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Metropolitan takes Land
of Hope for France
Zellweger
To Helm
First Film
By Tatiana Siegel
RENEE ZELLWEGER
is moving behind
the camera.
The actress will make her
directorial debut with the
comedy 4 1/2 Minutes. Zellweger
also will star
alongside Johnny
Knoxville in the
film that is set in
Zellweger New York’s standup
comedy world.
The film’s financing and
sales deal was finished Thursday
between K5 International
and Kevin Frakes’ PalmStar
Media Capital.
Knoxville will play Jimmy
Bennett, a commitmentphobic,
train-wreck comedian
whose life is falling apart when
he takes a job looking after the
genius son of single mom P.J.
Andersen (Zellweger).
Written by Anthony Tambakis
(Warrior) and based on the
comedy of real-life stand-up
Dov Davidoff. The film will be
produced by Frakes, Zellweger
and Tambakis through their
All Together Now banner.
Production will kick off in
February in New York.
K5 is presenting the
project to buyers at TIFF.
CAA is handling North
American rights.
The project marks the third
collaboration for Zellweger
and Tambakis, who recently
received a pilot order for their
original series Cinnamon Girl.
Zellweger also will star in the
upcoming Broadway adaptation
of The Hustler, written by
Tambakis and to be directed by
Gavin O’Connor. THR
Cohen Media snaps up U.S.
rights to thriller Capital
Exclusive Media Launches
U.S.Distribution Shingle
New outfit will be dubbed Exclusive Releasing By Scott Roxborough and Tatiana Siegel
THERE’S A NEW
player in the domestic
distribution and
acquisitions arena.
Exclusive Media is Brodlie
launching Exclusive
Releasing, a U.S. distribution
company to be headed
by veteran executives Scott
Pascucci and Matt Brodlie. Pascucci
Insiders say Exclusive Releasing
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
greets the fans before the
opening night screening of
Rian Johnson’s Looper at
the Toronto International
Film Festival.
Eli Roth to Produce Up-and-Coming
Horror Director Ti West’s Sacrament
By Scott Roxborough and Pamela McClintock
HORRORMEISTER ELI ROTH HAS SIGNED ON
to produce and present The Sacrament, a
horror thriller from director Ti West.
Worldview Entertainment, which is building
an impressive slate of projects, will finance and
produce the film, while IM Global will handle
international sales through its genre label Octane.
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Penelope Wilton joins cast
of Amma Asante’s Belle
Films’ distribution division,
giving it instant
infrastructure.
Pascucci, who recently
joined Exclusive from
Grove Street Prods., will
serve as president and chief
operating officer. Brodlie
will head up acquisitions,
as he did for Paramount.
The move comes on the eve of
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Festival, where Exclusive Releasing
will be on the prowl for pickups
to feed its new release slate.
Parent company Exclusive
Media has three of its own films
in official selection in Toronto: the
crime drama End of Watch starring
Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael
Pena, which Open Road Films will
bow in the U.S.; Ramin Bahrani’s
At Any Price, featuring Dennis
likely will acquire Millennium the Toronto International Film
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ABOUT TOWN
buyers at the Toronto International
Film Festival. CAA is repping domestic
rights.
Roth didn’t give many details of the
Roth project except to say Sacrament would be
“Ti’s first mainstream movie, without sacrificing the
quality and unflinching horror of the subject matter.”
Added Worldview CEO Christopher Woodrow, “Ti
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Sexy Girls 25 Years in the Making
Veteran screenwriter —
and Hollywood mom —
Naomi Foner makes
directing debut at 66
By Tatiana Siegel
ON ONE OF THE FINAL DAYS
of shooting Very Good
Girls, director Naomi
Foner bobbed ever so slightly on
a moving pier in New York’s Port
Authority Ferry Terminal — a
trippy effect that induced a wave
of vertigo in anyone watching.
Even the film’s star Dakota
Fanning admitted she felt the
rocking sensation hours after the
marathon shoot while lying in bed.
Despite the shaky terrain,
Foner remained surefooted, an apt
metaphor for a woman making her
feature directorial debut at the age
of 66. Entrusted with a $10 million
budget and a buzzy cast that also
includes indie “It” girl Elizabeth
Olsen, Ellen Barkin, Richard
Dreyfuss and Demi Moore,
Foner blocked out the chaos and
uncertainty and brought her longgestating
project to life.
“We have a joke in my family
that I’m probably the first
grandmother to direct her
Popular Children’s Book Tale Dark
& Grimm Headed to Big Screen
By Pamela McClintock
FILMNATION ENTERTAINMENT AND
Kamala Films are teaming to turn Adam
Gidwitz’s popular children’s book A Tale
Dark & Grimm into a live-action feature.
Jon Gunn (My Date With Drew) and
John W. Mann (Mercy Streets) will write the
adapted screenplay.
Gidwitz’s original frightening and witty
story — inspired by the Brothers Grimm —
follows the adventures of two unsuspecting
children who hold the key to breaking out of
the Dark Ages.
FilmNation has acquired film rights to the
book and will partner with Marissa McMahon
of Kamala Films in financing and producing
Dark & Grimm alongside FilmNation Entertainment’s
Aaron Ryder and Karen Lunder.
first feature,” Foner said during
shooting, referring to her
famous offspring, Jake and Maggie
Gyllenhaal, and son-in-law
Peter Sarsgaard.
K5 is screening footage of the
film to international buyers at
the Toronto Film Festival, where
it already is garnering heat. The
film inked a deal with SWEN
for Latin America and also has
sold in such territories as Russia,
the Czech Republic, Israel and
the Middle East, South Africa,
Greece, Portugal, Iceland, India,
Singapore and Indonesia.
Foner is no stranger to the
film business, boasting a long
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and successful career as a
screenwriter with such credits
as Losing Isaiah and Bee Season
as well as an Oscar nomination
for Running on Empty. When
she wrote Very Good Girls nearly
three decades ago, she had no
idea that the coming-of-age
story would take such a labyrinthine
journey to fruition.
“The extraordinary thing about
Naomi is she fought for 25 years
to make this movie,” explains the
film’s producer Michael London
(Sideways). “It’s a sexy movie
about girls on the cusp of adult
sexuality. I’m surprised it took as
long as it did. By my standards, it
“We have been searching for distinctive
source material for our first family
project. Said Ryder, “We found this in Gidwitz’s
witty manuscript and look forward to
nurturing the project with our partners at
Kamala Films.”
Added McMahon: “Gidwitz’s A Tale Dark
& Grimm is a smart, addictive and hilariously
gruesome narrative that turns familiar
fairy tales on their head, much to the delight
of both children and parents. I’m looking
forward to joining Mann, Gunn and the
FilmNation team to bring this fantastically
original story to the big screen.”
Mann and Gunn are working with
Universal on Chernin Entertainment’s The
Nutcracker as well as an original animated
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Dakota Fanning and
Boyd Holbrook star in
the sexually charged
Very Good Girls.
felt commercial.”
After falling in love with
Foner’s script, London came
aboard the project a year ago,
helped untangle the rights from
its longtime home at Sony and
brought deep-pocketed financier
Norton Herrick into the mix.
The story revolves around two
high school seniors (Fanning
and Olsen) looking to lose their
virginity during the course of
the summer after graduation.
Although that setup has long
been a staple of male-driven teen
comedies, there has been scant
interest from studios to tackle the
female take on going all the way.
“How often have we seen
that flustered mother character
catching her son (masturbating)
and saying, ‘What am I going to
do with him?’” jokes Olsen of the
well-worn genre.
“What’s interesting is that
opportunities are opening up in
what I like to call the third act
of one’s life,” adds Foner. “We
are perfectly capable. We are
intelligent, and we have a lot of
experience and wisdom. I think
it’s a terrible shame not to make
use of that.” THR
Pike, Plummer
Join Hector
By Tatiana Siegel
ROSAMUND PIKE AND CHRISTOPHER
Plummer are becoming happy
campers.
The pair are joining the cast of Peter
Chelsom’s dramedy Hector and the Search
for Happiness.
Simon Pegg has already signed on to play
the lead in the film, which Solution Entertainment
Group is presenting to buyers at
the Toronto International Film Festival.
UTA is repping U.S. rights.
Pegg plays Hector, an eccentric yet irresistible
London psychiatrist in crisis.
Pike will portray his long-term girlfriend,
while Plummer, coming off his Oscar win
for Beginners, is taking on the role of Professor
Coreman, leading guru for Happiness
Studies at UCLA. THR
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Snoop has a spiritual
experience with local
vegetation in Reincarnated.
Snoop: What I Learned
About Making Movies
The hip-hop icon drops some wisdom after making
Rasta doc Reincarnated By Shirley Halperin
THE DOGGFATHER GOES TO
Jamaica, returns reborn as
Snoop Lion. The story may
sound like it warrants a cymbal
crash at the end, but Snoop
Dogg’s trip to the birthplace of
cultural icon Bob Marley was
anything but a joke.
The 40-year-old rapper, actor,
entrepreneur and, yes, smoker,
headed to the Caribbean island
to write and record music, but
he ended up with a documentary.
Reincarnated which debuts
today. Directed by Andy Capper
for VICE Films and produced by
VICE Media co-founder Suroosh
Alvi along with Snoop’s manager
Ted Chung, the film chronicles a
true rags-to-rap-to-riches story
of the hip hop star born Calvin
Broadus and his quest for selffulfillment
and a sense of place
in the world. Was he, like Marley,
sent to spread a gospel? Is there
deeper meaning to surviving his
gang-banging formative years,
when so many others didn’t? And
when you’ve already accomplished
so much, where do you go
next?As far as his doc is concerned:
Toronto — where Snoop
says he already feels like he won.
“For TIFF to even accept my
movie, that’s enough for me,” he
tells THR. “I never thought my
movie would make it into a festival
with such critically acclaimed
films. This ain’t my lane, but I
love every minute of it.”
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No stranger to the movie
business having appeared in
such comedies as Soul Plane, Old
School, Starsky & Hutch and The
Wash, Snoop has learned much
about life in front of the camera,
behind the scenes and in the
seats. He lists a few of those
hard-earned lessons below:
ALWAYS BE ON
“Having cameras in your face all
the time is hard because sometimes,
you just want to be left
alone — but that’s why you always
have to be on. You never know
when you’re going to capture that
moment. Then, when you watch it
back at the end of the day and you
see that moment, you’re glad the
cameras were there.”
HIRE A LOCAL DRIVER
“The roads in Jamaica — one
false move and you could fall
3,000 feet and no one would ever
find you. We had to have Evel
Knievel driving us because it was
some tricky moves. … I had my
camera guy to the side of me and
it was a great experience.”
STEER THE ROLE, DON’T LET IT
STEER YOU
“One of the hardest things I
learned was that it’s better to
control your own character than
be characterized. With the first
couple of movies I got, I didn’t
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Demarest
Backs A
Wanted Man
By Pamela McClintock
NEW FINANCING AND
production venture
Demarest Films has
come aboard to co-finance
and co-produce Anton Corbijn’s
espionage saga A Most
Wanted Man, starring Philip
Seymour Hoffman, Rachel
McAdams, Willem Dafoe and
Robin Wright.
Demarest was launched
in April by Sam Englebardt,
Michael Lambert and William
D. Johnson. The company’s
slate also includes
Neil Jordan’s motherdaughter
vampire film Byzantium,
which is premiering
here at Toronto. Byzantium
stars Saoirse Ronan and
Gemma Arterton.
A Most Wanted Man is based
on John le Carre’s acclaimed
novel. Screenwriter Andrew
Bovell adapted it for the
big screen.
The spy thriller is set
in present-day Hamburg,
Germany, where a mysterious
half-Chechen, half-Russian
man, brutally scarred from
torture, surfaces in the city’s
Islamic community, on the
run and desperate for help.
He seeks to recover his late
Russian father’s fortune and
soon connects with a conflicted
British private banker
and a young female lawyer
fiercely determined to
protect the rights of persecuted
emigres.
“A Most Wanted Man is the
perfect addition to Demarest’s
slate of smart, commercially
viable projects,” said Englebardt.
“Andrew Bovell did a
magnificent job adapting one
of Le Carré’s most compelling
and relevant novels. Anton
Corbijn is at the top of his
game and the cast is stellar.”
FilmNation Entertainment
is handling domestic and
international sales. THR
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Quaid and Zac Efron, a Sony
Pictures Classics release; and
Disconnect, an ensemble drama
featuring Jason Bateman, Hope
Davis andFrank Grillo.
Exclusive Media co-chairmen
Nigel Sinclair and Guy East
said Exclusive Releasing plans
to distribute three or four wide
releases a year, both in-house
produced films as well as thirdparty
titles. Veteran marketer
Mike Vollman is consulting for
the new division.
Exclusive Media’s move into
the crowded domestic distribution
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add anything to the character,
but as I started doing more films
and making my own, I learned
how to add my thing and to give
the director and writer what
they had seen in me. I felt closer
to the characters that they tried
to create of me.”
DON’T ASK STONERS TO LEAVE
THE HOUSE
“With Mac and Devin Go to High
School, I thought it was a waste
of time to go theatrical with it.
That movie was to be enjoyed in
the convenience of your home
and your couch, hanging out
with your homies, chilling, eating
some snacks, able to turn it
up and rewind some parts — it’s
a stoner flick. To stand in line,
get popcorn and wait for all
those movie trailers… First of
all, we might get pulled over on
the way to the motherf—ing theater.
We could be dealing with a
trap or a road block or checkpoint,
it’s too much. It’s like, put
that shit in right now, smoke
something and enjoy it. That’s
why the DVD was created.”
HAVE A PROPER FEST PARTY
“I like to work, and I love to
have fun ... so expect superstars,
celebrities, red wine,
vegetables and vegetation at
Great Hall Friday night.”
THR
waters follows the box-office success
of The Woman in Black, which
CBS Films distributed in the U.S.
on behalf of Exclusive. The supernatural
horror title, starring Daniel
Radcliffe, was a surprise hit, earning
more than $54 million in the
U.S. and $128 million worldwide.
Having its own domestic
distribution operation gives
Exclusive Media more flexibility
— and control.
“The launch of Exclusive
Releasing is the exciting and logical
next step for Exclusive Media
to be involved in all aspects of
the filmmaking and distribution
of our movies from development
through production and into
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has become a force in the horror
genre, and we are confident that
he is going to deliver another
chilling, elevated film that audiences
will love.”
Roth and Woodrow will
produce with Worldview COO
Molly Conners alongside Jacob
Jaffke and Peter Phok. Executive
producers include West,
Eric Newman and Worldview
execs Maria Cestone, Sarah
Johnson Redlich and Hoyt
David Morgan.
Sacrament marks Worldview’s
second collaboration with Roth.
The company said in Cannes
that it will be backing The
Green Inferno, Roth’s return to
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theaters,” East and Sinclair said in
a statement. “We are thrilled that
we have Scott and Matt joining us
to put this division together.”
Exclusive Releasing also will
acquire films for VOD and digital
platforms as well as develop and
buy alternative content, including
concert films and music
documentaries. Insiders say
Open Road might do some of the
booking for the new operation.
Upcoming films on Exclusive
Media’s slate include Can a
Song Save Your Life? with Keira
Knightley, and Rush, Ron Howard’s
Formula 1 film.
PAMELA MCCLINTOCK CONTRIBUTED
TO THIS REPORT.
FilmNation’s Dark & Grimm
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feature for Skydance Productions. Previously, they penned the Seth
Rogen-voiced feature Boo U for DreamWorks Animation and the
Mattel toy-inspired feature Magic 8 Ball for Paramount. Mann and
Gunn are repped by WME and Mosaic.
Kamala is in development on the screen adaptations of Jeff
Guinn’s Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
and Nancy Goldstone’s The Maid and The Queen: The Secret History of
Joan of Arc with Furst Films.
