cinema; Love is All You Need<br />
(P&I) Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 13; Ginger and<br />
Rosa (P&I) Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 3; Paradise:<br />
Love (Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema Isabel<br />
Bader <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
9:30 Mea Maxima Culpa:<br />
Silence in <strong>the</strong> House of God<br />
(P&I) TIFF Docs Scotiabank 9;<br />
Janeane From Des Moines<br />
(P&I) Discovery Scotiabank<br />
4; Shanghai (Public) City <strong>to</strong><br />
City Cineplex Yonge & Dundas<br />
7; Me and You (Public)<br />
Masters Cineplex Yonge &<br />
Dundas 2; Far Out Isnt Far<br />
Enough: <strong>The</strong> Tomi Ungerer<br />
S<strong>to</strong>ry (Public) TIFF Docs<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9<br />
9:45 Gone Fishing (P&I)<br />
Contemporary World Cineman<br />
Scotiabank 7; Children<br />
of Sarajevo (Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 3<br />
10:00 Rhino Season<br />
(P&I) Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 11<br />
<strong>The</strong> documentary<br />
How <strong>to</strong> Make Money<br />
Selling Drugs<br />
features interviews<br />
with dealers,<br />
prison guards and<br />
anti-drug lobbyists.<br />
10:30 Museum Hours (P&I)<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Scotiabank 5<br />
10:45 Inescapable (P&I)<br />
Gala Presentation Cinema 3<br />
11:00 Frances Ha (P&I)<br />
Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 1; <strong>The</strong> Place<br />
Beyond <strong>the</strong> Pines (Public)<br />
Special Presentation<br />
Ryerson <strong>The</strong>atre; Argo (Public)<br />
Gala Presentation Visa<br />
Screening Room (Elgin)<br />
11:15 Short Cuts Canada:<br />
Programme #2 - 2012 (P&I)<br />
Short Cuts Canada Cinema 4<br />
- Paul & Leah Atkinson Family<br />
Cinema; Dead Europe<br />
(P&I) Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Scotiabank 3<br />
11:30 No Place on Earth<br />
(P&I) TIFF Docs Scotiabank<br />
4; Night Across <strong>the</strong> Street<br />
(P&I) Masters Scotiabank 6<br />
11:45 <strong>The</strong> Deflowering of<br />
Eva van End (P&I) Discovery<br />
Scotiabank 9; Lines of<br />
Welling<strong>to</strong>n (P&I) Special<br />
Presentation Cinema 5 - NBC<br />
Universal Cinema; <strong>The</strong> We<br />
and <strong>the</strong> I (Public) Vanguard<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 6;<br />
S<strong>to</strong>ries We Tell (Public)<br />
Special Presentation<br />
Cinema 2<br />
12:00 When <strong>Day</strong> Breaks<br />
(P&I) Masters Scotiabank 8;<br />
Everybody Has a Plan (P&I)<br />
Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 13; 9.79*<br />
(Public) TIFF Docs<strong>The</strong><br />
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema;<br />
Frances Ha (Public) Special<br />
Presentation Winter<br />
Garden <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
26<br />
12:15 Twice Born (P&I)<br />
Gala Presentation Scotiabank<br />
2; <strong>The</strong> Holy Quaternity<br />
(P&I) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema Scotiabank<br />
11; <strong>The</strong> Great Kilapy (Public)<br />
Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Cineplex Yonge<br />
& Dundas 10; <strong>The</strong> End of<br />
Time (Public) Masters<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2;<br />
Anna Karenina (Public)<br />
Special Presentation Isabel<br />
Bader <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
12:30 90 Minutes (P&I)<br />
Vanguard Scotiabank 7;<br />
Dredd 3D (Public) Midnight<br />
Madness Cineplex Yonge &<br />
Dundas 7; All That Matters<br />
is Past (Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9<br />
12:45 Igor & <strong>the</strong> Cranes<br />
Journey (Public) TIFF Kids<br />
Cinema 3; What Maisie<br />
Knew (Public) Gala Presentation<br />
Cinema 1; Three Kids<br />
preceded by Peripeteia<br />
(Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema Cineplex<br />
Yonge & Dundas 3<br />
13:00 Gebo and <strong>the</strong><br />
Shadow (P&I) Masters<br />
Scotiabank 1; Tabu<br />
(Public) Wavelengths<br />
Jackman Hall (AGO)<br />
13:15 Ship of <strong>The</strong>seus (P&I)<br />
City <strong>to</strong> City Scotiabank 10;<br />
Short Cuts Canada: Programme<br />
#1 - 2012 (Public)<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Cinema 4 - Paul & Leah<br />
Atkinson Family Cinema<br />
13:30 Thy Womb (P&I)<br />
Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Scotiabank 5;<br />
<strong>The</strong>rmae Romae (Public)<br />
Gala Presentation Roy<br />
Thomson Hall<br />
13:45 Outrage Beyond (P&I)<br />
Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 3<br />
