Toronto Film Festival in motion.
September 6th 2008 12:37
In a release from Screen Australia, Tait Brady Executive Director Marketing Support and Promotions of the newly formed agency Screen Australia was quick to touch upon the fact that all six films had received financing from either Screen Oz or its predecessors the FFC and AFC. Following up on the success of many of these films during the domestic film festival season in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, the films will screen across four different categories which include the Not Quite Hollywood in the midnight madness section and Matthew Newton’s directorial debut feature Three Blind Mice’ screening in the discovery section of the festival. Others include Real to Reel and Special Presentations sections.
“TIFF offers the best launching pad into the North American market and traditionally has a strong Australian line-up,” said Tait Brady, Executive Director Marketing Support and Promotions of the newly formed agency Screen Australia. ”This year is no exception. The selection reflects the tremendous diversity of current Australian production, including an animated feature, an edgy genre film and an entertaining doco about a forgotten chapter of Australian film history.”
Special Presentations: Disgrace (d: Steve Jacobs), starring John Malkovich as a professor whose life implodes after he has an affair with one of his students, will have its world premiere. This highly anticipated film is based on the novel Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee, which won the Booker Prize in 1999.
Midnight Madness: Not Quite Hollywood (d: Mark Hartley) will have its international premiere, while Acolytes (d: Jon Hewitt) will have its North American premiere. Both films have featured strongly on the domestic festival circuit. This section highlights the weird and the wonderful, including thrillers, chillers and rockumentaries from directors whose genre work is not usually seen in a festival context. ‘NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD’ documents the exploitation of the Australian Film Industry during the 70’s and 80’s while ‘ACOLYTES’ tells the tale of three young men who’s attempts at blackmail go horribly wrong.
Discovery section: Three Blind Mice (d: Matthew Newton) will have its international premiere at the festival. The film recently had its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival where it was programmed as part of the inaugural Official Competition and received a special mention from the jury at the closing night ceremony for its energy, passion and superb ensemble cast.
The Discovery section will also showcase the world premiere of the first Australia/Israel co-production, the stop-motion animated feature $9.99 (d: Tatia Rosenthal). Narrated by Geoffrey Rush the film based on the short stories of celebrated Israeli writer Etgar Keret, the film will offer filmgoers slightly less than $10 worth about the meaning of life.
Real to Reel: The final film selected to screen is feature documentary Yes Madam, Sir (d: Megan Doneman) narrated by Helen Mirren. The film will have its world premiere is the first feature film from filmmaker Megan Doneman.
The final line-up for this year's Toronto International Film Festival includes highly anticipated features acquired by Palace Films for Australian and New Zealand distribution.
I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG TIFF Program: Special Presentations
Australian Release Date: 26 December 2008
This powerful story of familial struggles and redemption is the debut feature of novelist Philippe Claudel and stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Elsa Zylberstein. The film follows a shell-shocked Juliette (Scott Thomas), who returns to live with her younger sister Lea after being banished from the family for 15 years.
SUMMER HOURS - TIFF Program: Contemporary World Cinema
A heartrending French drama written and directed by auteur Olivier Assayas and starring Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling and Jérémie Renier, it tells the story of three siblings dealing with the death of their mother and disappearance of their childhood memories, as they make difficult decisions about what to do with her valuable estate.
TULPAN - TIFF Program: Discovery
Winner of the Un Certain Regard Prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year, Sergey Dvortsevoy's TULPAN takes an extraordinary look into the realities of life on the steppes of Kazakhstan. This is where we meet Asa, an aspiring shepherd who must find a wife before his dreams of owning his own flock can be realised.
GENOVA - World Premiere -TIFF Program: Special Presentations
From acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom comes GENOVA, a poignant tale of love and forgiveness starring Colin Firth, Catherine Keener and Hope Davis. Seeking a new life after the sudden death of his wife, Joe (Firth) moves his family to the Italian town of Genova, hoping for a fresh start for himself and his two daughters.
ACOLYTES - TIFF Program: Midnight Madness
An Australian thriller directed by Jon Hewitt (Redball, Bloodlust) and starring Joel Edgerton (The Square) and Michael Dorman (Suburban Mayhem), ACOLYTES is the story of three teens that blackmail a serial killer and are consequently lured into his violent world.
IL DIVO - TIFF Program: Special Presentations
**Screening as part of the Lavazza Italian Film Festival from September 2008**
Written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, this original and witty political opera looks at the life and longevity of eighty-nine year-old Giulio Andreotti. Having been Italy's prime-minister three times, Andreotti has enjoyed an uninterrupted sixty two years as a parliamentarian, despite twenty-six separate court cases on charges including corruption and Mafia involvement.
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