At the past two Toronto festivals, features from a new wave of Indigenous filmmakers — notably Jeff Barnaby’s “Blood Quantum,” Tracey Deer’s “Beans,” Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ “The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open” (co-directed with Kathleen Hepburn) —found acclaim and went on to connect with buyers and audiences beyond the borders of Canada.
Poised for similar traction, this year’s Toronto slate spotlights the past, present and future of Indigenous filmmaking across the festival’s public, industry and events programming. And just outside the festival frame, the Indigenous screen community is cued for non-stop action.
The Canadian government’s 2021 budget, unveiled in April, allocated $40.1 million over three years for the Indigenous Screen Office (Iso) to support screen-based content made by First Nations, Inuit and Métis creators — the largest investment in Indigenous screen sector since the launch of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (Aptn) in 1999. Founded in 2018, the Iso is...
Poised for similar traction, this year’s Toronto slate spotlights the past, present and future of Indigenous filmmaking across the festival’s public, industry and events programming. And just outside the festival frame, the Indigenous screen community is cued for non-stop action.
The Canadian government’s 2021 budget, unveiled in April, allocated $40.1 million over three years for the Indigenous Screen Office (Iso) to support screen-based content made by First Nations, Inuit and Métis creators — the largest investment in Indigenous screen sector since the launch of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (Aptn) in 1999. Founded in 2018, the Iso is...
- 9/9/2021
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
Screen among TIFF Industry Conference media partners
An industry talk with former Searchlight Pictures co-heads Nancy Utley and Steve Gilula and the first look at Ava DuVernay’s Primetime selection and Netflix series on American Football player and activist Colin Kaepernick are among latest additions to Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) programming.
The five-day TIFF Industry Conference running September 9-13 includes panel discussions presented by Screen on toxic behaviour on set and the African film business, as well as a session on Telefilm Canada’s Talent to Watch programme.
Programmers have two films to Official Selection: John Michael McDonagh’s...
An industry talk with former Searchlight Pictures co-heads Nancy Utley and Steve Gilula and the first look at Ava DuVernay’s Primetime selection and Netflix series on American Football player and activist Colin Kaepernick are among latest additions to Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) programming.
The five-day TIFF Industry Conference running September 9-13 includes panel discussions presented by Screen on toxic behaviour on set and the African film business, as well as a session on Telefilm Canada’s Talent to Watch programme.
Programmers have two films to Official Selection: John Michael McDonagh’s...
- 8/13/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Michelle Latimer’s documentary Inconvenient Indian has been withdrawn from the Sundance Film Festival after the Canadian director came under scrutiny for claiming Indigenous family roots in a Quebec Algonquin community while promoting her film ahead of its Toronto Film Festival world premiere last summer.
“After engaging with the Indigenous participants who appear onscreen, the Nfb’s Indigenous advisory group, and industry partners, the Nfb, 90th Parallel Productions and producer Jesse Wente have decided to withdraw Inconvenient Indian from active distribution,” the National Film Board of Canada said in a statement Tuesday. Canada’s public film producer said the film would ...
“After engaging with the Indigenous participants who appear onscreen, the Nfb’s Indigenous advisory group, and industry partners, the Nfb, 90th Parallel Productions and producer Jesse Wente have decided to withdraw Inconvenient Indian from active distribution,” the National Film Board of Canada said in a statement Tuesday. Canada’s public film producer said the film would ...
- 12/22/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Michelle Latimer’s documentary Inconvenient Indian has been withdrawn from the Sundance Film Festival after the Canadian director came under scrutiny for claiming Indigenous family roots in a Quebec Algonquin community while promoting her film ahead of its Toronto Film Festival world premiere last summer.
“After engaging with the Indigenous participants who appear onscreen, the Nfb’s Indigenous advisory group, and industry partners, the Nfb, 90th Parallel Productions and producer Jesse Wente have decided to withdraw Inconvenient Indian from active distribution,” the National Film Board of Canada said in a statement Tuesday. Canada’s public film producer said the film would ...
“After engaging with the Indigenous participants who appear onscreen, the Nfb’s Indigenous advisory group, and industry partners, the Nfb, 90th Parallel Productions and producer Jesse Wente have decided to withdraw Inconvenient Indian from active distribution,” the National Film Board of Canada said in a statement Tuesday. Canada’s public film producer said the film would ...
- 12/22/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A few weeks before TIFF 2020, actor-turned-helmer Michelle Latimer is missing the cooler climes of Thunder Bay, on Lake Superior, where she grew up.
But the hottest ticket in Toronto can’t skip town before her rare premiere double-header.
In 2008, Latimer, who is of Algonquin, Metis and French heritage, left a busy acting career and has (mostly) worked behind the camera directing docs and series, notably, Viceland’s eight-parter “Rise,” about Indigenous-led resistance movements, which included an extended episode about the Standing Rock occupation protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. In January 2020, Latimer was the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Sundance Institute Screenwriting Labs. She’s currently developing a dramatic feature based on the true story of Canada’s only female dangerous offender, in collaboration with Sienna Films.
