MLK/FBI Review TIFF 2020
The Plot A documentary film exploring newly declassified US government documentation of the FBI’s relentless surveillance campaign against Martin Luther King Jr. The Good Director Sam Pollard has carefully assembled a complete visual record of the fraught and deeply adversarial relationship between Nobel Prize winning civil rights spokesman Martin Luther King Jr and J Edgar [...]
The Kid Detective Review TIFF 2020
The Plot A once celebrated and respected kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naïve young client offers him a daunting last chance at redemption by hiring him to solve her boyfriend’s brutal murder. The Good The Kid Detective has a unique and [...]
Monday Review TIFF 2020
The Plot Wildly sexual and romantic sparks fly when two Americans Chloe and Mickey meet in Greece and launch into an unlikely relationship, facing the immediate pressure of her imminently planned departure back to America. Their powerful connection instantly provokes difficult questions about whether or not it’s possible for such a spontaneous encounter to actually [...]
The Way I See It Review TIFF 2020
The Plot A documentary giving voice to former chief official White House photographer Pete Souza allowing him a platform to reflect on his lengthy career and express his views on his intimate time working in the Obama presidency and his clearly strong views on its aftermath The Good Throughout a lengthy and much lauded career [...]
Enemies Of The State Review TIFF 2020
The Plot A documentary following a seemingly ordinary American family from Indiana entangled in a bizarre web of secrets and lies after their son became a target of major U.S. government attention due to his allegedly criminal online activities, making them all in effect ‘Enemies Of the State’. The Good Enemies of The State is [...]
Mr Jones Review TIFF 2020
The Plot An aspiring young welsh journalist travels to Moscow in the hopes of uncovering the truth behind the apparent utopia of Stalin’s Soviet Union. The discoveries he makes will forever change him and the world. The Good Recent years has seen a glut of films released finally exploring history’s most infamous ‘forgotten genocide’ the [...]
Spike Lee Documentary Opens Toronto Film Festival 2020
Director Spike Lee’s new film American Utopia has opens this year’s down scaled Toronto International Film Festival 2020. The film is a record of Talking Heads front man David Byrne’s 2019 concert show and played at two open air drive-in cinemas on Thursday. Only film fans based in the city are allowed to attend physical [...]
TIFF Announces New Appointments In Key Roles
Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head, and Joana Vicente, Executive Director and Co-Head, today announced several appointments to the Senior Management team at TIFF. Diana Sanchez has been appointed to the newly created role of Senior Director, Film, effective April 15, 2019. Sanchez will oversee the programming strategy for the Toronto International Film Festival; TIFF Cinematheque; [...]
TIFF 2018 Line Up Announced
Piers Handling, CEO and Director of TIFF , and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of TIFF , today unveiled the first round of titles premiering in the Gala and Special Presentation programmes of the 43rd Toronto International Film Festival. Of the 17 Galas and 30 Special Presentations, this first announcement includes 21 World Premieres, 7 International [...]
TIFF 2018 Festival Volunteer Applications Open
Each September, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) becomes a central hub for film lovers from around the world to experience Festival Street, watch some of the year’s most anticipated films, and discover new international filmmaking voices. Organizing the 11-day Festival is no small feat, and each year the TIFF experience is made stronger and [...]