FilmNation has a major presence at the Toronto International
Film Festival this year, handling international sales on Rian Johnson’s
Looper — which opens the festival Sept. 6 — as well as several
other titles, including Terrence Malick’s To The Wonder, starring
Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem,
and Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children. THR
directing, which is set to begin
shooting in the fall in Chile
and Peru.
Roth’s latest thriller, Aftershock,
premieres this week in
Toronto, bowing in the festival’s
Midnight Madness section.
Worldview quickly is becoming
one of the most buzzworthy
new finance/production outfits.
The group recently wrapped
production on Atom Egoyan’s
West Memphis Three biopic;
Devil’s Knot, starring Colin Firth
and Reese Witherspoon; and
Guillaume Canet’s crime thriller
Blood Ties, featuring Clive Owen
and Marion Cotillard.
Worldview is in postproduction
on James Gray’s untitled period
drama starring Cotillard, Joaquin
Phoenix and Jeremy Renner. THR
Out in the Dark
Glass Grabs
Out in
the Dark
By Scott Roxborough
OUT IN THE DARK, A GAY
love story set amid the
political turmoil of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
will be coming to North
American screens courtesy of
Breaking Glass Pictures. The
company has picked up rights
to the feature from m-appeal
ahead of the Toronto International
Film Festival, where
Out in the Dark will have its
world premiere.
The drama, the directorial
debut of American-Israeli filmmaker
Michael Mayer, follows
an Israeli lawyer who falls in
love with a Palestinian student.
“This is a love story which
becomes complicated by
borders,” said Breaking Glass
CEO Richard Wolff. “The
adage ‘love knows no borders’
is unfortunately false in today’s
often intolerant society when
two countries are at odds.”
Breaking Glass plans to
bow Out in the Dark in North
America in August or September
2013. Wolff said he hopes
the film and its subject matter
will “raise awareness.”
M-appeal also has closed
deals for the film with Benelux
(ABC Distribution),
Germany (Pro-Fun Media)
and France (OutPlay). Out in
the Dark premieres Sept. 7 in
Toronto’s Discovery Section.
The German sales group
has two other TIFF titles on its
slate: the politically incorrect
Dutch comedy The Deflowering
of Eva van End and Julio Hernandez
Cordon’s drama Polvo,
both of which screen in the
World Cinema Section. THR
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SHIP OF THESEUS
by ANAND GANDHI
India, 2012, 139’, Hindi, Drama
CITY TO CITY: Opening Film
Thu, Sep 6 9.30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 (World Premiere)
Fri, Sep 7 2.30 pm Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 7 (Public)
Sat, Sep 8 1.15 pm Scotiabank Theatre 10 (P&I)
Tue, Sep 11 9.15 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 5 (P&I)
Sun, Sep 16 12.00 pm Scotiabank Theatre 4 (Public)
BEIJING FLICKERS
by ZHANG YUAN
China, 2012, 96’, Mandarin, Drama
VANGUARD
Sun, Sep 9 11.15 am Scotiabank Theatre 9 (P&I)
Mon, Sep 10 9.00 pm The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (World Premiere)
Wed, Sep 12 9.30 am Scotiabank Theatre 9 (P&I)
Wed, Sep 12 2.45 pm Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas7 (Public)
Sun, Sep 16 9.30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 4 (P & I)
WHAT MAISIE KNEW
by SCOTT MCGEHEE and DAVID SIEGEL
USA, 2012, 95’, English, Drama
Starring Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgård, Steve Coogan, Onata Aprile,
Joanna Vanderham
GALA
Fri, Sep 7 9:30pm Roy Thomson Hall (World Premiere)
Sat, Sep 8 8.45 am Scotiabank Theatre 1 (P & I)
Sat, Sep 8 12.45 pm TIFFBell Lightbox 1 (Public)
Tue, Sep 11 12.00 pm Scotiabank Theatre 1 (P & I)
Sun, Sep 16 3.30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1(Public)
BWAKAW
by JUN ROBLES LANA
Philippines, 2012, 110’, Tagalog, Drama/Comedy
CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
Sun, Sep 9 9.00 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 5 (P & I)
Mon, Sep 10 5.45 pm Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 5 (International Premiere)
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Sat, Sep 15 6.00 pm Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 5 (Public)
MISS LOVELY (New International Version]
by ASHIM AHLUWALIA
India, 2012, Hindi, Drama
CITY TO CITY
Mon, Sep 10 12.00 pm Scotiabank Theatre 10 (P & I)
Tue, Sep 11 9.15 pm Scotiabank Theatre 3 (North American Premiere)
Thu, Sep 13 6.00 pm Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 6 (Public)
Sat, Sep 15 9.00 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 4 (Public)
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Presented by: Wong Kar Wai
Status: Post Production
WHITE FROG
by QUENTIN LEE
USA, English, Coming of Age/Drama
Cast: Booboo Stewart, Joan Chen, BD Wong
Status: Completed
CAMERA
by JAMES LEONG
Singapore, Suspense/Thriller
Status: Post Production
CAMIEL BORGMAN
by ALEX VAN WARMERDAM
The Netherlands / Belgium / Denmark, Dutch,
Drama
Status: In Production
SIMON KILLER
by ANTONIO CAMPOS
USA, 2012, English, Psychological Drama
Cast: Brady Corbet, Mati Diop
Status: Completed
AN END TO KILLING
by WANG PING
China, 2012, Mandarin, Drama
Status: Completed
DJINN
by TOBE HOOPER
UAE, English/Arabic, Supernatural Horror Thriller
Status: Post Production
SUNSET SONG
by TERENCE DAVIES
UK, English
Cast: Peter Mullan (WAR HORSE), Agyness Deyn
Status: Pre-production
FULL CIRCLE
by ZHANG YANG
China, 2012, Mandarin, Comedy/Drama
Status: Completed
REDEMPTION STREET
by MIROSLAV TERZIĆ
Serbia, 2012, 97’, Serbian, Thriller
Status: Completed
MONSOON SHOOTOUT
by AMIT KUMAR
India, Hindi, Action/Thriller
Status: Post Production
Director: Terence Davies Director: John Cameron Mitchell
HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES
by JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL
USA, English, Romance/Sci-Fi/Music
Status: In Development
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ABOUT TOWN
RAMBLING REPORTER
BRADLEY COOPER: SCARFACE
The unofficial face of this year’s fest
is Bradley Cooper, with two of his
films — The Place Beyond the Pines
and Silver Linings Playbook — world
premiering back-to-back on Sept.
7 and 8. But those who’ve been up
close and personal with People’s
former Sexiest Man Alive, especially
prior to time spent in the makeup
chair, know that his face is not without
imperfection. There’s a reason
that David Lynch’s The Elephant Man
inspired him to get into acting in the
first place. (He also performed the
title role in a stage adaptation at the
Williamstown Festival in Massachusetts
this summer, and plans are in
the works for him to bring the play to
Broadway next fall for a limited run.)
Look closely, or even not so closely,
at the big-screen heartthrob and
Three Parties Not to Miss
TWC’S THE MASTER AFTERPARTY Friday, Sept. 7
No one knows how to throw a party quite like Harvey
Weinstein. And at this year’s fest, The Weinstein
Co. is touting its anticipated Paul Thomas Anderson
drama The Master, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Amy Adams and Joaquin Phoenix. TWC will take
over Toronto’s members-only SoHo House pop-up
club 192 Adelaide Street West for the film’s obligatory
TIFF debut afterparty. The company regularly
rents out the club’s West Hollywood property for
both private Golden Globe and Oscar parties).
FLASH Monday, Sept. 10
For those veteran TIFF-goers in the know, the most
notorious party of the festival is Sunday’s Ladies
Night at Remingtons, a gay cabaret near Ryerson
University that maintains strict regulations
THR cover boy
Cooper has back-to-
back screenings in
Toronto this year.
you’ll see that Cooper’s countenance
is covered with his fair share of flaws.
“I have so many scars on my face,” he
tells THR (Cooper graces this week’s
THR cover for the Toronto Issue).
Some were accumulated accidentally
— and at least one on purpose.
“It’s huge,” he says of one
particular scar on his forehead.
“It goes all the way
to the back [of my scalp].
A huge glass lamp fell on
my face when I was 15. I
lived in an old barn, and
my parents bought this
glass lampshade —
like a lawyer’s lamp.
They hung it on the
wall. It was Super
Bowl Sunday, I
heard my grandparents
come in, and
I threw the covers
open. I watched
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it fall. It crashed, and blood was
squirting out. I couldn’t move part of
my face for six months. It went right
to my skull.”
BOARDWALK EMPIRE’S
TORONTO VETERANS
At the third-season premiere of HBO’s
Boardwalk Empire in New York City,
stars reminisced about their time at
what many call the industry’s most
laid-back film festival. Series star
Gretchen Mol, who made her TIFF
debut to rave reviews in 2005’s The
Notorious Bettie Page, said her best
memory of the fest was the supportive
theatergoers. “I just loved
the Toronto audience,” she tells THR.
“They were real movie lovers.” Shea
Whigham, who plays Boardwalk’s
resident corrupt cop, has become
a Toronto regular during the past
decade (“I love this festival,” he said)
and currently has a major feature in
contention, David O’Russell’s Silver
Linings Playbook (alongside
Cooper and Robert De Niro).
Kelly Macdonald made her
TIFF debut back in 1998 with
Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth. “I
was there with my good friend
Emily Mortimer,” Macdonald
says of her Elizabeth costar
and fellow HBO series
regular (Mortimer stars on
Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom).
“We had so much
fun hanging out, but I can
barely remember what
we did.” Perhaps too
Mol
much fun? THR
regarding female clubgoers. But this year THR
hears the festivities are moving to Mondays at
Flash on Church Street, another racy dive. After
a busy TIFF opening weekend, publicists, agents
and occasionally talent (Johnny Knoxville has been
known to attend) let their hair down in a decidedly
unglamourous setting. Remingtons, however,
is still rolling out the red carpet — the club is
generously offering a $5 cover-charge discount for
patrons sporting festival credentials.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER’S TIFF BASH
5-8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9
THR news director Matthew Belloni and staff
are hosting an exclusive cocktail party at the
Thompson Hotel’s Rooftop Bar (complete with
music by Mick Boogie) and VIP guests including
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Reitman, Keira Knightley
and Emile Hirsch.
Moose Point Estate on Lake Muskoka
Toronto’s
Lakeside Getaways
By Bryan Dearsley
LOCATED 100 MILES NORTH OF
Toronto, Muskoka is a landscape
of pristine lakes, rugged
islands and prized fishing and
hunting that first enticed New YorK
and Pittsburgh’s wealthy in the late
1800s. These days, the region has
become a summer and even postfestival
draw for celebrities.
Summer saw Hugh Grant
golfing on Bigwin Island, a resort
famous for once having hosted
Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Ernest
Hemingway and H.G. Wells.
Tom Hanks spent yet another
summer scooting around Lake
Muskoka by boat while renting a
cottage complex, where he reportedly
hosted Steven Spielberg.
Other names who own cottages
or have recently visited: Martin
Short, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell,
Kenny G, Cindy Crawford
and Bill Murray. And realtors are
abuzz about the prospect of Leonardo
DiCaprio and Tom Cruise
being in the market for cottages of
their own. Although “you can’t call
them cottages,” says Lionsgate
Entertainment co-chair Harald
Ludwig, “more like estates with
fabulous boat houses.”
And if the stars need privacy,
it can be obtained for upward of
$1 million by purchasing lushly
treed lots on Lake Muskoka’s
“Millionaire’s Row.” Or there’s Lake
of Bays, where one of the most
stunning properties is Moose Point
Estate (listed at $8.5 million with
Sotheby’s International), a customcarved
rustic 12,400-squarefoot
mansion with 600 feet of
shoreline, radiant heated floors, a
screening room with a fiber-optic
night-sky ceiling and triple-slip
boathouse and dock.
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COOPER: MEL BARLOW
Wavelengths
THE FIFTH SEASON
by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth
NL Co-prod: Molenwiek Film
Sales: Films Boutique
eye international
your Dutch film connection
• 09/07, 14:45, TIFF Bell Lightbox 5 (press & industry)
• 09/12, 19:15, TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
• 09/13, 14:00, Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 10
• 09/14, 09:45, TIFF Bell Lightbox 5 (press & industry)
• 09/16, 14:30, Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 10
Contemporary World Cinema
IN THE FOG
by Sergei Loznitsa
NL Co-prod: Lemming Film
Sales: The Match Factory
• 09/12, 21:30, Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 3
• 09/14, 09:15, Cinema 2
• 09/16, 21:30, Jackman Hall (AGO)
Wavelengths
POST TENEBRAS LUX
by Carlos Reygadas
NL Co-prod: Topkapi Films
Sales: NDM
• 09/07, 11:15, Scotiabank 8 (press & industry)
• 09/12, 21:45, TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
• 09/13, 13:15, TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
• 09/16, 18:00, Scotiabank 3
Future Projections
SPRINGTIME
by Jeroen Eisinga
Prod/sales: Jeroen Eisinga
• 08/24 – 09/16, MOCCA, 952 Queen Street West
Wavelengths
VIEW FROM THE ACROPOLIS
by Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan
Prod: Van Brummelen en De Haan
Sales: Motive Gallery
• 09/10,19:00, Jackman Hall (AGO)
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DIRECTOR Q&A
Rian Johnson
The man behind TIFF opener Looper talks about
breaking with tradition, the challenges of time travel
and the sad state of the blockbuster By Borys Kit
RIAN JOHNSON BURST ON
the movie scene with
2005’s Brick, a stylized
film noir set in high school that
starred a young Joseph Gordon-
Levitt, who was eager to break
out of his Third Rock From the
Sun shadow. USC grad Johnson,
38, made his first TIFF appearance
in 2008 with the quirky The
Brothers Bloom, and now its his
$30 million-budgeted Looper is
generating buzz with the festival
and geek crowds alike, ahead of
its Sept. 28 release by TriStar/
FilmDistrict. The first non-Canadian
narrative film to open TIFF,
Looper reteams the director with
Gordon-Levitt, who has since
become one of Hollywood’s most
promising actors.
It was a bit controversial for TIFF
to break with tradition and choose
your non-Canadian film to open
the festival. Were you aware of the
potential backlash?
No, I wasn’t really privy to all of
that. I caught up on the controversy
after the announcement
was made. I heard [TIFF artistic
director] Cameron Bailey speak
to it, and it sounds like they were
ready for the pushback, and they
had their reasons for it. It was the
sort of thing where when they
offered it to us, it was a bit of a
surprise but a really pleasant one.
How different was it for you
to tackle a time-travel sci-fi
action movie compared with your
previous films?
In some ways, I guess it doesn’t feel
too different for me because
I have a group of friends that I have
stayed consistent with, that I’ve
made all three movies with. And
although this was a bigger scale
then Brothers Bloom, it was kind of
made the same way with [Looper
production company] Endgame
Entertainment: I had my cinematographer,
who has been my
best friend since film school; my
cousin Nathan did the music for
it — we’ve been working together
since we were 10 years old — and
[Gordon-Levitt], of course, who
I’ve known since Brick. It’s been
like the family coming together to
make another movie. It didn’t feel
like a significantly different thing
in terms of the process of it. The
film itself, it’s definitely a different
genre then either Brick or Bloom,
but within that I think it’s trying
to do the same thing: to connect to
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something that I care about.
What are some of the biggest challenges
of time-travel movies?
Figuring out how much to explain,
figuring how to keep it simple.
With this film especially, because
even though it’s a time-travel
movie, the pleasure of it doesn’t
come from the mass of time
travel. It’s not a film like Primer (a
2004 cult movie that deals in the
complexities of time travel), for
instance, where the big part of the
enjoyment is kind of working out
all the intricacies of it. For Looper I
very much wanted it to be a more
character-based movie that is more
about how these characters dealt
with the situation time travel has
brought about. So the biggest challenge
was figuring out how to not
spend the whole movie explaining
the rules and figure out how to
put it out there in a way that made
sense on some intuitive level for the
audience; then get past it and deal
with the real meat of the story.
