With the festival fast approaching, Cameron Bailey, CEO, TIFF, announced the first honorees of this year’s Tribute Awards: Oscar-nominated actor Amy Adams, who will receive the TIFF Tribute Performer Award; and iconic Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter David Cronenberg, who will be recognized with the Norman Jewison Career Achievement Award. Sandra Oh, the award-winning Korean Canadian actor and producer, will serve as the inaugural Tribute Awards Honorary Chair.
The Toronto International Film Festival returns from September 5–15, 2024 and revealed six highly-anticipated titles from the Gala program, and Special Presentation program from internationally acclaimed filmmakers making their World Premieres at the 49th edition of the world’s leading public film festival.
American Fiction directed by Cord Jefferson took the TIFF 2023 People’s Choice Award at the 48th Toronto International Film Festival which concluded on Saturday with the Closing Night screening of Thom Zimny’s Sly. Starring Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction is both a wickedly smart satire about the commodification of marginalized voices and a bittersweet portrait of an artist forced to re-examine the terms of his integrity.
Prime Video debuted the official trailer for The Burial, the courtroom drama film starring Jamie Foxx as a personal injury lawyer in over his head helping funeral home owner Jeremiah Joseph O’Keefe, played by Tommy Lee Jones, sue a large funeral home company over a contractual dispute.
Neon shared the official teaser trailer for Origin, the latest film from Ava DuVernay chronicling the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson, inspired by her New York Times Best-Selling novel Caste: The Origins Of Our Discontents.
The thriller Death of a Whistleblower, the latest film from South African filmmaker Ian Gabriel known for Four Corners – South Africa’s Official Submission for 86th Oscars Best Foreign Language Film and Netflix’s family crime series Ludik, will World Premiere as an official Centerpiece selection of Toronto International Film Festival.
Academy award–winning actor, women’s rights activist, and entrepreneur Patricia Arquette will receive the TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award at the 48th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Arquette is the final honoree to be announced ahead of the 2023 TIFF Tribute Awards, taking place on Sunday, September 10 at Fairmont Royal York Hotel.
Award-winning actor Vicky Krieps will receive the TIFF Tribute Performer Award at the fifth annual Awards gala at the Toronto International Film Festival. Krieps is being recognized for her outstanding body of work and returns to the Festival this year for the World Premiere of Viggo Mortensen’s The Dead Don’t Hurt.
Ahead of the world premiere at Toronto Film Festival, Fandango debuted the first look official trailer for Walls, the directorial debut of Award-winning Italian actress Kasia Smutniak.
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay latest film Origin will have a Gala screening at Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, September 11th with DuVernay in attendance.
Chelsea McMullan’s documentary Swan Song takes us inside the National Ballet of Canada’s 2022 production of Swan Lake, choreographed for the first time by the company’s artistic director Karen Kain.
Netflix unveiled the official teaser trailer for Rustin, the biographical drama film starring Colman Domingo as gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin who helped Martin Luther King Jr. and others organize the 1963 March on Washington.