Noah Cowan
Noah Cowan
Noah Cowan is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society. Since March 2014, he has overseen the Film Society’s programs in exhibition, education and filmmaker services. Before joining the Film Society, Cowan was the Artistic Director of TIFF Bell Lightbox...
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People who have viewed the film -- and that includes several Toronto journalists and our curators -- indicate that it certainly does not allow room to sympathize with the actions of the convicted criminals portrayed in the documentary and shows them to be morally bankrupt.
Of these features, 109 are world premieres -- the most ever,
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U.S. cinema has a long way to go. Hollywood is not the most welcoming place for female directors. Women have made leaps and bounds over the last 10 years in filling studio executive jobs, but still, behind the camera, it's very driven by guilds that aren't as welcoming to women as they might be.
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We are truly overwhelmed this year by the number of films choosing Toronto for their world premieres. Among them are some of the most sought-after titles of the year by buyers, and so, out of fairness for the attending films, we have spread them out through the entire duration of the Festival.
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Today's survey results confirm Toronto's status as a top-tier festival for international business and deal-making, ... International buyers clearly recognize Toronto as one of the world's premiere festivals to discover and buy the best cinema from across the globe.
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We were thrilled to host so many wonderful films from around the world,
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We perceive Toronto as the festival that has the widest brim. We try to fit as much under this umbrella as we can.
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We wouldn't be showing the Hollywood films we do unless we felt it was going to benefit all the films that are playing,
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It takes artists awhile both to digest current events and get films made. This lag of four years makes sense, if one was going to predict accurately when we would start seeing these kinds of films.
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The primary reason why producers and directors and filmmakers love Toronto is the audiences here, ... They've been incredibly supportive over the years of emerging filmmakers and it's amazing how directors remember.
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We didn't anticipate that there would be major studio-like deals happening, ... When you are dealing with that, suddenly everybody gets a little nervous. When the big boys start to play, everyone else has to kind of fall back a little bit.
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There's a lot of jostling and work that goes on here. If you're not in Toronto you should have a pretty good reason.
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They are recruiting tools. We use them to attract, siren-like, the people of Toronto to experience the film festival, to experience what we perceive as satisfying work and hopefully then to experiment with more challenging films.
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Once we saw Norm and Zach's film, we knew that one of the most important films from and about Canada had crossed our paths. Although we still have significant work to see from major Canadian directors, the unique storytelling and aesthetics of this film as our Opening Night speaks both to our core charitable mission of fostering motion picture culture and to showcase the diversity of global filmmaking worldwide.