This week, Latimer is one of a handful of directors attending their physically distanced in-cinema premieres. Hers include feature doc “Inconvenient Indian” (National Film Board...
But the hottest ticket in Toronto can’t skip town before her rare premiere double-header.
In 2008, Latimer, who is of Algonquin, Metis and French heritage, left a busy acting career and has (mostly) worked behind the camera directing docs and series, notably, Viceland’s eight-parter “Rise,” about Indigenous-led resistance movements, which included an extended episode about the Standing Rock occupation protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. In January 2020, Latimer was the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Sundance Institute Screenwriting Labs. She’s currently developing a dramatic feature based on the true story of Canada’s only female dangerous offender, in collaboration with Sienna Films.
This week, Latimer is one of a handful of directors attending their physically distanced in-cinema premieres. Hers include feature doc “Inconvenient Indian” (National Film Board...
- 9/11/2020
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
In the summer of 1990, filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin worked as a combat journalist on the Kanehsatake reserve, where the proposed construction of a golf course on disputed land—a Mohawk ancestral burial ground—culminated in a 78-day armed standoff known as the Oka Crisis, or Mohawk Resistance, wherein Mohawk protestors resisted the encroaching forces of the Canadian army and Quebec's local police. Present for the entirety of the event, Obomsawin states that she did not want to leave, despite the concerns of the National Film Board of Canada, "because I was going to tell the story 'til the end." The footage—including some smuggled tapes—gave way to her masterpiece, the 1993 documentary Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, which is available for free on the Nfb website, along with a large majority of her expansive filmography. (Marc Glassman of Pov Magazine notes that "much of the most meaningful footage is in Kanehsatake while...
- 11/15/2019
- MUBI
Indigenous Filmmaker Fellowship, a four-day creative and business immersion program focused on strengthening and advancing scripted projects takes place in conjunction with the Whistler Film Festival + Content Summit from November 28 to December 2.
Offering a curated itinerary that includes a focus on creative, marketing and distribution as well as scheduled market meetings with attending industry and advisors, the 18th annual Whistler Film Festival (Wff) has confirmed the seven finalists and faculty.
“Wff’s Indigenous Filmmaker Fellowship is recognized by the industry for the strong support it offers to Indigenous storytellers. This year we are excited to include a feature length project alongside six short form projects,” said Julie Di Cresce, Wff’s Director of Industry Programming. “It gives us a great sense of pride to witness fellows excel and advance their projects through mentorship and relationships built during their time at the Whistler Film Festival.”
Formerly known as the Aboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship,...
Offering a curated itinerary that includes a focus on creative, marketing and distribution as well as scheduled market meetings with attending industry and advisors, the 18th annual Whistler Film Festival (Wff) has confirmed the seven finalists and faculty.
“Wff’s Indigenous Filmmaker Fellowship is recognized by the industry for the strong support it offers to Indigenous storytellers. This year we are excited to include a feature length project alongside six short form projects,” said Julie Di Cresce, Wff’s Director of Industry Programming. “It gives us a great sense of pride to witness fellows excel and advance their projects through mentorship and relationships built during their time at the Whistler Film Festival.”
Formerly known as the Aboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship,...
- 11/20/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
At this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the annual event will pay tribute to its home country with a number of options that span the past, present, and future of Canadian creativity. Per usual, the fest has unveiled a slew of titles that will make up its Canadian feature slate — 26 in all — with an eye towards advancing not only established Canadian filmmakers, but rising stars as well.
This year’s Canadian lineup boasts one of the highest numbers of feature directorial debuts ever, as well as one of the highest numbers of films from Western Canada in recent years. Over 30% of the titles have a first-time feature director, while seven out of nine are Tiff alumni.
Read More:tiff’s Platform Selection: How the Festival’s Buzziest Slate is Pivoting After Launching ‘Moonlight’
“It is exciting to see a new wave of Canadian first-time feature directors play with genres and take risks,...
This year’s Canadian lineup boasts one of the highest numbers of feature directorial debuts ever, as well as one of the highest numbers of films from Western Canada in recent years. Over 30% of the titles have a first-time feature director, while seven out of nine are Tiff alumni.
Read More:tiff’s Platform Selection: How the Festival’s Buzziest Slate is Pivoting After Launching ‘Moonlight’
“It is exciting to see a new wave of Canadian first-time feature directors play with genres and take risks,...
- 8/9/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Read More: The 2015 Indiewire Tiff Bible: All the Reviews, Interviews and News Posted During The Festival Engaging with the history of cinema is one of the most important roles a film festival can play. Each year, amidst the red carpet frenzy and obsession over world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Tiff Cinematheque presents an invaluable program of films across all eras and nations of cinema. This year the selection was undertaken by a programming committee consisting of Brad Deane, James Quandt, and Jesse Wente. Deane, the Senior Manager of Film Programmes at the Tiff Cinematheque year-round, insisted that these films needed to screen alongside the dozens of contemporary works showing in the very same building of the Tiff Bell Lightbox. "It's impossible to understand the present without knowledge of our past," said Deane. "I believe that any festival showing contemporary films is obliged to show classics because cinema is a continuum.