Looper feels like it could have been
a summer blockbuster a decade
ago, but these days it’s independently
financed. I don’t know about
you, but I found this summer’s
movies kind of lackluster.
Well, there’s always enjoyable
stuff, and I don’t want to slag
off a big group of movies, but I
do feel like just in general, with
big films recently, it is increasingly
difficult to sit down in a
theater and be surprised. It feels
increasingly like movies are
being developed as properties —
the same way you would develop
a fast-food franchise. Those
movies can be made to be really
fun and really creative, but one
thing that I find myself seeking
out more and more is something
where I sit down and I’m not
sure what to expect. That’s what
Vital Stats
Nationality American
Born Dec. 17, 1973
Film in Toronto Looper
(Opening-night film)
Filmography
Brick (2005),
The Brothers Bloom (2008)
Notable Awards Sundance Special
Jury Prize (dramatic) for Brick
we were aspiring to with Looper,
mixing actual surprise with
some of the summer movie elements
of the action.
A few years ago when Inception
came out, everyone was saying,
“Wow, this is going to bring back
originality to Hollywood!” But it
hasn’t, has it?
It feels dramatic to frame it like
that. I think the truth is just that
good movies get made and a lot of
less interesting movies get made,
and that has always been happening.
The gap between them can be
long or it can be short, but I think
it matters that there are diamonds
in the rough. I’m a huge Inception
fan, but viewing it as a failed
movement would be the wrong
way of looking at it. For me, as a
moviegoer, as long as a movie like
that can bust through every now
and then, as long as every year we
get at least one of those — God, I’ll
even settle for every two years if we
get an Inception — I’m thrilled.
Have you ever been approached to
direct a big studio movie?
I’ve had conversations about it,
but they’ve never gotten very far,
and I don’t know how seriously
I’ve ever been in the running for
anything. On one level, it’s always
tempting, especially as a filmmaker
just starting out careerwise.
The notion of jumping on to
something big like that and having
those toys to play with and incredibly
talented people involved with
it and engaging a big audience —
it’s great. I think great movies can
be made in that mode. But for me
specifically, I have figured out that
at least for now, what really gets
me excited is creating something
from the ground up. It’s even less
about it being original per se, it’s
more about the fact that it’s mine.
It’s more about that fact that I
start with just a seed of an idea
and take it all the way through to
the end. I feel like I have this window
right now where my producer
Ram Bergman and I are actually
able to get our own scripts made.
However many of these we can get
through, I want to take advantage
of this window while it’s still here
and get my own stories told. THR
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Contemporary
World Cinema
JACKIE
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by Antoinette Beumer
Prod: Eyeworks Film & TV Drama
• Fri September 7, 10:00, Scotiabank 7 (press & industry)
• Sat September 8, 15:15, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7
• Mon September 10, 21:00, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2
• Sat September 15, 12:00, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7
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EXECUTIVE SUITE
UTA’s dynamic duo discuss thriving in a man’s world, their TIFF strategy
and the secret behind their succesful collaboration By Tatiana Siegel
SPEND ENOUGH TIME ON THE FESTIVAL
circuit, and one can’t help but notice
something missing. No, it’s not the
absence of no-fee ATMs or even the lack of
decent takeout. What’s striking is the dearth
of female sales agents at the negotiating
table. Still, UTA’s independent film group
is bucking the trend in a big way. With its
dynamic female duo of Rena Ronson and
Bec Smith hammering out buzz-worthy deals
for such recent films as Salmon Fishing in the
Yemen, Our Idiot Brother and Margin Call, the
agency is dispelling the notion that the indie
sphere is a man’s world. In fact, UTA’s Rich
Klubeck and David Flynn now find themselves
in the minority within the agency’s
five-member independent film group thanks
to the promotion of Hailey Wierengo to
coordinator. Ronson and Smith spoke with
The Hollywood Reporter about navigating the
so-called gender divide and their expectations
heading into TIFF.
Why does the film packaging and finance business
continue to be so male dominated?
RR We actually don’t see it that way. There
are definitely more men in the independent
business, but we don’t consider it male dominated.
It’s not about them dominating. It’s
just more volume.
So it’s a quality not quantity kind of thing?
RR (Laughs) I can’t say that. I just don’t see
things as male-female. I was raised in a family
with a brother, and we were always equal. Bec
and I do are jobs really well. There’s just more
men in this space than there are women.
So why do men seem to be more attracted to
this arena?
RR I think it’s changing. I think it’s about
opportunity. But there’s always that question
why. Why do we gravitate toward what we do?
BS I don’t think there are less women in
this space than any other space in the film
business. It’s good that there are women who
have been ensconced in positions of power
across the film industry, including in this
part of the business. I would say generationally,
some time ago, it was harder for women
to imagine themselves working in film. Now
those barriers have come down, and there are
women doing it everywhere.
How would you describe the dynamic between
the two of you?
RR Very collaborative. What’s great about
our division is we all bring specific expertise
to the division. Whether it’s my experience
in the foreign sales world or Bec’s in the film
and producing world or Rich’s in legal, we all
bring something from the outside world. For
Bec and I, we’re constantly back and forth
with each other in one of our offices.
BS I definitely look to Rena for her experience
and skill set. And she looks to me for
certain things that I have a background
in. And we also go to other members of the
group for their expertise. Rich used to run
companies and is a producer. Flynn has a
management background and specializes
in representing directors as well. But Rena
is definitely a mentor to me. It’s fun having
someone so close to hand there that you can
go to and ask questions of and who will take
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Ronson, left, and
Smith photographed
in Ronson’s office at
UTA in Beverly Hills.
CO-HEAD, AGENT, UTA INDEPENDENT FILM GROUP
Rena Ronson and Bec Smith
the time to make sure those questions are
being answered.
Going into Toronto, what are your expectations?
RR To sell all of our movies. 100% sell-through.
We have a track record, and we haven’t broken
it. We don’t expect to break it this time. We
have an incredible lineup.
BS We have everything this year, from films
that started in the agency as a great script
from a younger writer that we were able
to attach a big star to like Kristen Wiig —
which turned into Imogene — to finished
films that came to us via relationships. The
two types of films also nicely reflect the taste
of the group.
With a film like the upcoming Arthur Newman,
with Colin Firth and Emily Blunt, you are
co-repping with CAA. In this cutthroat agency
world, how does that work?
RR More now than ever before, when you
have a greenlighting element at an agency,
whether it’s the writer or director or a big
actor, it lends itself to a co-repping situation.
In this case, we put the financing together. It
was our writer, Becky Johnston. We put one
of our directors on it, Dante Ariola, for his
first feature film. He’s been looking for years
for something to do. They went to (Blunt
and Firth) at CAA, but we’re the point
agency. What we’ve learned over the years
about co-representation is there are ways to
do it effectively.
BS If you’re putting a movie together and
representing a director, you’re going to be
involved. If you’re bringing a green light
element to the cast, you’ll likely be involved.
We try to be partnership-minded with the
other agency.
Your job requires you to be on the road at
festivals for so much of the year. How does that
affect your personal lives?
RR My daughter is now 13 and has grown up
with this business. This is what she knows.
She had to write an essay for school about
her role model, and she wrote about me. She
wrote about how much she respects how passionate
I am about what I do. She sometimes
asks, ‘Why do you have to go away so much?’
And I say, ‘I love what I do.’
BS As an Australian, travelling the world is
in my DNA. The minute I joined the film
industry, the international film festival circuit
became part of my routine. That circuit is
kind of its own beautiful family. You reconnect
with these people multiple times a
year. In terms of my personal life back here,
anybody who is going to want to be a friend of
mine has to understand that travelling is part
of my job and part of who I am. THR
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CANADIAN FILM HAS ENTERED A NEW ERA.
Carolle Brabant, executive director of Telefilm Canada,
is Canada’s premier film financier, backing such titles
as Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children and Ruba Nadda’s
Inescapable that will receive world bows at the Toronto
International Film Festival.
But there were raised eyebrows a year ago when Brabant a
introduced a “success index” for Telefilm Canada to measure how
Canadian titles fared at home and overseas, in theaters and beyond.
A year later, the decision to tally film festival trophies and
international sales to measure how homegrown movies perform has
transformed how Canadians see their own cinema.
In a bold move, Telefilm Canada helped Canadian films to break
out at major international film festivals, including Cannes,
Venice and Locarno.
The result helped build audience anticipation ahead of foreignlanguage
Oscar contenders such as Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies and
Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar arriving in domestic theaters.
Take Incendies, which bowed in Venice and Toronto with critical
buzz and acclaim. “That, combined with the promotion that
[Telefilm] at the time did certainly helped the career of the film,”
Brabant recalls.
Likewise, Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar grabbed two prizes at
Locarno en route to its Oscar nomination and promotional push by
Telefilm Canada. “It’s not a secret. It’s how the Americans have built
buzz around their films,” Brabant argues.
But not in Canada, until Telefilm Canada began supporting
game-changing films that hit with audiences at home and abroad.
T-1
Canadian Passport
Canadian filmmaker Deepa
Mehta’s adaptation of Salman
Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children will
have its world premiere at TIFF.
THE GREAT
NORTHERN EXPANSION
Telefilm Canada’s comprehensive strategy for promoting local cinema — including
a ‘success index’ — is quietly transforming the Canuck film sector By Etan Vlessing
That quest for box office goes beyond promotional backing from
Telefilm Canada at TIFF.
The Canadian film industry has seen many of its biggest boxoffice
triumphs come from international co-productions.
So Telefilm Canada is looking to Toronto and Cannes, where it
held a Canadian talent tribute in May, and elsewhere overseas to
mine the international terrain for additional foreign co-production
coin and partners.
“All countries are struggling with their financial situation,” Brabant
says, “and Canada is doing a little bit better than other countries.
So American and other foreign film producers are looking to
partner with Canadians, not least to take advantage of domestic tax
credits and international co-production treaties.
The federal government’s film financier is even selecting local
movie scripts for Chinese producers to possibly make as official
Canada-China co-productions.
“It’s well known that we have talented people, even though we're
a small market,” Brabant insists. Telefilm Canada also has set about
attracting more private coin for Canadian films to leverage dwindling
government subsidies.
The stepped-up promotional push for Canadian film will culminate
this week at TIFF with initiatives including the Talent to Watch
series, the Talent Lab professional development workshop and
the Filmmaker Boot Camp, a training event for local filmmakers
descending on Toronto.
“This year is a good year for Canadian films at TIFF. We have a good
selection that shows what Canada is all about, about diversity and a good
balance between woman and men filmmakers,” Brabant says. THR
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CANADIAN TITLES
SCREENING AT TIFF
A complete rundown of locally produced movies playing throughout the fest
CAMION
Rafal Ouellet
The Montreal filmmaker returns
to TIFF with his fourth feature, a
drama about a working-class family
that reconnects in the wake of a fatal
road accident. The French-language
pic, starring Julien Poulin, Patrice
Dubois and Stephane Breton,
earned the best director award and
the Ecumenical prize at the Karlovy
Vary International Film Festival.
North American Premiere
Contemporary World Cinema
Press & Industry Sept. 6 2:15 p.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Press & Industry Sept.
13 12:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 5;
Public Sept. 12 9:30 p.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 3; Public Sept. 14 6 p.m. Cineplex
Yonge & Dundas 10; Public Sept. 15 1:15
p.m. Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 10
THE CRIMES OF MIKE RECKET
Bruce Sweeney
The neo-noir police procedural
portrays a failed real estate agent,
played by Nicolas Lea, who seduces
and defrauds a writer to turn things
around, only to end up the subject of
a criminal investigation. Also stars
Gabrielle Rose and Agam Darshi.
World Premiere
Contemporary World Cinema
Press & Industry Sept. 7 2 p.m. Scotiabank
9; Press & Industry Sept. 12
2:45 p.m. Scotiabank 9; Public Sept. 11
9:45 p.m. Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7;
Public Sept. 13 9 p.m. Cineplex Yonge
& Dundas 10
HOME AGAIN
Sudz Sutherland
The Tatiana Ali-starring drama
follows three adults raised as
foreigners in the U.S., Canada
and Britain from childhood and
deported to Jamaica, the country
of their birth, on a journey of
survival and discovery.
World Premiere
Contemporary World Cinema
Press & Industry Sept. 7 2:30 p.m.
Scotiabank 11; Public Sept. 12 5:30 p.m.
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7; Public Sept.
14 5 p.m. Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7
MY AWKWARD SEXUAL
ADVENTURE
Sean Garrity
Starring Emily Hampshire and
Jonas Chernik, the drama sees a
conservative accountant looking
to win back his ex-girlfriend who
hires an exotic dancer to guide him
on a journey of sexual discovery in
the world of strip clubs, massage
parlors and cross-dressing.
World Premiere
Contemporary World Cinema
Press & Industry Sept. 8 9 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Press & Industry
Sept. 12 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema
3; Public Sept. 11 7 p.m. Scotiabank
4; Public Sept. 13 8:30 p.m. Cineplex
Yonge & Dundas 9 ; Public Sept. 15 9:45
a.m. Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9
THE LESSER BLESSED
Anita Doron
Twilight actor Kiowa Gordon and
Benjamin Bratt topline a comingof-age
tale about a First Nations
teenager struggling to cope with
a painful past and trying to find
his place in the modern world.
Newcomer Joel Evans, a 16-year-old
native Canadian from Fort Smith in
the Northwest Territories, also stars
in the drama, shot in Canada’s north.
World Premiere
Press & Industry Sept. 10 9:45 a.m.
Scotiabank 10; Public Sept. 9 4 p.m.
Isabel Bader Theater; Public Sept. 11
T-2
6:15 p.m. Scotiabank 2
BLACKBIRD
Jason Buxton
The timely first feature, starring
Connor Jessup and Alexia Fast,
portrays a troubled teen who is
falsely accused of planning a
Columbine-type shooting scenario
online. Jailed in a youth detention
facility, the 16-year-old struggles
to defend his innocence and fend
off a public crucifixion in a smartly
produced cyber-bullying drama.
World Premiere
Discovery
Press & Industry Sept. 7 4:15 p.m. Scotiabank
9; Press & Industry Sept. 13 4:15
p.m. Scotiabank 9; Public Sept. 9 9:45
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3; Public
Sept. 10 1 p.m. Jackman Hall (AGO)
KRIVINA
Igor Drljaca
Miro, an immigrant from the
former Yugoslavia, lives in Toronto.
When he finds out that his prewar
friend Dado, who has been missing
for almost two decades, is now
wanted for war-era crimes, his
life starts to unravel. The Serbo-
Croatian- and Bosnian-language
pic stars Goran Slavkovic, Jasmin
Geljo and Edis Livnjak.
World Premiere
Discovery
Press & Industry Sept. 10 9:30 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 5
Press & Industry Sept. 13 6:45 p.m.
Scotiabank 9; Public Sept. 9 9:15 p.m.
Jackman Hall (AGO) ; Public Sept. 11 3
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
PICTURE DAY
Kate Melville
A floundering high school senior,
played by Tatiana Maslany, is
forced to repeat her last year of
classes. Caught between adolescence
and adulthood, she falls
in love with an aging rock star,
while making friends with a nerdy
freshman. The indie pic marks
Nadda
Mehta
Melville
WOMEN HELMERS
MAKE THEIR MARK
A number of high-profile titles from female filmmakers
adds diversity to the TIFF lineup By Etan Vlessing
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screenwriter Melville’s directorial
debut and also stars Spencer Van
Wyck and Steven McCarthy.
World Premiere
Discovery
Press & Industry Sept. 7 2:15 p.m.
