Ava DuVernay, Julie Cohen, and Betsy West are the latest filmmakers to have projects added to the Toronto International Film Festival’s 2021 edition. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cohen and West’s Julia Child documentary “Julia” and “Colin in Black & White,” the Netflix series DuVernay created with Colin Kaepernick, are set to screen.
A Sony Pictures Classics release, “Julia” will be part of the TIFF Docs section. The film explores the cultural impact of Child’s culinary career. TIFF Docs is set to open with “Attica,” Traci Curry and Stanley Nelson’s look at the largest prison uprising in U.S. history.
“Colin in Black and White,” which is based on Kaepernick’s adolescence, will make its world premiere in the Primetime section. “Sort Of,” the story of a gender fluid millennial navigating different identities, is screening in the program as well.
TIFF also announced its Dialogues schedule will include conversations with screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns (“1917”) and filmmakers Rebeca Huntt (“Beba”) and E. Chai Vasarhelyi (“Free Solo”). Nancy Utley and Steve Gilula will discuss their two decades running Searchlight Pictures during the Visionaries program, and TIFF’s Perspectives lineup will feature panels “on diversity in film criticism, narrative sovereignty for Indigenous filmmakers and ‘dismantling’ toxic film sets,” per the source.
TIFF will take place in-person and online September 8-18. The fest previously announced titles such as Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner “Titane,” Jane Campion Western “The Power of the Dog,” and Danis Goulet’s sci-fi pic “Night Raiders.”