14:00 How <strong>to</strong> Make Money<br />
Selling Drugs (P&I) TIFF<br />
Docs Scotiabank 4; Gangs<br />
of Wasseypur: Part One<br />
(P&I) City <strong>to</strong> City Scotiabank<br />
9; 7 Boxes (P&I) Discovery<br />
Scotiabank 6<br />
14:15 Wasteland (P&I)<br />
Discovery Scotiabank 11; All<br />
That You Possess (P&I)<br />
Masters Scotiabank 8<br />
14:30 More Than Honey<br />
(P&I) TIFF Docs Scotiabank<br />
13; West of Memphis<br />
(Public) Mavericks Ryerson<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre; Much Ado About<br />
Nothing (Public) Special<br />
Presentation Visa Screening<br />
Room (Elgin); Hotel<br />
Transylvania (Public)<br />
TIFF Kids Princess of Wales<br />
15:00 <strong>The</strong> Walls of Dakar<br />
preceded by Joe Ouakam<br />
(P&I) TIFF Docs Cinema<br />
5 - NBC Universal Cinema;<br />
End of Watch (P&I) Special<br />
Presentation Scotiabank 2;<br />
Call Girl (P&I) Discovery<br />
Scotiabank 7; Satellite<br />
Boy (Public) Discovery<br />
Cinema 2; Imogene (Public)<br />
Special Presentation <strong>The</strong><br />
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema<br />
15:15 <strong>The</strong> Color of <strong>the</strong> Chameleon<br />
(Public) Discovery<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas<br />
2; Jackie (Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7;<br />
First Comes Love (Public)<br />
TIFF Docs Cineplex Yonge &<br />
Dundas 10; Blancanieves<br />
(Public) Discovery Cinema<br />
3; <strong>The</strong> Master (Public)<br />
Special Presentation<br />
Cinema 1<br />
15:30 <strong>The</strong> Brass Teapot<br />
(Public) Discovery Isabel<br />
Bader <strong>The</strong>atre; Seven<br />
Psychopaths (Public) Midnight<br />
Madness Scotiabank<br />
1; Picture <strong>Day</strong> (Public)<br />
Discovery Cineplex Yonge<br />
& Dundas 6; Men at Lunch<br />
(Public) TIFF Docs Cineplex<br />
Yonge & Dundas 9<br />
15:45 Comrade Kim Goes<br />
Flying (Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas<br />
3; Bitter Ash (Public) TIFF<br />
Cinema<strong>the</strong>que Cinema<br />
4 - Paul & Leah Atkinson<br />
Family Cinema<br />
16:00 differently, Molussia<br />
(Public) Wavelengths Jackman<br />
Hall (AGO)<br />
16:15 Hannah Arendt (P&I)<br />
Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 3<br />
16:30 A Late Quartet (P&I)<br />
Special Presentation Scotiabank<br />
4; Everybody Has a<br />
Plan (Public WG + S2)<br />
Special Presentation Winter<br />
Garden <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
16:45 Come Out and Play<br />
(P&I) Midnight Madness<br />
Scotiabank 11<br />
17:15 Gangs of Wasseypur:<br />
Part Two (P&I) City <strong>to</strong> City<br />
Scotiabank 9; Baby Blues<br />
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(P&I) Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Cinema 5 - NBC<br />
Universal Cinema<br />
18:00 <strong>The</strong> Land of Hope<br />
(P&I) Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Scotiabank 7;<br />
Cloud Atlas (P&I) Special<br />
Presentation Scotiabank 2;<br />
Road North (Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9;<br />
Painless (Public) Vanguard<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bloor Hot Docs Cinema;<br />
Inch’Allah (Public) Special<br />
Presentation Cinema 2;<br />
Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a<br />
Pimp (Public) TIFF Docs<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas<br />
7; Cloud Atlas (Public)<br />
Special Presentation Princess<br />
of Wales; Amour (Public)<br />
Masters Visa Screening<br />
Room (Elgin)<br />
18:15 <strong>The</strong> Perks of Being<br />
a Wallflower (Public)<br />
Special Presentation<br />
Ryerson <strong>The</strong>atre; <strong>The</strong> Land<br />
of Eb (Public) Discovery<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2;<br />
Short Cuts Canada: Programme<br />
#2 - 2012 (Public)<br />
Short Cuts Canada<br />
Cinema 4 - Paul & Leah<br />
Atkinson Family Cinema;<br />
Kon-tiki (Public) Special<br />
Presentation Cineplex Yonge<br />
& Dundas 6<br />
18:30 <strong>The</strong> Lebanese Rocket<br />
Society (Public) Wavelengths<br />
Cinema 3; Silver<br />
Linings Playbook (Public)<br />
Gala Presentation Roy<br />
Thomson Hall; Night Across<br />
<strong>the</strong> Street (Public) Masters<br />
Isabel Bader <strong>The</strong>atre;<br />
Lunarcy! (Public) TIFF Docs<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas<br />
10; Capital (Public) Special<br />
Presentation Scotiabank 1<br />
18:45 Love, Marilyn (P&I)<br />
Gala Presentation Scotiabank<br />
4; Everyday (Public)<br />
Masters Cinema 1<br />
19:00 American Masters:<br />
Inventing David Geffen<br />
(P&I) Mavericks Scotiabank<br />
11; <strong>The</strong> Girl From <strong>the</strong> South<br />