Scotiabank 6; Press & Industry Sept. 13
8:30 a.m. Scotiabank 3; Public Sept. 7
9:45 p.m. Isabel Bader Theater; Public
Sept. 8 3:30 p.m. Cineplex Yonge &
Dundas 6; Public Sept. 16 6:45 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
TOWER
Kazik Radwanski
The Toronto filmmaker, known for
Home Again director
Sudz Sutherland’s
previous film Love, Sex
and Eating the Bones
won best first feature
at TIFF in 2003.
his signature short films, makes
his feature debut with a character
study about Derek, a thirty-something
loner without a career who
finds romance with Nicole while
on a quest to find the raccoon who
has been tearing up his family’s
garbage. Tower, which stars Derek
Bogart and Nicole Fairbairn,
debuted at Locarno.
North American Premiere
Discovery
Press & Industry Sept. 9 2 p.m. Scotiabank
7; Public Sept. 11 10 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 3; Public
Sept. 12 6:15 p.m. Cineplex Yonge &
Dundas 9
CANADIAN FEMALE FILM DIRECTORS HAVE CRACKED THE
old boys club. In addition to the high-heeled and designergowned
festival starlets strutting the red carpet at the Toronto
International Film Festival will be seven Canadian women screening
their latest movies.
“For me, this is a beautiful conversation to have. It puts out in the
open the elephant in the room,” says Ruba Nadda, who is receiving a
world premiere at Roy Thomson Hall for her Marisa Tomei-starring
Syrian drama Inescapable.
“I have other issues,” she adds. “I’m an Arab. I have everything
thrown at me, being an Arab, Syrian and a woman filmmaker.”
Toronto also will play host to Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell, where
the Oscar-nominated filmmaker peels away the layers from a family
of storytellers; Anais Barbeau-Lavalette’s Inch Allah, which is set in
the West Bank; and Anita Doron’s The Lesser Blessed, a coming-ofage
story starring Benjamin Bratt.
Also getting gala treatment at Roy Thomson Hall is Deepa
Mehta’s Midnight’s Children, her long-awaited collaboration with
British novelist Salman Rushdie.
“I’m not surprised that TIFF is showcasing a strong female
T-3
LUNARCY!
Simon Ennis
The debut feature documentary
follows a group of dreamers who
have devoted their lives to the
moon. Ennis follows eccentric subjects
across North America as they
pursue lunar goals — from moon
rituals in Brooklyn to lunar laser
shows in San Antonio, from the
world’s largest science fiction convention
to a dusty space port in the
Mojave Desert. Ennis’ first feature,
You Might as Well Live, was a 2009
Slamdance award winner.
World Premiere
Real to Reel
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:30 a.m. Scotiabank
9; Public Sept. 8 6:30 p.m. Cineplex
Yonge & Dundas 10; Public Sept. 13 5 p.m.
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2
REVOLUTION
Rob Stewart
The follow-up to the box-office hit
Sharkwater, Stewart takes his audience
an impassioned and at times
angry quest to stop the destruction
of Earth’s precious marine life.
The doc starts with the release of
Sharkwater in China and the filmmaker
recognizing that sharks still
face a bleak future.
World Premiere
Real to Reel
Press & Industry Sept. 10 2:30 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 5; Public Sept.
12 8:45 p.m. Cineplex Yonge & Dundas
6; Public Sept. 14 2:30 p.m. Cineplex
Yonge & Dundas 2
SHOW STOPPER:
THE THEATRICAL LIFE
OF GARTH DRABINSKY
Barry Avrich
Avrich, who has done documentaries
on such power players as Lew
Wasserman, Harvey Weinstein
and Dominick Dunne, has turned
his camera on Garth Drabinsky.
The Canadian former Broadway
impresario is in jail for his role in the
downfall of live stage producer Live
Entertainment, which most recently
was owned by Michael Ovitz. Interviewees
include Diahann Carroll,
Chita Rivera and Elaine Stritch.
World Premiere
Real to Reel
Press & Industry Sept. 9 2:15 p.m.
Scotiabank 9; Public Sept. 11 6:45 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 1; Public Sept. 13
2 p.m. Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7
THE SECRET
DISCO REVOLUTION
Jamie Kastner
You might think you know disco.
The Toronto filmmaker’s cheeky
documentary spotlights the muchmaligned
world of disco, arguing
the musical genre represented a
moment of mass liberation for
women, African-Americans and
contingency as [the fest] always has been ahead of the game in
terms of featuring a true and diverse cross section of storytellers in
our country, many of which happen to be women,” Mehta says.
Toronto also booked world premieres for Manon Briand’s
Liverpool, a feature drama about a coat check attendant in a
bar who returns an unclaimed coat to its owner, only to land in
the middle of criminal intrigue, and Kate Melville’s directorial
debut with Picture Day, coming-of-age story starring Tatiana
Maslany.
“Technology is changing, the means of production is ending up
in the hands of the filmmakers and we get to hear more voices,”
Melville says of more Canadian women directing — and often writing
— TIFF titles.
Toronto fest director Piers Handling applauds the slew of Canadian
female directors breaking new ground at TIFF.
Says Handling: “What’s different this year is we have seven
[Canadian] women filmmakers — and that’s wonderful because,
certainly as a festival programmer and director, we’re looking for
representation for women. And that’s probably the most exciting
thing in the program for me.” THR
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gay men. The untold story of the
disco revolution features Village
People, Gloria Gaynor and Kool
and the Gang.
World Premiere
Real to Reel
Press & Industry Sept. 9 4:30 p.m.
Scotiabank 3; Public Sept. 8 9:45 p.m.
Scotiabank 3; Public Sept. 13 3 p.m.
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
INESCAPABLE
Ruba Nadda
Alexander Siddig, Joshua Jackson
and Marisa Tomei star in a timely
thriller about a man whose
daughter disappears in Damascus,
forcing him to return to the country
he left behind more than three
decades ago. The Canada-South
Africa co-production enjoying
gala treatment in Toronto follows
Nadda’s earlier theatrical drama
Cairo Time, which snagged the
best Canadian feature prize at the
2009 Toronto International
Film Festival.
World Premiere
Gala
Press & Industry Sept. 8 10:45 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 3; Press &
Industry Sept. 10 2:15 p.m. Scotiabank
2; Public Sept. 11 6:30 p.m. Roy
Thomson Hall; Public Sept. 13 5 p.m.
Scotiabank 1
MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN
Deepa Mehta
The Canadian-Indian filmmaker’s
long-awaited adaptation of
Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prizewinning
1981 novel spans generations
as the allegorical fantasy
captures India’s transition from
British colonialism to independence
and partition through
the eyes of two children. The
epic drama stars Shabana Azmi,
Seema Biswas, Rahul Bose and
Charles Dance.
World Premiere
Gala
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:30 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 1; Public
Sept. 9 6:30 p.m. Roy Thomson Hall;
Public Sept. 10 9 a.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 2
ALL THAT YOU POSSESS
Bernard Emond
The Quebec filmmaker has created
a drama about a disgruntled
scholar trying to withdraw from
the world but finds personal ties
drawing him back into the family
he had left behind. The Frenchlanguage
pic, from the director of
La donation and La neuvaine, stars
Patrick Drolet, Isabelle Vincent,
Gilles Renaud and Sara Simard.
World Premiere
Masters
Public Sept. 10 7:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 3; Public Sept. 12 2:15 p.m..
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 6
THE END OF TIME
Peter Mettler
Having bowed in Locarno,
Mettler’s film traverses the globe
to explore, and explode, our
conceptions of time by combining
documentary, nature-heavy montages
and philosophical speculation.
The Switzerland-Canada film
is the latest from the Canadian
experimental filmmaker, visual
artist and cinematographer after
Picture of Light, Gambling and
Gods and LSD.
International Premiere
Masters
Press & Industry Sept. 7 12:30 p.m.
Scotiabank 7; Public Sept. 6 9:15 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 1; Public Sept. 8
12:15 p.m. Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2
100 MUSICIANS
Charles Officer
Politics enters the bedroom as
the veteran Canadian television
director delivers an eight-minute
short about a couple in the
afterglow of making love who
then quarrel over what they
believe they hear on the radio.
Rainbow Sun Francks and Abena
Malika star.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
10 6:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4;
Public Sept. 11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 4
T-4
A PRETTY FUNNY STORY
Evan Morgan
Rick, a bored family man, witnesses
a neighbor’s embarrassing act and is
eager to report the story back to his
co-workers to become an office hit.
The neighbor, shamed and maniacal,
has other designs and takes
action against his bully by targeting
Rick’s son. Justin Conley and Erin
Hicock topline the 19-minute short.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Public Sept. 7 7:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 3; Public Sept. 8 1:15 p.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4
AMERICAN SISYPHUS
Frieda Luk
A dysfunctional family meets over
Sunday brunch, leaving a young
daughter caught between the
insipid chatter of her family and
her father’s refusal to leave a buffet
table. The commentary on an overindulgent
society stars Rob Roig,
Jody Flynn and Sophia Nisivoccia.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 3
ASIAN GANGS
Lewis Bennett and Calum MacLeod
Bennett, as a documentary filmmaker,
revisits his past, which
includes an elementary schoolyard
fight that led his school principal to
warn “Change your ways, or you’ll
end up in an Asian gang.” Now
Bennett must find out whether, as a
Caucasian, he became a member of
an Asian gang.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 8 11:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 8 6:15
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
9 9 am. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3
BARDO LIGHT
Connor Gaston
A young man accused of killing
his father proclaims his innocence
and tells the police that the TV
set is the real offender. Inspired
by The Tibetan Book of the Dead,
Gaston’s 11-minute film stars Chris
Mackie, Donna Barnfield and
Shaan Rahman.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 7 7:15
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3; Public
Sept. 8 1:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
BAREFOOT
Danis Goulet
Goulet’s coming-of-age tale follows
16-year-old Alyssa in a tightknit
Cree community in northern Saskatchewan
planning to become a
mother and challenged by reality.
The Emily Roberts and Cole Ballantyne
starrer spotlights the pressures
young people face in isolated
Canadian communities as they try
to take control of their lives.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 11 9:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 12 6 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 2; Public Sept. 13 2
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
BROKEN HEART SYNDROME
Dusty Mancinelli
After being dumped by his
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Three men from very different
backgrounds end up in the same
boat — literally — in Jonathan
Williams’ short Canoejacked.
girlfriend while making love, Russ
is diagnosed with a rare disease
known as BHS (broken heart
syndrome). His romance mocked
by a world that never comes to the
rescue, Russ needs to find a cure.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
10 6:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4;
Public Sept. 11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 4
BYDLO
Patrick Bouchard
Inspired by Russian composer
Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an
Exhibition, Bydlo uses a wooden
Polish ox cart picture to portray
an allegory of man and beast as
mankind heads toward disaster.
The clay-sculpture animated short
was produced by the National Film
Board of Canada.
Canadian Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 7 7:15
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3; Public
Sept. 8 1:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
CANOEJACKED
Jonathan Williams
Two fugitives, Vinny and Cisco,
elude the police while being chased
through the woods when they find
a canoe left by its owner, a nudist,
who wants it back. As bullets fly in
their direction, all three men jump
in the canoe. Al Sapienza, Mpho
Koaho and Pat Thornton star.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 3
CRACKIN’ DOWN HARD
Mike Clattenburg
A young man travels to the desert
for some meditation and solitary
TELEFILM CANADA
INVADES BIG APPLE
Manhattan-based Eye on TIFF yields fruit
for emerging Canuck filmmakers By Etan Vlessing
START SPREADING THE NEWS: THE CANADIANS HAVE TAKEN
Manhattan. Even before the Toronto International Film Festival
got underway, Telefilm Canada got Canadian talent in front
of the biggest U.S. film buyers as part of the second annual Eye on
TIFF in New York showcase.
“The idea is to put the spotlight on those films, so when buyers
attend the festival, they already know what to look for,” said Carolle
Brabant, executive director of Telefilm Canada, which funds
Canadian film on behalf of the federal government.
On Aug. 22 at the Crosby Street Hotel Cinema in Manhattan
emerging Canadian filmmakers got the full attention of New York
T-5
hiking, only to see serenity ruined
by a strange man appearing out of
nowhere. Clattenburg’s ludicrously
funny tale stars Nicolas Wright,
Yoursie Thomas and Caitlin Howden.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
10 6:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4;
Public Sept. 11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 4
DEAR SCAVENGERS
Aaron Phelan
A used-appliance shop owner in
Toronto who only has patience
for real customers has to serve
groups of tween girls in his store
on summer camp scavenger hunts.
Hrant Alianak plays the role of
the anti-social store owner, with
Helen Colliander and Erin Pitt
also starring.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 3
FROST
Jeremy Ball
The epic sci-fi thriller follows Nava,
a young Arctic hunter determined
to prove her skills on a dangerous
search for scarce food. At the edge
of the known territory, she makes
a discovery that will call for her to
win the battle in a new world. Frost
is the first Canadian Film Centre
short to shoot in an HD format.
World Premiere
Press & Industry Sept. 10 1:45 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
11 6:30 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4;
Public Sept. 12 4:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 4
HERD LEADER
Chloe Robichaud
Clara leads a solitary life, to the frustration
of her meddling family, until
her spinster aunt’s death has Clara
inherit a disobedient pug. Living
with man’s best friend teaches her a
few new tricks. The Eve Duranceaustarring
short bowed at Cannes.
Canadian Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 3
H’MONG SISTERS
Jeff Wong
Teenage sisters living in mountainous
Vietnam take an American
backpacker on a trek and
find everything changes as they
guide the Western man through
acquisitions, festival programming and exhibitors.
And the New York community received a sneak peak at Canadian
films at TIFF, thanks to a show reel of about 10 titles.
Canadian filmmakers at the North American
industry mixer included Anita Doron, director of The
Lesser Blessed; Sean Garrity, director of My Awkward
Sexual Adventure; Picture Day director Kate Melville;
Brabant and Kazik Radwanski, director of Tower.
The Manhattan showcase comes as American stars are
increasingly more open to working with Canadian directors on
indie projects.
And TIFF wouldn’t be TIFF without a parade of Hollywood stars
seizing the spotlight.
So Telefilm Canada is looking to the Big Apple as a place where
Canadians get onto the radar of U.S. film buyers before the circus
comes to Toronto.
“It brings the spotlight so the [Canadian] films don’t get lost in
the vast amount of films that get presented at TIFF,” Brabant says
of the Eye on TIFF gathering in New York City. THR
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a traditional way of life that has
been threatened and transformed
by economic and colonial forces.
Phung Hoa Hoai Linh, Thuy Anh
and Scott Dean star.
World Premiere
Press & Industry Sept. 8 11:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 8 6:15
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
9 9 am. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3
HORRIBLE THINGS
Vincent Biron
Biron, who won the best Canadian
short film prize at the 2010 Toronto
International Film Festival for
Les Fleurs de l’age, returns with a thematically
linked short about Dede,
Carole and Steve and their attempts
to make amends and assuage their
guilt with gift-giving that falls comically
short. Marc-Antoine Beaudette
and Sebastien David star.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 3
HOW TO BE DEADLY
Nik Sexton
Donnie Dumphy is vulgar, harmless,
a hoser, an underdog and a
loyal friend — but he’s also brokenhearted.
On the eve of St. John’s
biggest dirt bike competition of the
year, he will live a thousand lives.
North American Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 3
I’M BEGINNING TO MISS YOU
Sakay Ottawa
Directed by and starring Ottawa,
the short probes the disappearance
of young man from Manawan,
Quebec, without anyone seeing him
leave. Amid stark images of a Canadian
winter, a brother struggles to
maintain hope, looking for clues on
his search for the lost young man.
