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TIFF: Top 10 New Faces & Voices: #10. Dylan Riley Snyder

Part of the fun of the whole film festival experience is discovering new talents, both in front and behind of the camera. Since I’m an avid fan of the top ten list format, I thought I’d go at this again. Cannes gave us two break-thru perfs in acting from A Prophet’s Tahar Rahim and Fish Tank’s Katie Jarvis (both were mentioned once again in IndieWIRE’s TIFF poll), I featured the both of them in this apres Cannes’ piece.

Eric Lavallée

Published on September 24, 2009

#10. Dylan Riley Snyder

Part of the fun of the whole film festival experience is discovering new talents, both in front and behind of the camera. Since I’m an avid fan of the top ten list format, I thought I’d go at this again. Cannes gave us two break-thru perfs in acting from A Prophet‘s Tahar Rahim and Fish Tank‘s Katie Jarvis (both were mentioned once again in IndieWIRE’s TIFF poll), I featured the both of them in this apres Cannes’ piece.

So here we go with some TIFF standouts, commencing with one of the littlest members in Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime. I think its safe to say that Solondz gets a kick out of putting adult words and ideas in his string of child characters, here pre-teen Dylan Riley Snyder took on the role of the inquisitive Timmy Maplewood – the middle child. Snyder manages to hold his own especially in scenes with Allison Janney who deliciously plays the faulty mother role – a part that Cynthia Stevenson played ten years back. A quick IMDB check shows us that this is among the young actors first roles.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).