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THE ARCHIVISTS-short film by Igor Drljaca. TIFF World Premiere-Short-Cuts, Program 3

TIFF World Premiere (Midnight Madness): VIOLATION written, produced, & directed by Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli

FIRECRACKER DEPARTMENT presents the inaugural BLAZE Award to JANN ARDEN at first TIFF Party

Blue Ice Docs and THE NFB present, THIS IS NOT A MOVIE, a film by Yung Chang - TIFF WORLD PREMIERE

Carousel Pictures presents LIFE SUPPORT, a film by Renuka Jeyapalan - TIFF WORLD PREMIERE – Short Cuts Program

Independent Film Company presents The Sea A film by Stephen Brown North American Premiere | TIFF | Sept. 7 | 5:00PM | TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Cast Ciarán Hinds  Sinéad Cusack Ruth Bradley Charlotte Rampling Karl Johnson Directed by Stephen Brown Adapted for the screen from his award-winning novel by author John Banville Produced by Luc Roeg, Michael Robinson and David Collins   The Sea is an adaptation of a novel by John Banville that won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. The book has achieved universal acclaim for its compelling and deft treatment of the grand themes of love,

When Jews Were Funny A film by Alan Zweig   World Premiere | Toronto International Film Festival 2013     (Toronto – August 7, 2013) When Jews Were Funny is director Alan Zweig’s personal exploration into the roots and manifestations of his Jewish identity, particularly the question of how this Jewishness has persisted though he’s done nothing to maintain it. And it’s a World Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.   He begins his exploration by trying to answer a question that’s intrigued him since childhood.  Why were all the comedians he watched on TV in the fifties and sixties

Sometimes broadcasting is a contact sport   Knost Films Inc presents The Dick Knost Show A film by Bruce Sweeney   World Premiere | Toronto International Film Festival 2013   #DickKnostShow @DickKnostShow www.TheDickKnostShow.com   (Toronto – August 7,2013) The latest feature from multi-award-winning Canadian filmmaker Bruce Sweeney, The Dick Knost Show is a character-based satire on sports-talk culture, and a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2013.   Written and directed by Sweeney, The Dick Knost Show is the story of Dick Knost (Tom Scholte), a prickly, acerbic and chronically impulsive star sports-talk host. After dismissing the danger

BIFF INTRODUCES THE FIRST-EVER FESTIVAL BETWEEN CANADIAN, MEXICAN AND AMERICAN FILM INDUSTRIES; AND UNVEILS SOME OF THE CANADIAN FILMS IN COMPETITION http://bajafilmfest.com.mx/ Come November, a feisty resort-based upstart, the Los Cabos-based Baja International Film Festival (BIFF)  - a new paradise for cinema - will be doing the full-NAFTA – putting Mexican, American and Canadian films in equal competition for the first time. BIFF made a number of announcements during a reception at the Toronto International Film Festival, revealing their opening night film: FOOSBALL (Mete Gol) by Academy Award winner Juan José Campanella. Following that, two of the Canadian films in