On Sunday, Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book” won the Toronto International Film Festival’s coveted People’s Choice Award, pushing it ahead in the Oscar race. The ’60s true story about jazz musician Don Shirley (“Moonlight” Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali) and the Bronx bouncer (Viggo Mortensen) who protected him on a concert tour of the deep South played well to critics and audiences. In taking the prize, it beat runners-up “If Beale Street Could Talk” (Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to “Moonlight”), as well as Alfonso Cuaron’s black-and-white Spanish-language “Roma.”
Expected winner “A Star is Born,” which inspired multiple standing ovations, didn’t place, amid questions about the festival’s new online voting methods, as reports spread that people were voting for “A Star Is Born” via multiple emails. If so, it didn’t work. Artistic Director Cameron Bailey explained in an email:
We analyze the voting data to make sure the votes are legitimate.
Expected winner “A Star is Born,” which inspired multiple standing ovations, didn’t place, amid questions about the festival’s new online voting methods, as reports spread that people were voting for “A Star Is Born” via multiple emails. If so, it didn’t work. Artistic Director Cameron Bailey explained in an email:
We analyze the voting data to make sure the votes are legitimate.
- 9/17/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
On Sunday, Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book” won the Toronto International Film Festival’s coveted People’s Choice Award, pushing it ahead in the Oscar race. The ’60s true story about jazz musician Don Shirley (“Moonlight” Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali) and the Bronx bouncer (Viggo Mortensen) who protected him on a concert tour of the deep South played well to critics and audiences. In taking the prize, it beat runners-up “If Beale Street Could Talk” (Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to “Moonlight”), as well as Alfonso Cuaron’s black-and-white Spanish-language “Roma.”
Expected winner “A Star is Born,” which inspired multiple standing ovations, didn’t place, amid questions about the festival’s new online voting methods, as reports spread that people were voting for “A Star Is Born” via multiple emails. If so, it didn’t work. Artistic Director Cameron Bailey explained in an email:
We analyze the voting data to make sure the votes are legitimate.
Expected winner “A Star is Born,” which inspired multiple standing ovations, didn’t place, amid questions about the festival’s new online voting methods, as reports spread that people were voting for “A Star Is Born” via multiple emails. If so, it didn’t work. Artistic Director Cameron Bailey explained in an email:
We analyze the voting data to make sure the votes are legitimate.
- 9/17/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The Harold Greenberg Fund, a Canadian private cinematographic patronage program, announced the title of the 26 films that got supported by its script development program. Here are the projects:
Story Optioning
The Flying Troutmans
Four Seasons Productions Inc.
Screenwriters: Miriam Toews & Semi Chellas
The Journal of Mortifying Moments
Marcon Pictures Inc., T.L. Boulton Productions Ltd. & Calder Road Films Inc.
Screenwriters: Jill Girling & Lori Mather-Welch
The Outlander
Strada Films Inc. & Triptych Media Inc.
Screenwriter: Esta Spalding
Sailor Girl
Markham Street Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Johanna Schneller
Treatment to First Draft
Flop House
John Hazlett
Screenwriters: Darren Curtis & John Hazlett
Happy Clean, The Last Chinese Laundry
Picture Plant Ltd.
Screenwriter: William D. MacGillivray
Kill Shakespeare
Anthony Del Col & Conor McCreery
Screenwriters: Anthony Del Col & Conor McCreery
A Royal Day
Conquering Lion Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Gerald Wexler
Shanghai Follies
Amf Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: Ann Marie Fleming
First to Second Draft
Cottage Country
Whizbang Films Inc.
Story Optioning
The Flying Troutmans
Four Seasons Productions Inc.
Screenwriters: Miriam Toews & Semi Chellas
The Journal of Mortifying Moments
Marcon Pictures Inc., T.L. Boulton Productions Ltd. & Calder Road Films Inc.
Screenwriters: Jill Girling & Lori Mather-Welch
The Outlander
Strada Films Inc. & Triptych Media Inc.
Screenwriter: Esta Spalding
Sailor Girl
Markham Street Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Johanna Schneller
Treatment to First Draft
Flop House
John Hazlett
Screenwriters: Darren Curtis & John Hazlett
Happy Clean, The Last Chinese Laundry
Picture Plant Ltd.
Screenwriter: William D. MacGillivray
Kill Shakespeare
Anthony Del Col & Conor McCreery
Screenwriters: Anthony Del Col & Conor McCreery
A Royal Day
Conquering Lion Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Gerald Wexler
Shanghai Follies
Amf Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: Ann Marie Fleming
First to Second Draft
Cottage Country
Whizbang Films Inc.
- 4/22/2011
- by anhkhoido@gmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
TORONTO -- Former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell will head the jury for the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, organizers said Thursday.
Mitchell, currently host of KCRW's "The Treatment" and editor-at-large at Interview magazine, will be joined on the jury for international features by Canadian film writer Johanna Schneller and Iikka Vehkalahti, a documentary commissioning editor at Finland's YLE TV 2 channel.
The Canadian features jury will comprise Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bahkshi, Canadian documentary producer Michael Burns and Rada Sesic, a festival programmer with the International Rotterdam Film Festival and the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Hot Docs, North America's largest documentary festival, runs April 17-27 in Toronto.
Mitchell, currently host of KCRW's "The Treatment" and editor-at-large at Interview magazine, will be joined on the jury for international features by Canadian film writer Johanna Schneller and Iikka Vehkalahti, a documentary commissioning editor at Finland's YLE TV 2 channel.
The Canadian features jury will comprise Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bahkshi, Canadian documentary producer Michael Burns and Rada Sesic, a festival programmer with the International Rotterdam Film Festival and the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Hot Docs, North America's largest documentary festival, runs April 17-27 in Toronto.
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