- 9/21/2015
- by Adam Cook
- Indiewire
The Toronto International Film Festival is in its 40th year, and the Tiff CEO and Artistic Director this morning announced the programmers for 2015’s festival.
Tiff runs from September 10 to September 20. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for a reveal of the full film lineups. Read the press-release for this year’s festival programmers below:
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40th Toronto International Film Festival Announces Its Programmers
Toronto — Piers Handling, Director and CEO of Tiff, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, reveal the team of 22 programmers who will make the selections for the 40th Toronto International Film Festival®, which runs Thursday, September 10 through Sunday, September 20, 2015.
Piers Handling
Europe, City to City: London, Special Presentations, Gala Presentations
Handling is the Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tiff. He has held this position since 1994, and is responsible for leading both the operational and artistic growth of the organization. Under Handling’s direction,...
Tiff runs from September 10 to September 20. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for a reveal of the full film lineups. Read the press-release for this year’s festival programmers below:
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40th Toronto International Film Festival Announces Its Programmers
Toronto — Piers Handling, Director and CEO of Tiff, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, reveal the team of 22 programmers who will make the selections for the 40th Toronto International Film Festival®, which runs Thursday, September 10 through Sunday, September 20, 2015.
Piers Handling
Europe, City to City: London, Special Presentations, Gala Presentations
Handling is the Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tiff. He has held this position since 1994, and is responsible for leading both the operational and artistic growth of the organization. Under Handling’s direction,...
- 5/11/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Film Circuit™, Tiff’s national film outreach program, revealed that audiences across the country awarded Don McKellar’sThe Grand Seduction and Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox as winners of the 11th annual Film Circuit People’s Choice Awards. The Grand Seduction was named Best Canadian Film and The Lunchbox was selected as the Best International Film.
Film Circuit operates through domestic grassroots networks and strong community partnerships, bringing Canadian and international independent films and artists to communities across Canada. From Prince Rupert to Charlottetown, Film Circuit has 174 groups in 155 locations. 2014 saw record attendance, with 342,091 people attending 2,116 screenings.
“Now in its 20th year, Film Circuit continues to grow and establish new groups across the country,” said Jesse Wente, Director of Film Programmes, Tiff. “Along with that growth, films are working Film Circuit into their release plans as a way to reach new and engaged audiences.”
In 2014, guests travelled to communities across...
Film Circuit operates through domestic grassroots networks and strong community partnerships, bringing Canadian and international independent films and artists to communities across Canada. From Prince Rupert to Charlottetown, Film Circuit has 174 groups in 155 locations. 2014 saw record attendance, with 342,091 people attending 2,116 screenings.
“Now in its 20th year, Film Circuit continues to grow and establish new groups across the country,” said Jesse Wente, Director of Film Programmes, Tiff. “Along with that growth, films are working Film Circuit into their release plans as a way to reach new and engaged audiences.”
In 2014, guests travelled to communities across...
- 4/22/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Stanley Kubrick, the popular exhibition that celebrates the creative process of one of cinema's most enigmatic and essential artists, makes its Canadian premiere at Tiff Bell Lightbox from October 31, 2014 -- January 25, 2015.
Re-designed for Toronto audiences (and featuring an exclusive 15-minute collection of Kubrick clips, curated by Tiff Director of Programmes Jesse Wente), it draws on extensive archives from Kubrick's home and workplace and features rare photographs and letters, original props and costumes, screenplays, production materials, and cameras from his almost 50-year career. Stanley Kubrick is Tiff's largest exhibition to date, with almost 1,000 artifacts.
Jan Harlan, Kubrick's long-time producer and brother-in-law, and Christiane Kubrick, Kubrick's widow after 47 years of marriage, were on-hand to kick off the exhibition.
Highlights include the 'Starchild' from "2001: A Space Odyssey," the dresses of the ghostly sisters from "The Shining," the 'Born to Kill' helmet of Private Joker from "Full Metal Jacket," the authentic...
Re-designed for Toronto audiences (and featuring an exclusive 15-minute collection of Kubrick clips, curated by Tiff Director of Programmes Jesse Wente), it draws on extensive archives from Kubrick's home and workplace and features rare photographs and letters, original props and costumes, screenplays, production materials, and cameras from his almost 50-year career. Stanley Kubrick is Tiff's largest exhibition to date, with almost 1,000 artifacts.
Jan Harlan, Kubrick's long-time producer and brother-in-law, and Christiane Kubrick, Kubrick's widow after 47 years of marriage, were on-hand to kick off the exhibition.
Highlights include the 'Starchild' from "2001: A Space Odyssey," the dresses of the ghostly sisters from "The Shining," the 'Born to Kill' helmet of Private Joker from "Full Metal Jacket," the authentic...
- 10/30/2014
- by Chris Jancelewicz
- Moviefone
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