As the Venice International Film Festival is winding down, the Toronto International Film festival kicks off Sept. 10 and continues through Sept. 19 in a Covid-19 hybrid version with physical screenings and drive-in, digital screenings and virtual red carpets. Whereas Venice is the oldest film festival having begun in 1932, Toronto is relatively new. In fact, it wasn’t even called the Toronto International Film Festival until 1994.
The festival was the brainchild of founders Bill Marshall, Dusty Cohl and Henk Van Der Kolk who launched the inaugural Festival of Festivals in 1976. The mandate was to feature the best pics from other film festivals and to attract major Hollywood productions by being one of the most hospitable movie celebrations.
The first edition of the festival didn’t set the world on fire. Guests Jack Nicholson and Julie Christie never made it. The festival had hoped to open with Hal Ashby’s biopic on Woody Guthrie,...
The festival was the brainchild of founders Bill Marshall, Dusty Cohl and Henk Van Der Kolk who launched the inaugural Festival of Festivals in 1976. The mandate was to feature the best pics from other film festivals and to attract major Hollywood productions by being one of the most hospitable movie celebrations.
The first edition of the festival didn’t set the world on fire. Guests Jack Nicholson and Julie Christie never made it. The festival had hoped to open with Hal Ashby’s biopic on Woody Guthrie,...
- 9/10/2020
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Festival veteran steps aside as Cameron Bailey, Joane Vicente prepare to take the reins.
After 36 years of service to the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), director and CEO Piers Handling bid farewell at Sunday’s awards ceremony and drew a standing ovation from filmmakers and festival staff.
“Ladies and gentlemen we have arrived at the end of another phenomenal festival and I could not be more proud of everything that we have achieved together over the past 36 years,” said Handling in typically understated manner as he presided over the ceremony with artistic director Cameron Bailey.
The Tiff veteran, who joined...
After 36 years of service to the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), director and CEO Piers Handling bid farewell at Sunday’s awards ceremony and drew a standing ovation from filmmakers and festival staff.
“Ladies and gentlemen we have arrived at the end of another phenomenal festival and I could not be more proud of everything that we have achieved together over the past 36 years,” said Handling in typically understated manner as he presided over the ceremony with artistic director Cameron Bailey.
The Tiff veteran, who joined...
- 9/16/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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