On Tuesday, Septemer 9, Canadian-made film Pontypool, a movie by director Bruce McDonald of The Tracey Fragments, (starring 2007 Oscar nominee Ellen Page from the movie Juno) screened at TIFF’s Vanguard, a program dedicated to groundbreaking films.
On Sunday, September 7, English-made film Slumdog Millionaire made its debut at TIFF, where it handily won the Cadillac People’s Choice Award. All of this considering that Slumdog Millionaire nearly went straight to DVD after Warners’ Independent Pictures closed its doors earlier this year.
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A crowd of filmmakers and other members of the film industry gathered outside the Haft Auditorium at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) at various times today, as they did every day this week, waiting to get into the Independent Filmmaker Conferences, in which filmmakers, producers, distributors, agents, and buyers discussed a variety of issues pertaining to independent filmmaking.
From 9:30 to 10:30 this morning, bits of new works from talent supported by the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund were presented at Chelsea Cinemas to members of the industry.
Short narrative films by emerging filmmakers from the City University of New York schools were screened from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. today at Chelsea Cinemas, as part of the NextGenNYC Short Film Showcases, a new program initiated by IFP and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting. Most of the filmmakers were in the audience, but the theater was nearly empty.