Toronto Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 11 9:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 12 6 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 2; Public Sept. 13 2
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
APART
Theodore Ushev
Montreal animator Ushev’s latest
short film calls for the liberation
of imprisoned Iranian filmmakers
as it focuses on the plight of Jafar
Panahi. Using densely layered
rotoscoped images embedded with
Farsi text, Apart is produced by
Marcel Jean and Galile Marion-
Gauvin at L’Unite Centrale as part
of the Jafar Panahi project 2012.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 7 7:15
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3; Public
Sept. 8 1:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
KEEP A MODEST HEAD
Deco Dawson
Jean Benoit, a member of the
French surrealist movement, is
the subject of a biography that
is part narrative, documentary
and animation. Mixing interviews
recorded in Benoit’s Parisian
studio with surrealist-inspired
re-enactments, the Microclimat
Films production deconstructs
documentary conventions to eulogize
a formidable artist.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 7 7:15
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3; Public
Sept. 8 1:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
THE NEAR FUTURE
Sophie Goyette
Robin, a French pilot now living
in Quebec, receives a phone call at
work that turns his world upside
down. Unseen by others, turmoil
fills his mind. He will have to
let the pain in but not yet. The
French-language Near Future,
T-6
Goyette’s sixth short film, stars
Patrice Berthomier.
Canadian Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 10 6:45
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
LET THE DAYLIGHT INTO
THE SWAMP
Jeffrey St. Jules
With a mix of animation, reenactments
and archival evidence,
the National Film Board of Canada
short assembles a three-part 3D
documentary collage that explores
the consequences of parents who
make the difficult decision to give
up their children.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 11 9:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 12 6
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2; Public
Sept. 13 2 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
LIFE DOESN’T FRIGHTEN ME
Stephen Dunn
Celebrating her 13th birthday,
Esther Weary comes to terms with
becoming a woman with the help
of a well-intentioned grandfather
and a nose that leaves her insecure.
There’s sharp writing and
standout performances by Jade
Aspros and Gordon Pinsent in an
exploration of ugliness and beauty.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 8 11:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 8 6:15
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
9 9 am. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3
LINGO
Bahar Noorizadeh
A boy mistakenly starts a fire
in a residential neighborhood,
leaving his mother — an Afghan
immigrant to Canada — a suspect,
according to the police. Protective
of her son and hindered by a
language barrier, the mother has
trouble explaining with certainty
what happened. Shaima Eshan and
Farhad Sarwari star.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:15 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 7
7:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3;
Public Sept. 8 1:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 4
LOST IN MOTION
Ben Shirinian
Choreographed and performed by
Guillaume Cote, principal dancer
with the National Ballet of Canada,
Shirinian’s short portrays a dancer
freed from costumes and sets and
taking flight in a solo performance.
The bravoFact short features a
composition by James LaValle.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 10 6:45
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
MALODY
Philip Barker
As a young and sick woman sits in a
roadside diner, her world is literally
turned upside down. The ensuing
chaos triggers a fateful chain of
events, including seeing her reflection
in the mirror as a little girl. The
short debuted at the Oberhausen
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A vacationing Canadian
is challenged to a unique
test of wills in Patrick
Sisam’s The Pool Date.
International Short Film Festival.
Alex Paxton-Beasley, Ashleigh Warren
and Thomas Huff star.
North American Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 7 7:15
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3; Public
Sept. 8 1:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
MODEL
Dylan Reibling
The second installment of the interactive
artist’s Dead Media trilogy, the
short features an architectural model
builder creating ornate buildings out
of cardboard, paper and glue — until
a new technology threatens to render
his talents obsolete. Peter Pasyk and
Michael Thomas star.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 10 6:45
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema; Public Sept.
11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
NOSTRADAMOS
Maxence Bradley, Elisabeth Olga
Tremblay, Alexandre Lampron
Veering between documentary
and fiction, Nostradamos follows
citizens preparing for the end
of the world in the city of Amos,
Quebec, apparently the safest
place to survive. Made in 72 hours,
Nostradamos portrays varied
human reactions to potential
environmental catastrophe. Ulrick
Cherubin and Veronique Pepin
feature in the cast.
Canadian Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 8 11:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 8 6:15
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
9 9 am. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3
OLD GROWTH
Tess Girard
In the frigid isolation of winter, an
elderly man cuts down and assembles
a cord of wood with nothing
but an ax and a wheelbarrow. What
first appears as a study in landscape
becomes an elegy for nature’s sacrifice
to fuel man’s existence.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 11 9:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 12 6 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 2; Public Sept. 13 2
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
THE POOL DATE
Patrick Sisam
A pasty-skinned Canadian, played
by Mike Beaver, vacationing in
South America and hanging by a
pool surrounded by good-looking
young people faces a sudden test of
wills with Rio after a local stranger
takes his chair and possibly his cocktail.
The short, also starring Adamo
Ruggiero, deals with questions of
sexual desire and invitation.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 3
REFLEXIONS
Martin Thibaudeau
The dark truth reveals itself at a
graveside funeral service as looking
beyond the surface reveals the
deceased’s former life. Tony Robinow,
Nathalie Breuer, Marianne
T-7
Fortier and Rosalie Fortier topline
the English-language short.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 10 6:45
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
SAFE ROOM
Elizabeth Lazebnik
A semi-autobiographical film
about a young Canadian woman
recalling her experience sitting in
a safe room as a child with her family
in Israel during the Gulf War.
Julia Mazour, Valentyn Ovsyuk
and Nataly Model star.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 10 1:45 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 11
6:30 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4;
Public Sept. 12 4:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 4
SHIT GIRLS SAY
Graydon Sheppard
A super-cut of the web series Shit
Girls Say by Graydon Sheppard
and Kyle Humphrey that features
catchphrases women say as spoken
by a man in drag. Juliette Lewis
made a cameo appearance, and the
YouTube phenomenon spawned a
slew of copycat videos.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 12 9:15 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
13 6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;
Public Sept. 14 9:30 a.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 3
PRODUCERS LAB
COOKS UP RESULTS
Emerging filmmakers get the chance to produce
projects from Cronenberg, Reitman By Etan Vlessing
ASHLEY MCKENZIE HAS A HOT TICKET FOR THE TORONTO
International Film Festival. Away from the red carpets
and A-list stars, the Nova Scotia filmmaker with Grassfire
Films won’t be debuting a film in this year’s TIFF lineup.
But she has an invite to the festival’s ninth annual Talent Lab,
an exclusive workshop during the Toronto festival organized by
Telefilm Canada to produce the next David Cronenberg or Jason
Reitman.
McKenzie was chosen from among 500 applicants for the
gathering to sharpen the skills of the country’s emerging filmmakers
by learning from top industry players.
“I’m mostly there to soak up knowledge from
the world’s best filmmakers. So I’m there to be
inspired,” McKenzie says ahead of the four-day
McKenzie event that draws on Telefilm’s track record in talent
development and promotion.
Talent Lab participants will hear guest speakers and take part
in group discussions on their filmmaking craft, while boosting
their skills and confidence to forge sustainable careers.
“I’ll be there to meet new people, to meet new friends,” says
Canadian producer Heather Dahlstrom, another Talent Lab
attendee. “Anytime I’ve been to a festival before, I’ve ended up
working with them in some capacity.
“I’m going to be busy, but it will be fun,” she adds.
This year’s Talent Lab includes such industry mentors as British
producer Stephen Woolley, Canadian doc maker Jennifer Baichwal
and Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directors of What Maisie
Knew, a Sony Pictures Classics title screening at TIFF. THR
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STRUGGLE
Sophie Dupuis
As Ariane prepares to leave
Val-d’Or — and everything else
— behind for the big city, her
attempts to say goodbye to her
brother are complicated by persistent
sexual tension between them.
The portrait of young lust stars
Noemi Lira, Antoine Paquin and
Sonia Vigneault.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 8 11:15 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 8
6:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4;
Public Sept. 9 9 am. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 3
SULLIVAN’S APPLICANT
Jeanne Leblanc
Stuck in a traffic jam on her way
to a job interview in downtown
Montreal, a harried Lucy, played
by Judith Baribeau (Mauvaise
Karma, Trauma), looks beyond
the oppressive traffic and pushy
city pulse to make a connection
with a perfect stranger. Graham
Cuthbertson co-stars.
North American Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 10 1:45 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 11
6:30 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4;
Public Sept. 12 4:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 4
THE TAPE
Matt Austin Sadowski
Julian Richings plays a Toronto
man frantically digging through
his attic for a VHS cassette,
and then facing a 21st century
problem: How does he play it?
As the audience wonders what is
on the tape, Austin Sadowski plays
with our fears that obsolete technology
might erase our collective
memory.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 11 9:15 a.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 12
6 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2;
Public Sept. 13 2 p.m. Bell Lightbox
Cinema 4
THEIR FEAST
Reem Morsi
Following the Egyptian revolution
of 2011, a mother and her children
prepare a celebratory meal to
mark the return of the eldest son
from a prison stay. The timely
short stars Hanan Youseff.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 10 1:45 p.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 11 6:30
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
12 4:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
TUESDAY
Fantavious Fritz
Inspired by a hypothetical grown-up
version of Holden Caulfield’s little
sister Phoebe, Fritz creates an
endearing character who embraces
the awkward, irresponsible and
defining moments of being a twentysomething.
Daiva Zalnieriunas, Jon
Gotlib and Brent Crawford star.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 8 11:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 8 6:15
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
9 9 am. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3
THE DANCING COP
Kelvin Redvers
A surreal musical satire about a
native Canadian man suspected of
theft by an overzealous police officer,
who suddenly breaks from normal
routine. William Belleau and Mikal
Grant star in the song and dance film
choreographed by Joel Sturrock.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 10 1:45 p.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 11 6:30
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
12 4:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
THE GENIUS FROM QUINTINO
Johnny Ma
Ricardo, played by Ricardo Dias, is a
mechanic in the suburb of Quintino
near Rio de Janeiro who can fix
anything, until a child arrives with a
broken fish toy. To repair the toy, the
mechanic must get in touch with his
T-8
forgotten past. Guilherme Ribero
and Pedro Henrique Nery also star in
the Portuguese language short.
North American Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 11 9:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 12 6 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 2; Public Sept. 13 2
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
WITH JEFF
Marie-Eve Juste
The French-language short about
Nyduia, a Haitian Montreal
teenager who goes on a date with
Jeff, a notorious player, debuted
in Cannes as part of the Directors’
Fortnight. The film, from
Montreal-based Voyous Films,
stars Laury Verdieu and Liridion
Rashiti.
North American Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 10 11:45 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 10 6:45
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
11 12:15 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
THE WORST DAY EVER
Sophie Jarvis
Bernard can’t quite seem to get it
right today. The young boy wakes
up to the worst day of his life in a
dark, Tim Burtonesque comedy
about a child’s fear of disappointment.
Jakob Davies, Ingo Holst,
Iris Paluly and Helen Camisa
feature in the 12-minute film.
North American Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 10 1:45 p.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 11 6:30
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
12 4:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
VIVE LA CANADIENNE
Joe Cobden
A lovely afternoon stroll in the
park becomes a dynamic dancing
duel of quick steps and high kicks
between burly men and a joyful
young woman, whose boyfriend
holds her purse. Cobden is a Montreal
actor-director who cut his
teeth as an international touring
street performer at age 11.
Antiviral is the debut
feature from Brandon
Cronenberg, son
of famed Canadian
helmer David.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 8 11:15 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 8 6:15
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public
Sept. 9 9 am. Bell Lightbox Cinema 3
WHEN YOU SLEEP
Ashley McKenzie
Halifax director McKenzie’s second
short film portrays a misfit young
couple who feel trapped in an
unhappy existence, just as they
deal with a rodent infestation in
their slum apartment. The short
stars newcomer Winston DeGiobbi
and Toronto’s Eve Harlow.
McKenzie’s first short, Rhonda’s
Party, starred the French Canadian
actress Karine Vanasse, who
starred on ABC’s Pan Am.
World Premiere
Short Cuts Canada
Press & Industry Sept. 10 1:45 p.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept. 11 6:30
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public Sept.
12 4:45 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
ANTIVIRAL
Brandon Cronenberg
The debut sci-fi film about an
employee at a clinic that sells
injections of live viruses harvested
from sick celebrities comes from
David Cronenberg’s son and offers
a chilling vision of a dystopian
future. The Sarah Gadon and
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debuted in Cannes and was
picked up for the U.S. market by
IFC Films.
North American Premiere
Special Presentations
Press & Industry, September 6 5:00
p.m. Scotiabank 2; Public, September
10 9:00 p.m. Ryerson Theater; Public,
September 12 2:45 p.m. Bloor Hot
Docs Cinema
INCH’ALLAH
Anais Barbeau-Lavalette
From the producing team behind
the Oscar-nominated Monsieur
Lazhar and Incendies comes a
drama about a young obstetrician
working in a Palestinian refugee
camp who is confronted daily by
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and
the people it affects. Evelyne Brochu,
Sabrina Ouazani and Yousef
Sweid star.
World Premiere
Special Presentations
Press & Industry Sept. 9 2:00 p.m.
Scotiabank 8; Public Sept. 8 6:00 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 2; Public Sept. 10
6:45 p.m. Scotiabank 3
LAURENCE ANYWAYS
Xavier Dolan
The Montreal auteur returns to
Toronto with a transgender love
story starring Melvil Poupard and
Suzanne Clément about a man who
tries to hold on to his relationship
with his fiancée after telling her
that he wants to become a woman.
Dolan’s third feature bowed in
Cannes, where his first two films,
Heartbeats and J’ai tue m mere,
won awards.
Toronto Premiere
Special Presentations
Press & Industry Sept. 6 11:00 a.m.
Scotiabank 1; Public Sept. 13 9:00
p.m. Elgin Screening Room ; Public
Sept. 15 9 a.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2
LIVERPOOL
Manon Briand
The Montreal director returns to
Toronto with a thriller-drama about
a coat check attendant in a bar
who decides to take an unclaimed
coat back to its owner, only to find
herself in the middle of criminal
intrigue. The Quebec film stars
Stéphanie Lapointe, Charles-Alexandre
Dubé and Louis Morissette.
Briand’s earlier films included 2
Seconds and Chaos and Desire.
International Premiere
Special Presentations
Press & Industry Sept. 9 11:30 a.m.
Scotiabank 7; Public Sept. 11 9:45 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 2; Public Sept. 13
6:45 p.m. Scotiabank 4
REBELLE
Kim Nguyen
Fifteen-year-old Congolese actress
Rachel Mwanza won the Silver
Bear Award for best actress in
Berlin when Rebelle, known as
War Witch in English, bowed
earlier this year. A breakout film
by the Montreal writer/director,
Nguyen brings to Toronto a love
story involving a child soldier
in Africa caught up in a violent
yet beautiful and magical world.
Marking Mwanza’s screen debut,
Rebelle also stars Alain Bastien
and Serge Kanyinda.
Toronto Premiere
Special Presentation
Press & Industry Sept. 7 2:00 p.m. Scotiabank
3; Public Sept. 14 9 p.m. Elgin
Screening Room; Public Sept. 15 3:00
p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2
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STILL
Michael McGowan
Based on true events, Still has
James Cromwell (Babe) starring as
an 89-year-old New Brunswicker
who faces jail time when the
government tries to stop him from
building a more suitable house
for his wife, played by Geneviève
Bujold, whose health is beginning
to fade. McGowan’s earlier films
One Week, Saint Ralph and Score: A
Hockey Musical, all screened
in Toronto.
World Premiere
Special Presentations
Press & Industry Sept. 11 9:15 a.m.
Scotiabank 3; Public Sept. 10 8:00 p.m.
Winter Garden Theater ; Public Sept. 12
12:45 p.m. at Bell Lightbox Cinema 1
STORIES WE TELL
Sarah Polley
Oscar-nominated writer/director
Sarah Polley brings to Toronto, by
way of the Venice Film Festival, a
genre-twisting documentary from
the National Film Board of Canada
that investigates the secrets behind
a family of storytellers. The Canadian
actor-turned-director unravels
the paradoxes to reveal the essence
of family: a messy, intense and loving
tangle of contradictions.