(Public) TIFF Docs Jackman<br />
Hall (AGO); <strong>The</strong> End<br />
(Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema Scotiabank<br />
3; Les Nuits avec <strong>The</strong>odore<br />
(Public) Discovery<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 3<br />
19:30 Juvenile Offender<br />
(P&I) Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Cinema 5 - NBC<br />
Universal Cinema<br />
20:00 <strong>The</strong> Last Supper<br />
(Public) Special Presentation<br />
Winter Garden <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
21:00 Peaches Does<br />
Herself (P&I) Vanguard<br />
Scotiabank 9; <strong>The</strong> Attack<br />
(Public) Special Presentation<br />
Cinema 2; Thanks for<br />
Sharing (Public) Special<br />
Presentation Ryerson<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre; Something in <strong>the</strong><br />
Air (Public) Masters Visa<br />
Screening Room (Elgin);<br />
London - <strong>The</strong> Modern Babylon<br />
(Public) TIFF Docs <strong>The</strong><br />
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; 90<br />
Minutes (Public) Vanguard<br />
27<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2;<br />
Roman Polanski: Odd Man<br />
Out (Public) TIFF Docs<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 10<br />
21:15 <strong>The</strong> Crema<strong>to</strong>r (Public)<br />
Contemporary World Cinema<br />
Cinema 4 - Paul & Leah<br />
Atkinson Family Cinema;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Act of Killing (Public)<br />
TIFF Docs Scotiabank<br />
4; Wasteland (Public)<br />
Discovery Cineplex Yonge<br />
& Dundas 9<br />
21:30 Aftershock (P&I)<br />
Midnight Madness Scotiabank<br />
11; Yellow (Public)<br />
Special Presentation<br />
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas<br />
7; Watch<strong>to</strong>wer (Public)<br />
Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Cinema 3; <strong>The</strong><br />
Reluctant Fundamentalist<br />
(Public) Gala Presentation<br />
Roy Thomson Hall; Shores<br />
of Hope (Public) Contemporary<br />
World Cinema<br />
Scotiabank 2; Once Upon a<br />
Time Was I, Veronica (Public)<br />
Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Cineplex Yonge &<br />
Dundas 3<br />
21:45 Eat Sleep Die (P&I)<br />
Discovery Cinema 5 -<br />
NBC Universal Cinema;<br />
Underground (Public)<br />
Contemporary World<br />
Cinema Cineplex Yonge &<br />
Dundas 6; <strong>The</strong> Secret Disco<br />
Revolution (Public) TIFF<br />
Docs Scotiabank 3; Tai Chi<br />
0 (Public) Special Presentation<br />
Scotiabank 1; Mumbais<br />
King (Public) City <strong>to</strong> City<br />
Isabel Bader <strong>The</strong>atre; End of<br />
Watch (Public) Special Presentation<br />
Princess of<br />
Wales; A Liar’s Au<strong>to</strong>biography:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Untrue S<strong>to</strong>ry<br />
of Monty Python’s Graham<br />
Chapman (Public) Special<br />
Presentation Cinema 1<br />
22:00 Wavelengths 2:<br />
Documenta (Public) Wavelengths<br />
Jackman Hall (AGO)<br />
23:59 No One Lives (Public)<br />
Midnight Madness Ryerson<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre THR<br />
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TORONTO MEMORIES<br />
1929<br />
CANADIAN GOLD<br />
She was born Gladys Marie Smith in Toron<strong>to</strong>, but it was as Mary Pickford<br />
that she would become “America’s Swee<strong>the</strong>art.” In 1929 she became<br />
<strong>the</strong> first Canadian <strong>to</strong> win an Oscar, for her starring role in Coquette.<br />
Pickford, pictured here with MPAA president William C. DeMille, cut<br />
her trademark ringlets for <strong>the</strong> role and such was her star power that<br />
<strong>the</strong> no-nonsense new bob was front-page news across America.<br />
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EVERETT COLLECTION
A FILM BY Joana Hadjithomas AND Khalil Joreige<br />
LEBANESE<br />
R O C K E T<br />
S O C I E T Y<br />
THE<br />
<strong>The</strong> strange tale of <strong>the</strong> lebanese space race<br />
Supported through<br />
Doha Film Institute’s<br />
Middle East and North<br />
Africa (MENA) Film<br />
Financing Grants.<br />
Toron<strong>to</strong> International Film Festival Screenings<br />
Sat, 08/09 6:30 PM TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 – Public<br />
Sun, 09/09 12:00 PM Cinema 5 – NBC Universal Cinema – Press & Industry<br />
Mon, 10/09 2:30 PM Cineplex Odeon Yonge &Dundas 8 – Public<br />
Wed, 12/09 9:30 AM Scotiabank 5 (Scotiabank <strong>The</strong>atre) – Press & Industry<br />
Sat, 15/09 6:30 PM TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 – Public<br />
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