Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival ( TIFF) is has organized a ten day film festival without competition, held since 1976 in Toronto, Canada. It is the beginning / middle of September annually organizes and follows immediately after the International Film Festival of Venice. Seat and venue is the Festival Tower, a new building in Adelaide Street West 299, which is also known under the name Bell Lightbox.
As the organizer, the TIFF Group occurs in addition to the flow of international film festivals will pass more activities in the film industry in Canada. Since 1984 there is a separate program track for Canadian films, which was divided in 2004 in Canada First! with Canadian Erstfilmen feature-length and Short Cuts Canada with Canadian short films.
The Toronto International Film Festival is next to the World Film Festival in Montreal and the AFI Fest in Los Angeles the only film festival in North America, which is accredited by the international film producers association FIAPF.
History
The opening of the film festival in Toronto was in 1976 under the official name "The Festival of Festivals " instead. At the first event in which the world's most successful films were shown in Toronto, saw 35,000 cinephiles 127 films from 30 countries. In 1995, the event in Toronto International Film Festival ( tiff. ) has been renamed. In the following years, the Film Festival has developed into an event, in the films, directors ( including, for example, Paul Haggis, Michael Moore, David Cronenberg, Don McKellar, James Cameron ), scriptwriters and actors came to great prominence. 2001, the program was launched Canada's Top Ten. 2003 started planning for a new building for the event building. In 2005, the festival celebrated its 30th anniversary. From 2007 to 2010, named as " Lightbox " new building was built.
Due to the steadily growing popularity of this event, the number of films presented rose in 2009 to 336 from 64 countries. Its audience continued to rise to 500,000.
2012, the 37th edition of the festival from 6 to September 16, 2012 took place. The 38th TIFF ran from 5 to 15 September 2013.
Reports
TIFF is in addition to the International Film Festival in Cannes a significant event for the national and international film industry. The event is regarded both as an important media event in which annual meeting in September, television stars, producers and media journalists from around the world, as well as a career springboard for future Oscar contender. Print media such as the LA Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, New York Times, Toronto Star, Times of India, The Globe & Mail and the Toronto Sun daily information on current events. In shows such as Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight (ET ), Red Carpet Diary, eTalk, Entertainment Tonight Canada, Reuters, The Canadian Press, and UPI report Canapress U.S., Canadian and international television channels live from the festival. Other media also reported from the festival are the daily section of Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Screen International.
Audience Award
Since the Toronto Film Festival in contrast to other festivals such as Berlin, Cannes and Venice no official competition jury has, is the most important prize of the People's Choice Award, which is awarded by the festival goers to the best feature film and documentary. In addition, various film critic associations assigned separately Awards during the festival.
The winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at a glance:
¹ = film productions, later won the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year ² = film productions, later won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year