2023-09-09 08:47:00
Toronto Canada. – The Toronto Film Festival, the largest in North America, opened Thursday night with “How Do You Live?” (in English “The Boy and the Heron” and in its original title “Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka”) by the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki and although the red carpets with large stars Hollywood attracts, according to the organizers, the audience does not change and the films, which are voted by the audience, did not suffer any modification.
Cameron Bailey, executive director of the Toronto International Film Festival, explained that “you have to respond to what the year gives you”, remembering that the previous years saw Covid and despite this, the TIFF He didn’t stop, he just adapted.
“That’s the nature of putting on a festival,” Bailey says. “You have to respond to what the year gives you. We have good experience from the last few years in terms of managing how the COVID pandemic affected us. And we implemented some of those same measures when the news regarding the actors’ strike emerged.”
Some artists will attend the 48th annual edition of the TIFF. The documentaries and their themes will still be there. The independent productions They have the possibility of reaching provisional agreements with the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) currently on strike.
In Toronto, Bailey acknowledges that the absence of actors has a cascading effect on other parts of the festival: the amount of media traveling, the number of industry members on hand, and the press conferences at hotels throughout downtown Toronto. . But, she points out, the movies are still the same.
“What we found was that in terms of programming and our audience’s interest in seeing the movies, there was very little change,” Bailey says. “We are on track to match or even improve last year’s viewing figures.”
But less star power inevitably means less hype. And Toronto is arguably the biggest movie rumor mill. Because, unlike Cannes or Venice, the public of the TIFF It is full of movie buffs and not just people from the industry.
Between the stars what are expected in TIFF They include Sean Penn, Dakota Johnson, Jessica Chastain, Willem Dafoe, Nicolas Cage and Finn Wolfhard, all of whom arrive with projects with provisional agreements.
The festival has also programmed numerous films directed by actors, including “The Dead Don’t Hurt” by Viggo Mortensen, “North Star” by Kristin Scott Thomas, “Knox Goes Away” by Michael Keaton, “Wildcat” by Ethan Hawke and “Woman of the Hour” by Anna Kendrick.
Toronto programmers have also gravitated toward music. The documentaries “Lil Nas Stop Making Sense”.
With scenarios mostly devoid of starsmore attention may be paid to young filmmakers breaking through.
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