Toronto International Film Festival

News from the Toronto International Film Festival

• Polish composer feted at Toronto festival CBC - Tue Jan 26, 4:48 PM

  A new music festival focusing on works by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki will feature the North American premiere of Kaddish, a work he composed about the Lodz Ghetto.

• Canadian horror spices up Sundance CBC - Mon Jan 25, 1:03 PM

  Actress Sarah Polley returns to the horror genre with Splice, a feature directed by Canada's Vincenzo Natali that opened at the Sundance Film Festival on the weekend.

• Mozart brightens Toronto symphony's winter season CBC - Wed Jan 13, 3:55 PM

  The Mozart Festival started six years ago at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra has become a bright spot of its season, filling seats and becoming one of the TSO's most popular programs.

• Doc filmmaker Baichwal among Sundance jurors CBC - Mon Jan 11, 12:49 PM

  Documentary filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Morgan Spurlock, author Russell Banks and ubiquitous indie film actress Parker Posey will be among the jurors at this month's Sundance Film Festival, organizers announced on Monday.

• Cameron, Reitman to vie for film-directing honour CBC - Thu Jan 7, 2:47 PM

  Canadian-born directors James Cameron and Jason Reitman are among the five filmmakers nominated on Thursday for the Directors Guild of America's annual awards gala.

• Toronto fringe filmmaker Hoolboom wins award CBC - Wed Dec 16, 12:54 PM

  Toronto videographer and filmmaker Mike Hoolboom has won the $10,000 Bell Award in Video Art, the Canada Council for the Arts announced Wednesday.

• Toronto critics pick Hunger, Inglourious Basterds as top films CBC - Wed Dec 16, 12:17 AM

  The Toronto Film Critics Association has selected its top movies for 2009, with the best picture category resulting in a tie between the Irish drama Hunger and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

• David Pecaut, co-founder of Toronto's Luminato arts festival, dies at 54 The Canadian Press - Mon Dec 14, 1:52 PM

  TORONTO - David Pecaut, who co-founded Toronto's Luminato arts festival, has died at the age of 54.

• Stratford festival teams up with Mirvish to bring 'A Funny Thing Happened ... ' to Toronto The Canadian Press - Mon Dec 14, 12:14 PM

  STRATFORD, Ont. - The Stratford Shakespeare Festival has partnered with Mirvish Productions to bring one of its shows to Toronto.

• Toronto to host major Indian Academy Awards festival in June 2011 The Canadian Press - Wed Dec 9, 11:32 AM

  TORONTO - Toronto's selection as the host of the 2011 International Indian Film Academy Awards is a real "coup" for Ontario and comes because of the reputation of the city's annual international film festival, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Wednesday.