North American Premiere
Special Presentations
Press & Industry Sept. 7 9:45 a.m.
Scotiabank 1; Public Sept. 7 6 p.m.
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Public Sept. 8
11:45 a.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema 2
I DECLARE WAR
Jason Lapeyre, Robert Wilson
A group of 12-year-old kids play war
in a local forest, but their game gets
out of hand. With overtones of Lord
of the Flies, the kids make their own
guns out of sticks and toys but hear
mortars exploding all around themselves
and dodge bloody shrapnel
from grenades. Gage Munroe, Siam
Yu, Michael Friend, Eric Hanson
and Alex Cardillo star.
World Premiere
Vanguard
Press & Industry Sept. 10 7:00 p.m.
Scotiabank 9; Press & Industry Sept.
12 12:30 p.m. Scotiabank 9; Public
Sept. 9 4:15 p.m. Scotiabank 4; Public
Sept. 11 2:00 p.m. Cineplex Yonge &
Dundas 10; Public Sept. 14 9:45 p.m.
Scotiabank 4
BESTIAIRE
Denis Cote
The unique documentary, a
Canada-France co-production,
explores the human fascination
with animals, especially those
caged in a zoo or stuffed by a taxidermist,
as the film spotlights an
apparently widening gulf between
animals and humans as they both
watch one another.
Canadian Premiere
Wavelengths
Press & Industry September 7 4:30 p.m.
Bell Lightbox Cinema 4; Public September
14 6:30 p.m. Bell Lightbox Cinema
3; Public September 16 10:00 a.m. Bell
Lightbox Cinema 4
A MINIMAL DIFFERENCE
Jean-Paul Kelly
Shot on Super 8 using a multiplane
camera setup, Kelly’s
five-minute short presents
receding-depth images pulled
from Google, Flickr and photojournalism,
each presented as
metaphorical and factual, such
as political protests in Bangkok,
bodies piled after the 2010 Haitian
earthquake and destruction in the
Gaza Strip.
Canadian Premiere
Wavelengths
Public Sept 8 10:00 p.m. Jackman
Hall (AGO)
MANY A SWAN
Blake Williams
Dedicated to Akira Yoshizawa, the
grandmaster of origami, Blake
Williams’ found-footage short film
collapses 15 years of Grand Canyon
history and 65 years of 3D stereoscopic
cinema by way of folding
anaglyphic video planes.
World Premiere
Wavelengths
Public Sept. 7 7:00 p.m. Jackman
Hall (AGO) THR
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SHARING THE WEALTH
During the third annual Producers Lab Toronto this week, European and Canadian producers
are gathering to build cr0ss-continental relationships that could lead to co-productions By Etan Vlessing
GOVERNMENT FILM SUBSIDIES AREN’T WHAT THEY USED
to be. So as the Toronto International Film Festival gets
underway, 24 handpicked European and Canadian film
producers are set to speed date at Producers Lab Toronto
as they pursue one another’s soft money.
To entice a potential partner, the producers must have a preselected
film project in hand for the Sept. 5-8 financing forum with co-production
dollars providing the scent of attraction.
“In the current economic situation that we all face,
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Projects in
development after the
first two editions of the
producers lab
every producer is looking at less funding from domestic
sources, so producers are more and more looking at
co-productions as a way to finance their projects,” Sarah
Timmins, a partner at Toronto-based Corvid Pictures,
explained ahead of attending PLT.
Dwindling government subsidies for indie film in
Canada and Europe also will have co-production virgins in
the room, especially producers looking to go from low- to midbudget
pictures aimed at the international market.
“We’ve been very fortunate to be really supported by the Canadian
funders, but as our projects grow in scope and appeal to an audience
outside of Canada, we have to start looking in other places for project
funding, and that means outside of Canada,” said Aisling Chin-Lee
of Prospector Films.
“Co-productions are the ideal way to raise money if the budget
is over $3 million to $4 million. They are an ideal way to get to that
higher number,” said Daniel Bekerman of Zazie Films, prizing foreign
audiences and financing for his Canadian projects in development.
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Producers from
Europe and Canada
eyeing possible
film funding
The three days of exchanging ideas and information on film funding
and co-productions is organized by the Ontario Media Development
Corp. and European Film Promotion, in association with TIFF.
Expect the Eurozone crisis to be the elephant in the room as the
Europeans look with envy on Canadians, whose domestic film funding
system has seen much less severe cuts.
Yorgos Tsourgiannis (Dogtooth) of Athens-based Horsefly Productions,
faced with limited financing and zero state support in Greece,
is eyeing a possible Canadian partner for his latest project, the
sci-fi/fantasy 1901, by director Yiannis Veslemes, based on a
script by Tsourgiannis and Dimitris Emmanouilidis.
“The idea of a co-production with Canada has always
been a thought in our minds for 1901, even in our first precrisis
talks about the project,” the Greek producer said.
“Somehow both myself and the director were warm to the
idea, and we felt that many of the requirements of the film for
talent and locations could be sought in Canada.”
Other producers at PLT similarly will weigh whether to tailor a film
creatively by adding Canadian or European elements to fill out a budget.
“Of course, times are tough everywhere, so I’m curious — having
always been in the European market — to go for the first time to a
film market in North America for financing,” said Nicole Gerhards of
Germany’s Niko Film. Elsewhere, Icelandic producer Arnar Knutsson
of Filmus Productions is bringing to Toronto his feature project The
Traveler, to be directed by Oskar Thor Axelsson, where the main protagonist
has a soul in three different bodies that live in three different
parts of the world.
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“For part of the day, he lives
in New York City, but that could
be Toronto for that matter,”
Knutsson explained, as he eyes
a possible Canadian co-production
partner.
And Swedish producer Peter
Hiltunen of Illusion Film &
Television has a family film
Hurricane in development as a
Swedish-language project and
will consider making the film in
English if the right Canadian
partner comes along.
“You could have Canadian
writers, a director possibly
and the financing, and then we
can do the film as a Swedish-
Canadian co-production,”
Hiltunen. Christian Juhl
Lemche, president of European
Film Promotion, said an
The Film Farm
just wrapped the
France-Canada
co-production
Foxfire and is seeking
funding for its
next film during the
producers lab.
increasingly globalized film industry has producers
looking outside Europe to create new stories with new
co-production partners.
Conversely, PLT is looking this year for Canadian producers
to collaborate more with smaller European countries, after long
partnering mainly with U.K. and French producers.
“Canada has co-production treaties with around 28 of the member
countries in EFP, and it’s nice to see that some of the smaller European
countries are represented at PLT this year,” Lemche added.
Of course the Canadians, while enjoying a more stable economic
climate, still face dwindling government subsidies at home and are
more than willing to extend a warm handshake to Europeans who
can supply financing and audiences from abroad.
Stephen Traynor of Toronto-based The Film Farm has just completed
the France-Canada co-production Foxfire, the first Englishlanguage
film by French director Laurent Cantet, and is now
developing Last Letter From Your Lover, based on the British novel
by Jojo Moyes and adapted by Canadian screenwriter Esta Spalding.
“Part of the film is shot in London or a European city,” Traynor
Funding is always on the table.
If someone writes a check, I
won’t turn it down.” — ANITA SHARMA
54
Number of films PLT
partner European Film
Promotion is backing
from 19 countries
said ahead of the TIFF industry mixer. “That’s not something we
can do ourselves, so we need to find an appropriate partner to
shoot in Europe.”
Elsewhere, Lauren Grant of Clique Pictures is developing a family
feature, Scavengers, from writers Jason and Sue Bourque.
The Canadian producer believes the sci-fi flick about a genius
teenage farm boy who meets a robot from outer space is ripe for
European partners to complete much-needed visual effects.
“I know, country-wise, that Germany, Romania, Hungary all have
strong visual effects companies. I’m also interested in the U.K. and
France,” Grant said, having tapped German visual effects creators
for Frost, a Canadian short she produced and is set to bow at TIFF.
Cross-border production also figures in Cap Diamant, a film by
writer-director Dominic Desjardins that Rayne Zukerman of Zazie
Films is bringing to PLT.
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The visual effects for the
Canadian short Frost were
done by a German company.
The theatrical drama follows an aspiring actor in Quebec City
who enters a scam with a local art dealer which has the actor pretending
to be French to manipulate tourists.
That could have certain lead roles coming over from France to
structure a potential Canada-France co-production, Zukerman said.
“It’s all about meeting people and developing relationships,” she
said. “I’m still at the stage in my career where it’s hard to get projects
off the ground, so it’s important to forge relationships.”
Elsewhere, Anita Sharma of Studio Entertainment is bringing
Woman in Car to PLT, a feature from director Vanya Rose to be shot
in Montreal and could be ripe for French creative elements.
“Maybe we can find some [French] cast, a music composer,”
Sharma said. “Funding is always on the table. If someone writes a
check, I won’t turn it down.”
And Yanick Letourneau of Montreal-based Perepheria Productions
has a PLT slate in search of co-production partners that
includes Vacationship, a theatrical comedy written by Cynthia
Knight and to be shot mostly in the Caribbean, and X Quinientos,
a second feature at the treatment stage by director Juan Andres
Arrango, who premiered his first film, La Playa, at Cannes in May.
Letourneau said he’s also open to becoming a minority partner
on a Europe-Canada co-production.
“That’s what great about such an event — we will be together for
a couple days, you get to know the people better than five-minute
random meetings, and this is organized,” he said.
And if the chemistry is right, who knows? Some relationships
formed at PLT could be the start of a true cross-border romance. THR
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REVIEWS
Looper
An engaging, neatly worked-out time-travel thriller
with Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing
the same role By Todd McCarthy
LOOPER IS A CLEVER,
entertaining science fiction
thriller that neatly blurs
the line between suicide and
murder. An existential conundrum
wrapped in a narrowly
conceived yarn about victims
sent back in time to be bumped
off by assassins called loopers,
Rian Johnson’s third and most
ambitious feature keeps the
action popping while sustaining
interest in the long arc of a story
about a man assigned to kill the
30-years-older version of himself.
A lively, high-profile choice
to open this year’s Toronto
International Film Festival, this
Sony release co-starring Bruce
Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt
in the same role should chalk up
sizable returns in the wake of its
Sept. 28 theatrical bow.
Probably the shakiest aspect
of Johnson’s original screenplay
is what it asks the viewer to buy
about the future: A mere 62 years
from now, in 2074, time travel
has become possible, but such a
momentous breakthrough is limited
to serving as a body-disposal
system. Under the prevailing
authority, time jumping is strictly
outlawed because of its potential
for messing with history. A large
criminal mob, run by an overlord
called The Rainmaker, defiantly
uses it but only as a vehicle for
assassination, with “loopers” — disreputable
gunmen living in 2044 —
laying in wait for people to execute
so no bodies or other evidence can
be found in the future.
But the premise is established in
nifty fashion; the doomed, hooded
with hands bound behind them,
suddenly materialize in an empty
field, and the looper immediately
blows them away with his blunderbuss.
One such executioner is Joe
(Gordon-Levitt), a retro-looking
hipster who drives a very old red
Miata and wears ties, “a 20th
century affectation” that offends
his crankily genial boss, Abe (Jeff
Daniels). If he can get out of this
racket, he says he’d like to go to
France, which earns him further
scorn from the older man; “I’m
from the future, you should go to
China,” he scolds.
Backed by a cynically confessional
voice-over track from Joe
that is not as self-consciously
hardboiled as the commentary
Gordon-Levitt read for Johnson
in Brick seven years ago, Looper
mostly is set in a seedy metropolis
that doesn’t look all that different
from sketchy neighborhoods in
19
Willis stars as a
man in search of
his wife’s killer.
some big cities today; there are
derelicts, bombed-out buildings,
ruined cars and enough other
signs of urban ills to suggest that,
in Johnson’s view, things will just
gradually decline over the next
three decades.
Joe hangs out in clubs, sees
a sexy woman (Piper Perabo)
who works in one of them and
tries to help a friend and fellow
looper, Seth (Paul Dano), who’s
imminently endangered by a new
development that’s come down
from on high: They’re “closing
all the loops,” meaning they’re
sending the “future selves” of all
the loopers back to be killed.
Almost immediately, Joe is in
the same jam. When, a half-hour
into the film, he goes to the field to
do his next job, the guy who pops
up to be shot is not hooded. Joe’s
hesitation allows the older man to
escape, and it’s clear who he is: It’s
Joe as his older self. And, for his
failure to kill him, young Joe is in
a pile of trouble with Abe and his
“gats,” first-class hired guns.
When the two Joes finally sit
down — across from each other in
a diner in the middle of nowhere
— there’s no doubt they’re working
at cross purposes: Young Joe
is determined to kill his older
self, while old Joe is dead set on
tracking down and taking out The
Rainmaker, who would be a little
kid in 2044, so his late wife won’t
die at his hands after all.
The biggest problem facing the
makers of Looper is how to make
the audience believe that the trim,
long-faced Gordon-Levitt could
somehow change so much in 30
years that he would look like the
thicker-built and shorter-nosed
Willis. The solution lay in altering
the younger actor’s appearance,
imperceptibly at first, but gradually
to morph his dark eyes into
Willis’ gray-green and to reshape
his nose and eyebrows, either with
makeup or digitally or perhaps
both. At first, the effect is a bit
odd, and you can’t quite put your
finger on what’s off; then it feels
downright weird to be looking at a
version of Gordon-Levitt who is no
longer the actor you’ve known for a
few years now.
This is especially noticeable
during the film’s second half, much
of which takes place at young
Joe’s place of refuge, the isolated
home of feisty young farmer and
single mom Sara (Emily Blunt),
who has an unusually gifted son,
Cid (Pierce Gagnon). Even as
the temperature is kept at a low
simmer, the film’s pace deliberately
is slowed here to develop
some intimacy between these two
isolated people and give some
screen time to the kid, who pretty
obviously will provide the reason
for old Joe to eventually head for
the farm. The eventual ending is
great, the resolution to the tricky
time maneuvering very impressively
worked out.
Shot mostly in Louisiana, with
a bit done in Shanghai, the film
looks tightly made on a budget
but sacrifices nothing for that; the
world depicted looks dirty, dangerous
and ramshackle, with a few
high-tech touches here and there.
Their physical disparity notwithstanding,
Gordon-Levitt and
Willis both come across strongly,
while Blunt effectively reveals
Sara’s tough and vulnerable sides.
Daniels is particularly amusing
as the garrulous old enforcer
holding down the future’s outpost
in the past.
Production Companies
FilmDistrict, Endgame
Entertainment, DMG Entertainment,
Ram Bergman Prods.
Writer-director Rian Johnson
Cast Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-
Levitt, Emily Blunt
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REVIEWS
Franco stars as
a wanna-be gangsta
who adopts a posse
of bad girls.
Spring Breakers
James Franco, Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens hit the beach and
the bong in eternal maverick Harmony Korine’s latest By David Rooney
EVEN BY THE ELASTIC MEASURE OF
James Franco’s unpredictable career,
the actor gives one of his more bizarre
performances in Harmony Korine’s Spring
Breakers. Playing a Florida white-trash
gangsta with beaded cornrows and a
gleaming mouthful of metal, he’s a cross
between Bo Derek in 10 and Richard Kiel in
Moonraker. At one point he sits poolside at
a cheesy white grand piano and sings a Britney
Spears ballad while three coeds in DTF
pants and pink ski masks do an impromptu
dance routine with AK-47s.
Sounds good? Well, like the film as a
whole, Franco’s borderline parodistic performance
is interesting only up to a point. It
might be one of Korine’s more conventional
narratives, but this is basically a porn-
pulp snort of derision at the American
Dream and the youthful search for self,
packaged as Beach Blanket Bingo on acid.
It has hypnotic visual style and a dense,
driving soundscape. But it’s also too
monotonous and thematically empty to
be seriously provocative.
