This project is a wonderful keepsake for anyone who loves Canadian cinema and wants to get a real behind-the-scenes feel of the festival, |
This project is a wonderful keepsake for anyone who loves Canadian cinema and wants to get a real behind-the-scenes feel of the festival. |
To allow Canadian filmmakers to stand shoulder to shoulder with their international counterparts. |
We didn't steer away from the Karla thing this year, |
We didn't steer away from the Karla thing this year. We've seen the film. It was just that we decided, for artistic reasons, that we didn't want to screen it. |
We've been through some pretty major crises over the last little while. Air strikes and postal strikes, projectionists' strikes, we went through 9/11 in the middle of our festival. I think we'll roll with the punches. |
Which is why they're in the large venues like the Ryerson and the Elgin. The press screenings are actually happening after their world premiere so the key press, the key buyers are in those public screenings and that is important. |