An indication that Atom Egoyan's Chloe will most definitely find a competition slot in Venice, TIFF has uncharacteristically went with a foreign English language title as the film festival's opening night selection. The spot usually reserved for a Canadian film went to Jon Amiel's unsold Creation which will have its world premiere on the 10th of September.
Behemoth indie distributor Sony Pictures Classics ("Redbelt", "Standard Operation Procedure") taps Atom Egoyan's Adoration for domestic and select international distribution rights.
A little more than 13 directors/screenwriters will be getting a helping hand via the likes of Robert Elswit, Stephen Gaghan, Atom Egoyan and Joan Tewkesbury this summer for the Sundance Institute's annual summer labs.
A common meeting place for auteur cinema, a special film was designed to recall the history of the section with testimonies from a who's who of favorite directors in Todd Haynes, Jacques Rozier, Costa Gavras, Michael Raeburn, Ken Loach, Alain Tanner, Carlos Diegues, Werner Herzog, Theo Angelopoulos, André Téchiné, Chantal Akerman, the Taviani brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Yousry Nasrallah, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Atom Egoyan, Michael Haneke, Peter Sellars, Naomi Kawase, Manoel de Oliveira, the Dardenne brothers, Stephen Frears, Sofia Coppola, Eric Khoo, Kim Rossi Stuart, Lisandro Alonso, Christophe Honoré, Bong Joon-Ho, William Friedkin and Jacques Nolot.
Named after the influential film Platform (2000) by the great "Sixth Generation" master filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke, it'll soon be a decade since TIFF introduced...