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...


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),
      
  • the largest cinema, with a capacity of 550, 'will definitely be used'
• 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
  – as 35mm presentations, inside Lightbox, during the festival; tickets will be available "first come first served... we'll be announcing the program, and once you know the films that you want to see... get there early"
  
• 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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