Piers Handling
Piers Handling
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I think we have seen fewer international films that have dealt with explicit sexuality. It seems that the rest of the world has moved on from that, but maybe it's just a temporary aberration this year.
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Increasingly a lot of key films are coming to film festivals. You'll notice even Hollywood is beginning to take some of its riskier, more dangerous, darker material.
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Increasingly a lot of key films are coming to film festivals, ... You'll notice even Hollywood is beginning to take some of its riskier, more dangerous, darker material.
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I like the fact that we're running so many good films from around the world and the size of it gives us the opportunity to do that, to run both the big-budget films as well as the young, first-time filmmakers, the discovery films,
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To allow Canadian filmmakers to stand shoulder to shoulder with their international counterparts.
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Business was brisk for a large number of titles, with distribution deals worldwide coming from most of our world premiere participants.
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Obviously, ... politically in the United States there has been such a drift to the right that hasn't happened up here, as Canada has become much more tolerant and open.
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We didn't steer away from the Karla thing this year. We've seen the film. It was just that we decided, for artistic reasons, that we didn't want to screen it.
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We didn't steer away from the Karla thing this year,
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It's just a more uncertain world out there, ... There is more of a possibility of losing something, a loved one or a child. Maybe too there's an increasing sense of powerlessness, that we don't have as much control over the world as we used to five or 10 years ago.
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American Beauty' really reinforced in Hollywood's eyes the idea that Toronto could actually break a film that was very important. They came here and gathered acclaim and critical support that lasted through the Oscars. Subsequent to that, virtually every year, we've had a significant number of films here that later came out with nominations and Oscars.
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I know for certain world premieres, we're getting many press and buyers into the first public screening,
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I hope 30 years later that we have kept the spirit of the founders, kept to the tone of what they set out to accomplish.
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in every group of films from every continent.