“2009 Toronto International Film Festival”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The 34th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 10 and September 19, 2009. The opening night gala presented the Charles Darwin biography Creation. The Young Victoria, based on the early years of Queen Victoria, closed the festival on September 19.^[1]^[2]

About the 2009 Festival

TIFF is a non-profit organization whose goal is to change the way people look at the world through film. The festival is Canada's largest film festival, receiving 4,209 submissions in 2008. Of this total, 312 films were screened coming from 64 different countries. TIFF creates an annual economic impact of $135 million CAD. Aided by over 2,000 volunteers, 100 full-time staff members and 500 seasonal or part-time staff are responsible for organizing the festival. Two screenings of each of the invited films are presented to the public and at least one screening is provided for press and industry. The 2009 festival contained 19 different Programmes, or categories of films. After the ten days of film, the Awards reception was held at Intercontinental Hotel on Front Street in Toronto.

Perhaps the most prestigious of the awards was bestowed to Lee Daniels's Precious: based on the novel Push by Sapphire. This award was the 2009 Cadillac People's Choice Award and is based solely on votes by Festival audiences. This award carries a $15,000 cash prize and also comes with a custom made award from Cadillac. It is widely considered to be the most prestigious because it has had the greatest impact on audiences and inspires film distributors to sign the winning film for larger international releases. Last year's winner Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle, went on to reap huge international spotlight which culminated at the 2009 Academy Awards where it won Best Picture. Lee Daniel's Precious was also a big Oscar contender as it was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director, however it lost to The Hurt Locker and its helmer Katheryn Bigelow. The First runner-up was Bruce Beresford's Mao's Last Dancer and the second runner-up was Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs.

The City of Toronto and Astral Media's The Movie Network Award for Best Canadian Feature Film went to Cairo Time directed by Ruba Nadda. Sponsored by Astral Media's the Movie Network and the City of Toronto, this award came with a cash prize of $30,000.

Future endeavors by the TIFF will be aided by the ongoing construction of TIFF Bell Lightbox, a {{convert|1750000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} facility with an estimated annual economic impact of over $200 million. Complete with 5 cinemas, learning studios, galleries and a rooftop lounge, this will become the hub of TIFF in 2010 when construction is scheduled to be completed.

Controversy over Tel Aviv spotlight

More than 1,500 people, including prominent filmmakers, academics, and writers signed a letter of protest directed at the Toronto International Film Festival regarding its decision to spotlight Tel Aviv and the work of 10 Israeli filmmakers.^[3]^[4] The protest leaders emphasized that it is not a call for a boycott.^[5]^[6] The original protest letter in part reads:

The signatories and supporters include Ken Loach, David Byrne, Naomi Klein, Alice Walker, Jane Fonda, Wallace Shawn, Danny Glover,^[4] John Greyson,^[12] Viggo Mortensen and the American Jewish group Jewish Voice for Peace.^[6]

The protest letter was met with condemnation by some, such as Simcha Jacobovici, "a Toronto filmmaker who recently moved with his family to Israel, noted in a statement that the Palestinian government in Gaza had recently called a U.N. proposal to teach the Holocaust in Palestinian schools a war crime." Jacobovici asked "Why does [protest supporter John Greyson] want to align himself with Holocaust deniers?"^[4] Others accused those who signed the protest letter as engaging in a boycott of Israel films.^[4]

Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has stated that "it is clear that the script [the protesters] are reading from might as well have been written by Hamas."^[12]

Patrick Goldstein, writing in the Los Angeles Times, wrote against the protest and made an analogy to actions by musician Paul Simon:

In response to the protest, a number of Hollywood stars circulated a counter-protest letter on September 15, 2009. This letter, which appeared simultaneously in the Los Angeles Times and the Toronto Star, included signatories Jerry Seinfeld, Sacha Baron Cohen, Natalie Portman, Jason Alexander, Lisa Kudrow, Lenny Kravitz, Patricia Heaton, Jacob Richler, Noah Richler, George F. Walker and Moses Znaimer. The letter said:

Jane Fonda, in a posting on Huffington Post, says that she now regrets some of the language used in the original protest letter and how it "was perhaps too easily misunderstood. It certainly has been wildly distorted. Contrary to the lies that have been circulated, the protest letter was not demonizing Israeli films and filmmakers." She continued writing "the greatest 're-branding' of Israel would be to celebrate that country's long standing, courageous and robust peace movement by helping to end the blockade of Gaza through negotiations with all parties to the conflict, and by stopping the expansion of West Bank settlements. That's the way to show Israel's commitment to peace, not a PR campaign. There will be no two-state solution unless this happens."^[15]

Awards

Programmes

Special presentations

City to City

Contemporary World Cinema

Discovery

Future Projections

Gala Presentations

Masters

Midnight Madness^[18]

Reel to Reel

Vanguard

Visions

References

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2. ^{{cite web|url=http://tiff.net/pdfs/TIFF2009AnnualReport.pdf|title=2009 Toronto International Film Festival Annual report|accessdate=October 11, 2013}}
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4. ^¹²³⁴{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/tiff-2009/tiff-focus-on-tel-aviv-draws-protests/article1273755/ |title=TIFF focus on Tel Aviv draws protests |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=September 2, 2009 |first=Michael |last=Posner |accessdate=May 11, 2013}}
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10. ^¹²{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2009/08/29/greyson-tiff-pullout.html |title=Canadian director protests TIFF Tel Aviv spotlight |work=CBC News |date=August 29, 2009 |accessdate=May 11, 2013}}
11. ^Brand Israel set to launch in GTA {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912044103/http://www.cjnews.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15198&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=86 |date=2009-09-12 }}, Canadian Jewish News, August 21, 2009.
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13. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-bigpicture12-2009sep12,0,6666441.story |title=Protest over Israel roils Toronto Film Festival |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=September 12, 2009 |first=Patrick |last=Goldstein |accessdate=May 11, 2013}}
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15. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-fonda/expanding-the-narrative_b_286406.html |title=Expanding the Narrative |first=Jane |last=Fonda |authorlink=Jane Fonda |work=The Huffington Post |date=September 14, 2009 |accessdate=May 11, 2013}}
16. ^"2009 Toronto International Film Festival Winners" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112210849/http://tiff.net/thefestival/about/awards/awards2009 |date=2013-11-12 }}. tiff.net, October 11, 2013.
17. ^"Festival Closes 2009 Edition With Awards Announcement". tiff.net, October 10, 2013.
18. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ultra8.ca/content2/mmhistory.html|title=History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme|accessdate=October 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019173241/http://www.ultra8.ca/content2/mmhistory.html|archive-date=2013-10-19|dead-url=yes|df=}}