
Report From Toronto
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‘The Way I See It’ Director Dawn Porter Says Documentary Is a Non-Subtle Critique of Donald Trump (Video)
By Beatrice Verhoeven | October 2, 2020 @ 2:19 PMTIFF 2020: The film highlights former White House photographer Pete Souza’s work and the visible contrast between the Trump and Obama administrations
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‘Wolfwalkers’ Directors Say Medieval Irish Folklore Highlights Same Fear and Division Prevalent Today (Video)
By Brian Welk | October 1, 2020 @ 3:42 PMTIFF 2020: Animated feature from ”The Secret of Kells“ team finds parallels from modern day to 17th Century
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Why ‘A Suitable Boy’ Director Mira Nair Needed to Be the One to Adapt Novel: ‘It Is Us Who Need to Tell This Story’ (Video)
By Trey Williams | October 1, 2020 @ 3:27 PMTIFF 2020: ”Because it’s so much a portrait of our country and our culture and our people that it is us who need to tell this story“
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Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw on Discovering the Secret Culture of ‘The Truffle Hunters’ (Video)
By Beatrice Verhoeven | October 1, 2020 @ 11:58 AMTIFF 2020: ”Nobody really knew who these truffle hunters were,“ Dweck tells TheWrap
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How ‘Wildfire’ Director and Star Coped With Loss of Co-Star Nika McGuigan (Video)
By Brian Welk | October 1, 2020 @ 11:03 AMTIFF 2020: ”She’s such a fierce talent, you don’t think a light as big as that can be extinguished so quickly,“ director Cathy Brady says of actress who died last year
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What Vanessa Kirby Told Ellen Burstyn Just Before Her ‘Pieces of a Woman’ Monologue (Video)
By Brian Welk | September 29, 2020 @ 2:13 PMTIFF 2020: ”I kept on going. I don’t know what I said,“ Burstyn says of the scene
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Rosamund Pike, Eiza Gonzalez Thriller ‘I Care A Lot’ Acquired by Netflix
By Beatrice Verhoeven | September 25, 2020 @ 11:44 AMTIFF 2020: This is the streamer’s fourth acquisition from the festival
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How a Small Film Slate at Toronto Film Festival Translated Into Big Sales
By Brian Welk | September 24, 2020 @ 6:00 AM”People are buying with the notion that things will get back to some level of normalcy and some level of physical engagement again,“ IFC Films’ Arianna Bocco says
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How ‘Beans’ Director Turned Mohawks’ Darkest Hour Into a Coming-of-Age Film (Video)
By Jeremy Fuster | September 21, 2020 @ 3:13 PMTIFF 2020: Based on Tracey Deer’s personal experience, ”Beans“ tells the story of a 12-year-old Mohawk girl facing racism in Quebec
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How Ben Sharrock’s Study Abroad in Syria Inspired Refugee Film ‘Limbo’ (Video)
By Beatrice Verhoeven | September 21, 2020 @ 1:06 PMTIFF 2020: ”It’s something that goes back quite a long way,“ filmmaker tells TheWrap
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‘Nomadland’ Wins Audience Award at Toronto Film Festival
By Steve Pond | September 20, 2020 @ 10:01 AMNine of the last 10 TIFF audience winners have gone on to receive Oscar nominations for Best Picture, and three have won
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Mark Wahlberg Drama ‘Good Joe Bell’ Acquired by Solstice Studios in $20 Million Deal
By Brian Welk | September 19, 2020 @ 3:47 PMLGBTQ family drama that premiered at TIFF also stars Reid Miller, Connie Britton and Gary Sinise
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‘The Water Man’ Film Review: David Oyelowo’s Directorial Debut Takes Kids on a Rousing Adventure
By Alonso Duralde | September 19, 2020 @ 1:00 PMTIFF 2020: Humor and pathos, thrills and characterization combine fluidly in the ”Selma“ star’s first go behind the camera
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Chloe Grace Moretz’s ‘Shadow in the Cloud’ Acquired by Vertical Entertainment, Redbox
By Beatrice Verhoeven | September 17, 2020 @ 4:37 PMTIFF 2020: WW2 action thriller is directed by Roseanne Liang
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How a COVID-Era Toronto Film Festival Found a New Purpose – as a Platform for Unheard Voices
By Steve Pond | September 17, 2020 @ 6:00 AMThis year’s TIFF wasn’t dominated by awards contenders, but its heart was in smaller films from underrepresented voices who deserve to be heard