More than by Franco, the film’s profile will
be boosted by the presence of former Disney
Channel cuties Selena Gomez and Vanessa
Hudgens among all the bong-hitting, boozing,
coke-snorting, breast-baring, grinding
bodies. “Poetry in motion” is how Franco’s
drug-dealing rapper Alien describes the
crowd at a beach beer blast. “Bikinis and big
booties, y’all. That’s what life is about.”
Gomez plays the pointedly named Faith,
a Christian youth group member who has
somehow remained close to three reprobate
skanks she has known since kindergarten:
Candy (Hudgens), Brit (Ashley Benson) and
Cotty (Rachel Korine, the writer-director’s
wife). Cotty has pink highlights and a sullen
streak, while interchangeable Candy and Brit
are defined only by their slutty blondness.
Desperate to get out of their dull college
town but short on cash, the bad girls wield
fake guns and hammers to hold up a Chicken
Shack, terrorizing the customers. The
adrenaline rush they get from this taste of
violent crime hints at what’s to come.
Even before they hit Florida, the action
time-shuffles Girls Gone Wild/MTV-style
montages of hard-partying college kids in
various stages of inebriation and undress.
Faith seems unsettled when her pals re-enact
the robbery for her, but she nonetheless partakes
of the proceeds as the four girls cruise
around town on rented scooters.
Here and throughout, voice-over is featured
heavily, much of it vapid stuff about wanting
all this to last forever. Korine and editor
Douglas Crise use repetition in the images
and dialogue to obsessive effect. Cinematographer
Benoit Debie’s visuals, with their sunblasted
exteriors, pink skies, neon splashes
and candy color washes, have a cool allure.
And the electronic score by Cliff Martinez and
dubstep musician Skrillex that saturates every
scene (along with a sprinkling of chart hits)
is no less propulsive than Martinez’s music
was in Drive or Contagion. But there’s a nagging
sense that a sliver of substance has been
pumped full of growth hormones in post.
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When the girls are arrested during
a bust at a druggy party, they are hauled in
their bikini tops and cutoffs before a judge
who orders them to pay a fine or spend
another night in the lockup. “This wasn’t
supposed to happen,” says Faith in whispery
voice-over. “This can’t be the end of the
dream.” In fact, it’s the beginning of the
dream, as Korine steers things in a more hallucinogenic
direction.
Alien covers the babes’ bail, and while
they question his motives, they climb aboard
his pimped-out sports car. A dim bulb with
lots of swagger, he paints a self-glorifying
picture of himself, flashing wads of cash
and an arsenal of weaponry. In one of many
instances of Korine having fun with metatextual
cine-references, Alien’s flat screen plays
Scarface on a loop.
Faith becomes uncomfortable at his
sleazy crib. After a tense exchange in which
he comes on strong — nicely played by
Gomez — she extricates herself from the
situation and takes the bus home. Alien
insists on the other girls remaining, which
signals their endangerment. But it turns out
they can more than hold their own.
Like ducks to water, they slip into his
crime crew, provide girl-on-girl entertainment
and flip sexual domination roles with
the receptive Alien. It soon becomes apparent
that he has nothing on these girls in
terms of their appetite for excess and amorality.
Cotty takes off after being wounded
by a bullet from Alien’s turf rival Archie
(Gucci Mane), and Candy and Brit lead the
charge as they strike back. That they do this
in matching fluoro-yellow bikinis underlines
that the bacchanal is primarily a pop-art
exercise — a sour lollipop that loses its flavor.
However it’s intended, the attitudinal
posing curbs any capacity to shock. From
the minute Alien steps in, the film becomes
like a more extreme version of one of those
Saturday Night Live video sketches, with
Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg
flaunting exaggerated hip-hop style.
The setting and aspects of the
aesthetic will attract comparison to this
summer’s Magic Mike. But while Korine
douses the air with dreamy melancholia,
Steven Soderbergh’s film came by its underlying
sense of emptiness and restless longing
far more naturally. That said, Spring Breakers
seems bound to acquire at least minor
cult status.
Production Companies Muse Productions,
Rabbit Bandini Productions, Radar Pictures
Director-screenwriter Harmony Korine
Cast James Franco, Selena Gomez,
Vanessa Hudgens
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REVIEWS
The Company You Keep
Robert Redford makes a welcome return to double-duty
as director and lead actor By David Rooney
ROBERT REDFORD DOES HIS
most compelling work in
some time as both actor
and director in The Company
You Keep, a tense yet admirably
restrained thriller about a fugitive
forced out of hiding after
30 years to prove his innocence.
Adapted with clarity and intelligence
by Lem Dobbs from
Neil Gordon’s novel and lent
distinguishing heft by its roster
of screen veterans, this gripping
drama provides an absorbing
reflection on the courage and
cost of dissent.
Recalling aspects of Sidney
Lumet’s poignant Running
on Empty from 1988, but with
a more subdued emotional
palette, the film opens with
vintage-style news footage
detailing charges against members
of radical antiwar group the
Weather Underground in the
early 1970s for plotting to blow
up buildings in multiple U.S.
cities. A second report follows,
attributing responsibility to the
same group for a Michigan bank
robbery during which a security
guard was killed. While the
robbers were identified, only one
was apprehended.
Hotel Transylvania
A scarily unfunny animated monster movie
that goes awry right off the bat
By Michael Rechtshaffen
T HE
SECOND FEATURE IN AS MANY
months to contain animated zombies
(with Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie
lurking just around the corner), Hotel Transylvania
checks in as an anemic example of
pure concept over precious little content.
Despite the proven talents of first-time
feature director Genndy Tartakovsky
(Dexter’s Laboratory), writers Peter Baynham
(Arthur Christmas) and SNL vet Robert
Smigel and a voice cast headed by Adam
Sandler and Andy Samberg, the collaboration
falls flat virtually from the get-go,
serving up half-hearted sight gags that have
a habit of landing with an ominous thud.
Back in the present, Sharon
Solarz (Susan Sarandon), who
was involved in the robbery
and has been living in hiding
as a Vermont housewife in the
decades since, is preparing
to turn herself in to the FBI
when she is arrested entering
New York state. Coverage from
aggressive young Albany newspaper
reporter Ben Shepard
(Shia LaBeouf) links her to local
civil rights lawyer Jim Grant
(Redford), who declined to take
Solarz’s case.
Eager to impress his prickly
editor (Stanley Tucci), Ben
exploits his access to Diana
(Anna Kendrick), a college
hookup now working for the
bureau. Despite warnings from
her boss Cornelius (Terrence
Howard) to back off, Ben
persists, digging for insights.
His legwork reveals that while
Jim has long been a respected
community member, raising his
11-year-old daughter Isabel (Jacqueline
Evancho) alone since the
death of his wife in an accident
a year earlier, no record of him
exists before 1979. Putting two
and two together, Ben discovers,
just ahead of the feds, that
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LaBeouf plays a young
reporter who delves into
the mysterious past of a
civil rights lawyer.
Jim is Nick Sloan, another of the
Michigan robbers.
This establishing action is set
up with methodical efficiency
in Dobbs’ screenplay, gaining
momentum when Jim/Nick
whisks Isabel out of town and
into the care of his brother (Chris
Cooper) just as the FBI is closing
in. Meanwhile, Ben continues to
look for neat answers to messy
questions. But a prison interview
with Sharon gives him some
understanding of the commitment
and idealism of the
’70s radicals. This affecting
scene is played with perspicacity,
toughness and compassion
by Sarandon.
Propelled by another moody
score from Cliff Martinez
(Drive, Contagion) that adds a
contemporary edge to Redford’s
solidly conventional style, the
remainder of the film plays out
in pursuit mode.
While it provides for some
Being given a public airing at the Toronto
International Film Festival ahead of its
official Sept. 28 opening, the film could
benefit initially from a monster marketing
push from Sony, but it’s unlikely the “No
Vacancy” sign will be lit for long.
Assuming an unsteady Transylvanian
accent which, like his bat wings, tends to
flit in and out of the picture, Sandler’s
overprotective daddy Dracula is having
trouble shielding his daughter Mavis (Selena
Gomez) from outside elements on the eve
of her 118th birthday. Determined to shut
himself off from those elements after the
death of his wife a century or so earlier at
the hands of an angry mob, Dracula had
constructed a refuge of an exclusive resort
where he and his monstrous ilk could feel
free to be themselves.
For the most part, there’s just a lot of
Dracula shields
his daughter in
a monsters-only
hideout
passing commentary on the
journalistic process and the slow
death of print media, making the
ambitious reporter such a driving
figure perhaps mutes the focus
a little. LaBeouf acquits himself
well in the role. But tracking
Ben’s slow-blooming integrity is
a somewhat prosaic detour in the
concluding scenes, occasioning
some speechy wisdom from Nick
when they finally meet again.
The storytelling is nonetheless
robust and thematically
rich, strengthened by a fine cast.
Redford has done this kind of
earnest man of conscience countless
times before, but he brings
such gravitas and thoughtfulness
to play that he keeps us firmly in
Nick’s corner.
Production companies Voltage
Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises
Cast Robert Redford, Shia
LaBeouf, Julie Christie
Director: Robert Redford
dashing about the hotel’s cavernous hallways
as the assembled voice cast attempts to
lend some personality to the underdeveloped
characters.
Production companies Sony Pictures
Animation
Director Genndy Tartakovsky
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FESTIVAL SCREENING GUIDE
TODAY
8:30 White Elephant
(P&I) Special Presentation
Cinema 3
8:45 The Pervert’s Guide to
Ideology (P&I) Mavericks
Scotiabank 3
9:00 Three Worlds (P&I)
Contemporary World Cinema
Scotiabank 8; Dredd
3D (P&I) Midnight Madness
Scotiabank 13; Barbara
(P&I) Contemporary World
Cinema Cinema 2
9:15 Short Cuts Canada:
Programme #1 - 2012 (P&I)
Short Cuts Canada; Cinema
4 - Paul & Leah Atkinson
Family Cinema; Lore (P&I)
Special Presentation Scotiabank
2; Fill the Void (P&I)
Discovery Scotiabank 11;
Clandestine Childhood
(P&I) Contemporary World
Cinema Scotiabank 6
9:30 Spring Breakers (P&I)
Special Presentation Scotiabank
4; Midnight’s Children
(P&I) Gala Presentation
Cinema 1; Lunarcy! (P&I)
TIFF Docs Scotiabank 9
9:45 Therese Desqueyroux
(P&I) Special Presentation
Scotiabank 10; Stories
We Tell (P&I) Special
Presentation Scotiabank
1; God Loves Caviar (P&I)
Contemporary World
Cinema Cinema 5 - NBC
Universal Cinema
10:00 Pusher (P&I) Vanguard
Scotiabank 5; Jackie
(P&I) Contemporary World
Cinema Scotiabank 7
10:45 The Interval (P&I)
Discovery Cinema 3
11:15 Post Tenebras Lux
(P&I) Wavelengths Scotiabank
8; Hotel Transylvania
(P&I)TIFF Kids Scotiabank 13
11:30 Out in the Dark (P&I)
Discovery Scotiabank 11;
No (P&I) Special Presentation
Scotiabank 3; On
the Road (Public) Special
Presentation The Bloor Hot
Docs Cinema
11:45 Mekong Hotel
preceded by Big in Vietnam
(P&I) Wavelengths
Scotiabank 9; London - The
Modern Babylon (P&I)
TIFF Docs Scotiabank 2;
Imagine (P&I) Contemporary
World Cinema
Scotiabank 6
12:00 The We and the I
(P&I) Vanguard Cinema 2;
The Central Park Five (P&I)
TIFF Docs Scotiabank 4;
Ernest & Célestine (P&I)
TIFF Kids Cinema 4 - Paul
& Leah Atkinson Family
Cinema; A Few Hours
of Spring (P&I) Special
Presentation Scotiabank 10;
Rust and Bone (Public)
Special Presentation
Ryerson Theatre
12:15 When Night Falls
(P&I) Wavelengths Scotiabank
5; Reincarnated (P&I)
TIFF Docs Scotiabank 1
12:30 The End of Time (P&I)
Masters Scotiabank 7; Far
Out Isn’t Far Enough: The
Tomi Ungerer Story (P&I)
TIFF Docs Cinema 5 - NBC
Universal Cinema; The War
of the Volcanoes: Bergman
& Magnani preceded by
Stromboli (Public) TIFF
Cinematheque Cinema 3
12:45 The Perks of Being
a Wallflower (P&I) Special
Presentation Cinema 1;
Blancanieves (P&I) Discovery
Scotiabank 8
14:00 Watchtower (P&I)
Contemporary World Cinema
Scotiabank 5; Rebelle
(P&I) Special Presentation
Scotiabank 3; Paradise:
Love (P&I) Contemporary
World Cinema Cinema 4 -
Paul & Leah Atkinson Family
Cinema; Crimes of Mike
Recket (P&I) Contemporary
World Cinema Scotiabank 9;
Children of Sarajevo (Public)
Contemporary World
Cinema Cineplex Yonge &
Dundas 3
14:15 Picture Day (P&I)
Discovery Scotiabank 6; Camp
14: Total Control Zone (P&I)
TIFF Docs Scotiabank 10
14:30 The Sessions (P&I)
Special Presentation
Scotiabank 1; Home Again
(P&I) Contemporary World
Cinema Scotiabank 11; Dangerous
Liaisons (P&I) Gala
Presentation Scotiabank 4;
Ship of Theseus (Public)
City to City Cineplex Yonge &
Dundas 7
14:45 The Fifth Season
(P&I) Wavelengths
Cinema 5 - NBC Universal
Cinema; Sightseers (P&I)
Vanguard Scotiabank 2
15:00 Something In The
Air (P&I) Masters Cinema
A drug dealer
helps four college
girls finance their
party time in
Spring Breakers.
