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PHOTO GALLERY: Bright Star premiere at the Visa Screening Room with Ben Whishaw
Jane Campion’s TIFF offering, Bright Star, premiered last night at the Visa Screening Room. The film tells the story of the relationship between the poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). Take a peek at our red carpet photos below.
Me and you and nobody else we know: How to score 96 hours alone with Danny Boyle
Tilda offers her star power to the TIFF Talent Lab (Photo by Attit Patel)
What’s a film freak gotta do to get locked in a room with Danny Boyle for four days? Win a spot in TIFF’s Talent Lab, that’s what. The Lab is a six-year old festival program, wherein 25 aspiring filmmakers are hand-picked and then guided through four intensive days of workshops, networking and good, old-fashioned gabbing with as many hot-shit industry insiders as TIFF execs wrangle. Yesterday we attended the 2009 Talent Lab launch, where this year’s picks gathered to find out exactly who TIFF execs could lay their hands on.
The answer: pretty much anyone they want. Besides drop-in guests like Tilda Swinton and Jane Campion, Labbers will benefit from the tutelage of four main “governors,” who volunteer for the entire 96-hour stint: Mr. Slumdog himself, hipster jack-of-all-trades Miranda July, Blindness writer/star Don McKellar and John Collee, the Aussie screenwriter who penned Creation, this year’s opening film.
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Celeb-spotting warm-up: let the speculation begin
TIFF bound? Tina Fey stars in The Invention of Lying (Photo by George Arriola)
No celebrity’s attendance at TIFF has been officially confirmed, but yesterday’s announcement of opening galas and special presentations gives us a good idea of who’s expected to venture to Toronto in September. Here’s a quick breakdown of which movies are being screened and which stars we expect to see milling about Yorkville 50 days hence.
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