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The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a permanent destination for film culture operating out of the TIFF Bell Lightbox, located in Downtown Toronto. TIFF's mission is "to transform the way people see the world through film".
Drum is a 2004 film based on the life of South African investigative journalist Henry Nxumalo, who worked for Drum magazine, called "the first black lifestyle magazine in Africa". It was director Zola Maseko's first film and deals with the issues of apartheid and the forced removal of residents from Sophiatown. The film was originally to be a six-part television series called Sophiatown Short Stories, but Maseko could not get the funding. The lead roles of Henry Nxumalo and Drum main photographer Jürgen Schadeberg were played by American actors Taye Diggs and Gabriel Mann, while most of the rest of the cast were South African actors.
Lisa Kinkead Gasteen AO, is an Australian operatic soprano, known for her performances of the works of Wagner. She won the Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 1991. She did not perform between 2008 and 2011, due to neuro-muscular spasms in her neck.
Fido is a 2006 Canadian zombie comedy film directed by Andrew Currie and written by Robert Chomiak, Currie, and Dennis Heaton from an original story by Heaton. It was produced by Blake Corbet, Mary Anne Waterhouse, Trent Carlson and Kevin Eastwood of Anagram Pictures, and released in the United States by Lions Gate Entertainment.
Half Nelson is a 2006 American drama film directed by Ryan Fleck and written by Fleck and Anna Boden. The film stars Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps and Anthony Mackie. It was scored by Canadian band Broken Social Scene. 26-year-old Gosling was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, becoming the eighth-youngest nominee in the category.
All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane is a 2007 Australian romantic comedy film directed by Louise Alston and written by Stephen Vagg. It follows Anthea, a 25-year-old girl who hates her job and has to sit back and watch as all her friends move away from her hometown, Brisbane, to make a better life. In 2013, The Guardian referred to it as a "cult film" inspired by "a typically Brisbane lament... the departure of people in their late 20s to Sydney, Melbourne, London or New York."
TIFF Bell Lightbox is a cultural centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located in the first five floors of the Bell Lightbox and Festival Tower on the north west corner of King Street and John Street.
Blue Valentine is a 2010 American romantic drama film written and directed by Derek Cianfrance. Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne, and Joey Curtis wrote the film, and the band Grizzly Bear scored it. Blue Valentine depicts a married couple, played by Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, shifting back and forth in time between their courtship and the dissolution of their marriage several years later.
Jucy is an Australian comedy feature film produced in 2010 about the womance between two best female friends. The film was written by Stephen Vagg, directed by Louise Alston and produced by Kelly Chapman. It is the second in a planned "quarter life crisis" trilogy from Vagg and Alston following the 2007 romantic comedy All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane.
The 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival, (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 19, 2010. The opening night gala presented Score: A Hockey Musical, a Canadian comedy-drama musical film. Last Night closed the festival on September 19.
Behrouz Afkhami is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He is known for a style that utilizes point of view camera techniques to portray stories of human drama. He was also member of the Iranian Parliament from 2000 to 2004. He was the host of the third series of the television program, Haft.
Neil McGregor is an Australian born film maker who worked extensively in Vancouver, Canada.
Louise Alston is an Australian film director and producer best known for the movies All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane and Jucy.
Stephen Vagg is an Australian writer. He wrote the films All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, based on his play, and Jucy, as well as a number of plays and episodes of the television soaps Home and Away and Neighbours. He is the author of Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood, a biography of actor Rod Taylor, as well as a number of articles on film and theatre history. He received an AFI nomination for All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane. At the 2014 AWGIE Awards, Vagg won Best Script for a Television Serial for "Episode 6857" of Neighbours.
Cindy Nelson is a Brisbane-based actor best known for playing the lead role in the 2010 film Jucy, which was partly based on the real-life friendship between herself and co-star Francesca Gasteen. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Damien Freeleagus is a Brisbane-born actor whose credits include the films Jucy (2010) and Primal (2010). He also directed the short film Bird Therapy which was a Tropfest finalist in 2011.
Andrew Ryan is an Australian actor best known for his performance as Chris Lang in the film of Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010) and as one of the stars of The Jesters. Originally from Brisbane, he played roles in the films All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane and Jucy which were written specifically for him, and starred in a TV series, The Future Machine (2010) and Love Child. Ryan portrayed INXS keyboardist and main composer Andrew Farriss in the telemovie INXS: Never Tear Us Apart (2014) he also received an AACTA award nomination for this role.
The Lisa Gasteen National Opera School is an intensive, four-week program of study for young-professional or advanced-student opera singers and repetiteurs, founded by Lisa Gasteen, Australian opera singer. It takes place in late-Spring and early-Summer in Brisbane, Queensland at venues provided by Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. The summer school features a faculty of both Australian and international coaches and teachers. Endorsed by Lyndon Terracini, artistic director of Opera Australia, the summer school program will be held annually, subject to fundraising.
Cindy Kleine is an American film director, producer and video artist.
Perfect Pie is a 2002 Canadian film directed by Barbara Willis Sweete from a script by Judith Thompson. The screenplay was based on Thompson's play of the same name and stars Wendy Crewson, Barbara Williams, Alison Pill, and Rachel McAdams.
