Notes from yesterday's press conference
Besides the announcement of Galas and Special Presentations yesterday, the festival's directors mentioned some other points of interest...
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Piers Handling, Director and CEO:
Cameron Bailey, Co-Director:
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Piers Handling, Director and CEO:
- three cinemas in the new Lightbox center will be in use 'for sure' during the festival:
- two cinemas will host art installations
- 8½ Screens (Atom Egoyan)
- E-100 (James Andean & François Xavier Saint-Pierre),
- 8½ Screens (Atom Egoyan)
- the largest cinema, with a capacity of 550, 'will definitely be used'
- two cinemas will host art installations
- free repeat screening of the audience award-winning film Sunday, Sept. 19th
- The Essential 100 exhibition opens Sunday, Sept.12 and will continue until the end of 2010
- the Tim Burton showcase will run from 'late' Nov [18th] to April
Cameron Bailey, Co-Director:
- the one day extension of the film festival will host repeat screenings; it is expected to be a permanent addition
- a new TIFF for Free program, featuring films from the festival's past – for example,
- 1983 The Big Chill, Lawrence Kasdan
- 1989 Roadkill, Bruce McDonald
- 2004 Crash, Paul Haggis
- 2005 Water, Deepa Mehta
- no free Yonge-Dundas screenings — "because this is the year we open our building, we've decided to focus our free programming in TIFF Bell Lightbox"
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