#Toronto Film Festival

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TIFF Women Directors and Producers: Meet Sabine Emiliani and Stephanie Levy

Sabine Emiliani’s documentary editing has garnered accolades from Sundance to Cannes to the Academy Awards. Ms. Emiliani’s 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, March of the Penguins...

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TIFF Women Directors: Meet Lisa Langseth

Lisa Langseth was born in Stockholm, Sweden and studied at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is a playwright and director of theatre. Her film directing credits include the short...

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TIFF Women Directors: Meet Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland was born in Warsaw, Poland. Her first feature film, Provincial Actors (79), won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes. Her last film, In Darkness, was nominated for an Academy Award for...

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Women and Hollywood Events in Toronto 2013

I’m heading up to the Toronto Film Festival for the third time and again the anxiety of creating a decent schedule has set in.  We will have a new feature on the site this year –...

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Interview with Golshifteh Farahani – Star of The Patience Stone

This is from Toronto Film Festival in 2012 The Patience Stone was the movie in Toronto that two separate women told me I needed to see. And boy was it worth it. It is basically a monologue...

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Toronto 2013 Adds Films to Galas, Special Presentations and World Cinema

This year’s Toronto Film Festival has added more films to their Gala, Special Presentation and World Cinema programs. There are now 19 Galas with only one woman directed film out of that. The...

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Trailer Watch: Enough Said – Directed by Nicole Holofcener

Nicole Holofcener’s latest Enough Said will premiere at this year’s Toronto Film Festival before hitting theaters. Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Eva, a divorced, single parent and...

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TIFF Trailer Watch: Gloria

Celebrating its North American Premiere at the Toronto Film Festival is Gloria starring Paulina Garcia.  Garcia plays Gloria, a middle-aged divorcee, who is trying to embrace her single status...

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TIFF Announces Documentary Line Up

Last week, the 2013 Toronto Film Festival began announcing its line up. However that came with dismaying news for female directors–out of the 16 galas not one was directed by a woman. And of...

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TIFF Trailer Watch: Mary, Queen of Scots

Screening at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival is Mary, Queen of Scots about the tragic monarch who lost her head. French actress Camille Rutherford plays the young queen in the...

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Women Centric Films in Toronto International Film Festival 2013 Gala & Special Presentation Line Up

After taking a look at the women directed films in the galas and special presentations, we also wanted to take a look at the women centric films that will be receiving lots of attention in...

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Toronto International Film Festival Announces Galas and Special Presentations for 2013

This morning the folks at the Toronto Film Festival rolled out the beginning of the line-up — the galas and the special presentations.  These are the film where we see the biggest...

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TIFF Rerun: Interview with Margarethe von Trotta and Barbara Sukowa – Director and Star of Hannah Arendt

Originally published on October 29. Hannah Arendt opens in New York today and in Los Angeles on June 7th. Last, but not the bit least is a conversation with master director Margarethe von Trotta...

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TIFF Rerun: Interview with Susanne Bier – Director of Love Is All You Need

Originally published on September 19. Love Is All You Need opens in limited release on Friday. At the Toronto Film Festival you see a lot of heavy movies really early in the morning.  Love is...

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Trailer Watch: Love Is All You Need – Directed by Susanne Bier

We saw Susanne Biers' follow-up film to her Academy Award winning In a Better World at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival where we interviewed the director.  Here is a new trailer.  As of...

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