2; Augustine (P&I) Discovery
Scotiabank 7; The
Gatekeepers (Public) TIFF
Docs The Bloor Hot Docs
Cinema; Paradise: Love
(Public) Contemporary
World Cinema Cineplex
Yonge & Dundas 6; Imogene
(Public) Special Presentation
Ryerson Theatre; Kinshasa
Kids (Public) Contemporary
World Cinema Cineplex
Yonge & Dundas 9
15:15 The Great Kilapy
(Public) Contemporary
World Cinema Cineplex
Yonge & Dundas 2
16:00 After the Battle
(Extended Q&A - 2nd Public)
Contemporary World Cinema
Cinema 3
16:15 Blackbird (P&I)
Discovery Scotiabank
9; Artifact (P&I) TIFF Docs
Cinema 1
16:30 The Sapphires
(P&I) Special Presentation
Scotiabank 3; Bestiaire (P&I)
Wavelengths Cinema
4 - Paul & Leah Atkinson
Family Cinema
16:45 The Suicide Shop
(P&I) Special Presentation
Scotiabank 1; A Liar’s Autobiography:
The Untrue
Story of Monty Python’s
Graham Chapman
(P&I) Special Presentation
Scotiabank 2
17:00 Mushrooming (P&I)
Discovery Cinema 5 - NBC
Universal Cinema; John Dies
at the End (P&I) Midnight
Madness Scotiabank 11; Dormant
Beauty (P&I) Special
Presentation Scotiabank 4
17:15 Student (P&I) Masters
Scotiabank 7
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17:30 Kon-tiki (Public)
Special Presentation Winter
Garden Theatre
17:45 Three Kids preceded
by Peripeteia (Public)
Contemporary World Cinema
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 3
18:00 The Place Beyond
the Pines (Public) Special
Presentation Princess of
Wales; The Perverts Guide to
Ideology (Public) Mavericks
Isabel Bader Theatre; Stories
We Tell (Public) Special Presentation
The Bloor Hot Docs
Cinema; Spring Breakers
(Public) Special Presentation
Ryerson Theatre; Shanghai
(Public) City to City
Cinema 2; Call Girl (Public)
Discovery Cineplex Yonge &
Dundas 7; Anna Karenina
(35mm Elgin) Special Presentation
Visa Screening Room
(Elgin); All That Matters is
Past (Public) Contemporary
World Cinema Cineplex Yonge
& Dundas 9
18:15 Janeane From Des
Moines (Public) Discovery
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2
18:30 Zabana! (Public)
Contemporary World Cinema
Cinema 4 - Paul & Leah
Atkinson Family Cinema;
Roman Polanski: Odd
Man Out (Public) TIFF Docs
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 6;
Out in the Dark (Public)
Discovery Cineplex Yonge &
Dundas 10; Argo (Public)
Gala Presentation Roy
Thomson Hall
18:45 Berberian Sound
Studio (P&I) Vanguard
Scotiabank 9; The We and
the I (Public) Vanguard
Scotiabank 1; Reincarnated
(Public) TIFF Docs Cinema 1;
Gone Fishing (Public)
Contemporary World Cinema
Scotiabank 2
19:00 Reality (P&I) Special
Presentation Scotiabank 3;
Wavelengths #1 - 2012:
Under a Pacific Sun
(Public) Wavelengths Jackman
Hall (AGO)
19:15 Road North (P&I)
Contemporary World Cinema
Cinema 5 - NBC Universal
Cinema; Short Cuts Canada:
Programme #1 - 2012
(Public) Short Cuts Canada
Cinema 3
19:30 Mumbai’s King (P&I)
City to City Scotiabank 11;
Sleepers Wake (Public)
Contemporary World Cinema
Scotiabank 4
20:45 The Holy Quarternity
(Public) Contemporary World
Cinema Cineplex Yonge &
Dundas 2
21:00 The Master (Public)
Special Presentation
Princess of Wales; The Deep
(Public) Special Presentation
Cinema 2; Pusher
(Public) Vanguard The Bloor
Hot Docs Cinema; Men At
Lunch (Public) TIFF Docs
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9;
Him, Here, After (Public)
Contemporary World Cinema
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 6;
Ginger and Rosa (Public)
Special Presentation Visa
Screening Room (Elgin); 7
Boxes (Public) Discovery
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 3
21:15 Wasteland (Public)
Discovery Scotiabank 2; Thy
Womb (Public) Contemporary
World Cinema Cinema 4 - Paul
& Leah Atkinson Family
Cinema; Fidaï (Public) TIFF
Docs Cineplex Yonge
& Dundas 10
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FESTIVAL SCREENING GUIDE
21:30 Blondie (P&I)
Vanguard Scotiabank 11;
What Maisie Knew (Public)
Gala Presentation Roy
Thomson Hall; Like Someone
in Love (Public) Masters
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7;
How to Make Money Selling
Drugs (Public) TIFF Docs
Scotiabank 1; Frances Ha
(Public) Special Presentation
Ryerson Theatre
21:45 Shahid (P&I) City to
City Cinema 5 - NBC Universal
Cinema; The Land of Hope
(Public) Contemporary World
Cinema Winter Garden Theatre;
Picture Day (Public) Discovery
Isabel Bader Theatre;
Perret in France and Algeria
(Public) Wavelengths Cinema
3; Me and You (Public)
Masters Scotiabank 3; Dead
Europe (Public) Contemporary
World Cinema Cinema 1
22:00 In the Name of Love
(Public) Contemporary World
Cinema Scotiabank 4
23:59 Seven Psychopaths
(Public) Midnight Madness
Ryerson Theatre
TOMORROW
8:30 The Place Beyond the
Pines (P&I) Special Presentation
Scotiabank 2
8:45 What Maisie Knew (P&I)
Gala Presentation Scotiabank
1; Roman Polanski: Odd Man
Out (P&I) TIFF Docs Cinema 3
9:00 The Master (P&I) Special
Presentation Cinema 1; Perret
in France and Algeria (P&I)
Wavelengths Scotiabank 6;
My Awkward Sexual Adventure
(P&I) Contemporary
World Cinema Cinema 4 -
Paul & Leah Atkinson Family
Cinema; In the Name of Love
(P&I) Contemporary World
Cinema Scotiabank 8; Reincarnated
(Public) TIFF Docs
The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema;
Out in the Dark (Public)
Discovery Cineplex Yonge &
Dundas 6
9:15 Zabana! (P&I) Contemporary
World Cinema
Cinema 5 - NBC Universal
Cinema; The Deep (P&I)
Special Presentation Scotiabank
10; Quartet (P&I)
Special Presentation
Cinema; Love is All You Need
(P&I) Special Presentation
Scotiabank 13; Ginger and
Rosa (P&I) Special Presentation
Scotiabank 3; Paradise:
Love (Public) Contemporary
World Cinema Isabel
Bader Theatre
9:30 Mea Maxima Culpa:
Silence in the House of God
(P&I) TIFF Docs Scotiabank 9;
Janeane From Des Moines
(P&I) Discovery Scotiabank
4; Shanghai (Public) City to
City Cineplex Yonge & Dundas
7; Me and You (Public)
Masters Cineplex Yonge &
Dundas 2; Far Out Isnt Far
Enough: The Tomi Ungerer
Story (Public) TIFF Docs
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9
9:45 Gone Fishing (P&I)
Contemporary World Cineman
Scotiabank 7; Children
of Sarajevo (Public) Contemporary
World Cinema
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 3
10:00 Rhino Season
(P&I) Special Presentation
Scotiabank 11
The documentary
How to Make Money
Selling Drugs
features interviews
with dealers,
prison guards and
anti-drug lobbyists.
10:30 Museum Hours (P&I)
Contemporary World Cinema
Scotiabank 5
10:45 Inescapable (P&I)
Gala Presentation Cinema 3
11:00 Frances Ha (P&I)
Special Presentation
Scotiabank 1; The Place
Beyond the Pines (Public)
Special Presentation
Ryerson Theatre; Argo (Public)
Gala Presentation Visa
Screening Room (Elgin)
11:15 Short Cuts Canada:
Programme #2 - 2012 (P&I)
Short Cuts Canada Cinema 4
- Paul & Leah Atkinson Family
Cinema; Dead Europe
(P&I) Contemporary World
Cinema Scotiabank 3
11:30 No Place on Earth
(P&I) TIFF Docs Scotiabank
4; Night Across the Street
(P&I) Masters Scotiabank 6
11:45 The Deflowering of
Eva van End (P&I) Discovery
Scotiabank 9; Lines of
Wellington (P&I) Special
Presentation Cinema 5 - NBC
Universal Cinema; The We
and the I (Public) Vanguard
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 6;
Stories We Tell (Public)
Special Presentation
Cinema 2
12:00 When Day Breaks
(P&I) Masters Scotiabank 8;
Everybody Has a Plan (P&I)
Special Presentation
Scotiabank 13; 9.79*
(Public) TIFF DocsThe
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema;
Frances Ha (Public) Special
Presentation Winter
Garden Theatre
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12:15 Twice Born (P&I)
Gala Presentation Scotiabank
2; The Holy Quaternity
(P&I) Contemporary
World Cinema Scotiabank
11; The Great Kilapy (Public)
Contemporary World
Cinema Cineplex Yonge
& Dundas 10; The End of
Time (Public) Masters
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2;
Anna Karenina (Public)
Special Presentation Isabel
Bader Theatre
12:30 90 Minutes (P&I)
Vanguard Scotiabank 7;
Dredd 3D (Public) Midnight
Madness Cineplex Yonge &
Dundas 7; All That Matters
is Past (Public) Contemporary
World Cinema
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9
12:45 Igor & the Cranes
Journey (Public) TIFF Kids
Cinema 3; What Maisie
Knew (Public) Gala Presentation
Cinema 1; Three Kids
preceded by Peripeteia
(Public) Contemporary
World Cinema Cineplex
Yonge & Dundas 3
13:00 Gebo and the
Shadow (P&I) Masters
Scotiabank 1; Tabu
(Public) Wavelengths
Jackman Hall (AGO)
13:15 Ship of Theseus (P&I)
City to City Scotiabank 10;
Short Cuts Canada: Programme
#1 - 2012 (Public)
Short Cuts Canada
Cinema 4 - Paul & Leah
Atkinson Family Cinema
13:30 Thy Womb (P&I)
Contemporary World
Cinema Scotiabank 5;
Thermae Romae (Public)
Gala Presentation Roy
Thomson Hall
13:45 Outrage Beyond (P&I)
Special Presentation
Scotiabank 3
14:00 How to Make Money
Selling Drugs (P&I) TIFF
Docs Scotiabank 4; Gangs
of Wasseypur: Part One
(P&I) City to City Scotiabank
9; 7 Boxes (P&I) Discovery
Scotiabank 6
14:15 Wasteland (P&I)
Discovery Scotiabank 11; All
That You Possess (P&I)
Masters Scotiabank 8
14:30 More Than Honey
(P&I) TIFF Docs Scotiabank
13; West of Memphis
(Public) Mavericks Ryerson
Theatre; Much Ado About
Nothing (Public) Special
Presentation Visa Screening
Room (Elgin); Hotel
Transylvania (Public)
TIFF Kids Princess of Wales
15:00 The Walls of Dakar
preceded by Joe Ouakam
(P&I) TIFF Docs Cinema
5 - NBC Universal Cinema;
End of Watch (P&I) Special
Presentation Scotiabank 2;
Call Girl (P&I) Discovery
Scotiabank 7; Satellite
Boy (Public) Discovery
Cinema 2; Imogene (Public)
Special Presentation The
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
15:15 The Color of the Chameleon
(Public) Discovery
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas
2; Jackie (Public) Contemporary
World Cinema
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7;
First Comes Love (Public)
TIFF Docs Cineplex Yonge &
Dundas 10; Blancanieves
(Public) Discovery Cinema
3; The Master (Public)
Special Presentation
Cinema 1
15:30 The Brass Teapot
(Public) Discovery Isabel
Bader Theatre; Seven
Psychopaths (Public) Midnight
Madness Scotiabank
1; Picture Day (Public)
Discovery Cineplex Yonge
& Dundas 6; Men at Lunch
(Public) TIFF Docs Cineplex
Yonge & Dundas 9
15:45 Comrade Kim Goes
Flying (Public) Contemporary
World Cinema
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas
3; Bitter Ash (Public) TIFF
Cinematheque Cinema
4 - Paul & Leah Atkinson
Family Cinema
16:00 differently, Molussia
(Public) Wavelengths Jackman
Hall (AGO)
16:15 Hannah Arendt (P&I)
Special Presentation
Scotiabank 3
16:30 A Late Quartet (P&I)
Special Presentation Scotiabank
4; Everybody Has a
Plan (Public WG + S2)
Special Presentation Winter
Garden Theatre
16:45 Come Out and Play
(P&I) Midnight Madness
Scotiabank 11
17:15 Gangs of Wasseypur:
Part Two (P&I) City to City
Scotiabank 9; Baby Blues
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(P&I) Contemporary World
Cinema Cinema 5 - NBC
Universal Cinema
18:00 The Land of Hope
(P&I) Contemporary World
Cinema Scotiabank 7;
Cloud Atlas (P&I) Special
Presentation Scotiabank 2;
Road North (Public) Contemporary
World Cinema
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9;
Painless (Public) Vanguard
The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema;
Inch’Allah (Public) Special
Presentation Cinema 2;
Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a
Pimp (Public) TIFF Docs
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas
7; Cloud Atlas (Public)
Special Presentation Princess
of Wales; Amour (Public)
Masters Visa Screening
Room (Elgin)
18:15 The Perks of Being
a Wallflower (Public)
Special Presentation
Ryerson Theatre; The Land
of Eb (Public) Discovery
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2;
Short Cuts Canada: Programme
#2 - 2012 (Public)
Short Cuts Canada
Cinema 4 - Paul & Leah
Atkinson Family Cinema;
Kon-tiki (Public) Special
Presentation Cineplex Yonge
& Dundas 6
18:30 The Lebanese Rocket
Society (Public) Wavelengths
Cinema 3; Silver
Linings Playbook (Public)
Gala Presentation Roy
Thomson Hall; Night Across
the Street (Public) Masters
Isabel Bader Theatre;
Lunarcy! (Public) TIFF Docs
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas
10; Capital (Public) Special
Presentation Scotiabank 1
18:45 Love, Marilyn (P&I)
Gala Presentation Scotiabank
4; Everyday (Public)
Masters Cinema 1
19:00 American Masters:
Inventing David Geffen
(P&I) Mavericks Scotiabank
11; The Girl From the South
(Public) TIFF Docs Jackman
Hall (AGO); The End
(Public) Contemporary
World Cinema Scotiabank
3; Les Nuits avec Theodore
(Public) Discovery
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 3
19:30 Juvenile Offender
(P&I) Contemporary World
Cinema Cinema 5 - NBC
Universal Cinema
20:00 The Last Supper
(Public) Special Presentation
Winter Garden Theatre
21:00 Peaches Does
Herself (P&I) Vanguard
Scotiabank 9; The Attack
(Public) Special Presentation
Cinema 2; Thanks for
Sharing (Public) Special
Presentation Ryerson
Theatre; Something in the
Air (Public) Masters Visa
Screening Room (Elgin);
London - The Modern Babylon
(Public) TIFF Docs The
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; 90
Minutes (Public) Vanguard
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Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2;
Roman Polanski: Odd Man
Out (Public) TIFF Docs
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 10
21:15 The Cremator (Public)
Contemporary World Cinema
Cinema 4 - Paul & Leah
Atkinson Family Cinema;
The Act of Killing (Public)
TIFF Docs Scotiabank
4; Wasteland (Public)
Discovery Cineplex Yonge
& Dundas 9
21:30 Aftershock (P&I)
Midnight Madness Scotiabank
11; Yellow (Public)
Special Presentation
Cineplex Yonge & Dundas
7; Watchtower (Public)
Contemporary World
Cinema Cinema 3; The
Reluctant Fundamentalist
(Public) Gala Presentation
Roy Thomson Hall; Shores
of Hope (Public) Contemporary
World Cinema
Scotiabank 2; Once Upon a
Time Was I, Veronica (Public)
Contemporary World
Cinema Cineplex Yonge &
Dundas 3
21:45 Eat Sleep Die (P&I)
Discovery Cinema 5 -
NBC Universal Cinema;
Underground (Public)
Contemporary World
Cinema Cineplex Yonge &
Dundas 6; The Secret Disco
Revolution (Public) TIFF
Docs Scotiabank 3; Tai Chi
0 (Public) Special Presentation
Scotiabank 1; Mumbais
King (Public) City to City
Isabel Bader Theatre; End of
Watch (Public) Special Presentation
Princess of
Wales; A Liar’s Autobiography:
The Untrue Story
of Monty Python’s Graham
Chapman (Public) Special
Presentation Cinema 1
22:00 Wavelengths 2:
Documenta (Public) Wavelengths
Jackman Hall (AGO)
23:59 No One Lives (Public)
Midnight Madness Ryerson
Theatre THR
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TORONTO MEMORIES
1929
CANADIAN GOLD
She was born Gladys Marie Smith in Toronto, but it was as Mary Pickford
that she would become “America’s Sweetheart.” In 1929 she became
the first Canadian to win an Oscar, for her starring role in Coquette.
Pickford, pictured here with MPAA president William C. DeMille, cut
her trademark ringlets for the role and such was her star power that
the no-nonsense new bob was front-page news across America.
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EVERETT COLLECTION
A FILM BY Joana Hadjithomas AND Khalil Joreige
LEBANESE
R O C K E T
S O C I E T Y
THE
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Africa (MENA) Film
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Sun, 09/09 12:00 PM Cinema 5 – NBC Universal Cinema – Press & Industry
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Wed, 12/09 9:30 AM Scotiabank 5 (Scotiabank Theatre) – Press & Industry
Sat, 15/09 6:30 PM TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 – Public
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