Thursday, September 6, 2012

TIFF 2012 OPENING DAY: STARS ALIGN IN THE CITY AS TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

















Toronto
The 37th Toronto International Film Festival® will roll out the red carpet for hundreds of guests from the four corners of the
globe in September. Filmmakers expected to present their world premieres in Toronto include: Rian Johnson, Noah Baumbach, Deepa
Mehta, Derek Cianfrance, Sion Sono, Joss Whedon, Neil Jordan, Lu Chuan, Shola Lynch, Barry Levinson, Yvan Attal, Ben Affleck,
Marina Zenovich, Costa-Gavras, Laurent Cantet, Sally Potter, Dustin Hoffman, Francois Ozon, David O. Russell, David Ayer, Pelin
Esmer, Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, Andrew Adamson, Michael McGowan, Bahman Ghobadi, Ziad Doueiri, Alex
Gibney, Stephen Chbosky,
Eran Riklis, Edward Burns, Bernard Émond, Zhang Yuan, Michael Winterbottom, Mike Newell, Miwa
Nishikawa, Margarethe Von Trotta, David Siegel, Scott McGehee, Gauri Shinde,
Goran Paskaljevic, Baltasar Kormákur, J.A. Bayona,
Rob Zombie, Peaches and Paul Andrew Williams.
Actors expected to attend include: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jackie Chan, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Bill Murray, Robert
Redford, Riz Ahmed, Ryan Gosling, Robert De Niro, Stephen Dorff, Dennis Quaid, Jennifer Connelly, Billy Bob Thornton, Bradley
Cooper, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard,
Colin Firth, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, James
Franco, Javier Bardem, Hiroshi Abe, Elle Fanning, Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Zhang Ziyi, Greta Gerwig, Helen Hunt, Laura
Linney, Logan Lerman, Keira Knightley, Mads Mikkelsen, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Lawrence, Julianne Moore, Greg Kinnear, Gael
García
Bernal, Sridevi, Saoirse Ronan, Selena Gomez, Salman Rushdie, Sam Rockwell, Naomi Watts, Will Smith, Kristen Stewart,
Kirsten Dunst, Johnny Depp, Terence Stamp and Vanessa Redgrave.
Speakers and documentary subjects: Ice-T, Thelma Houston, Janice Stein, Michael Ignatieff, Angela Davis, Slavoj Žižek and Snoop
Lion.
The Festival also welcomes thousands of producers and other industry professionals bringing films to us.

The following filmmakers are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:
Lenny Abrahamson, Gabriel Abrantes, Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, Ashim Ahluwalia, John Akomfrah, Hala Alabdalla, Henry Alex
Rubin, Dan Algrant, Paul Thomas Anderson, Nicolaj Arcel, Dante Ariola, Rodney Ascher, Olivier Assayas, Rowan Athale, Yvan Attal,
Stephane Aubier, Jacques Audiard, Benjamín Ávila, David Ayer, Licínio Azevedo, Ramin Bahrani, Vincent Bal, Vasan Bala, Jeremy
Ball, Dibakar Banerjee, Philip Barker, Noah Baumbach, J.A. Bayona, Marco Bellocchio, Lewis Bennett, Amy Berg, Pablo Berger, Barry
Berk, Brad Bernstein, Sébastien Betbeder, Antoinette Beumer, Susanne Bier, Wang Bing, Vincent Biron, Wayne Blair, Stuart
Blumberg, Billy Bob Thornton, Nicholas Bonner, Josh Boone, Patrick Bouchard, Maxence Bradley, Manon Briand, Stéphane Brizé,
Edward Burns, Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, Rama Burshtein, Jason Buxton, Laurent Cantet, Andrew Capper, Juan Carlos Medina, Nick
Cassavetes, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Sergio Castellitto, Stephen Chbosky, Soi Cheang, Ali Cherri, Nenad Cicin-Sain, Daniele Ciprì,
Abdoul Aziz Cissé, Mary Helena Clark, Mike Clattenburg, Joe Cobden, Jem Cohen, Robert Connolly, Matthew Cooke, Catherine
Corsini, Don Coscarelli, Brandon Cronenberg, Jonas D'Adesky, Lee Daniels, Nina Davenport, Deco Dawson, Brian De Palma,
Leonardo di Costanzo, Xavier Dolan, Tom Donahue, Choi Dong-hoon, Ziad Doueiri, Ben Drew, Stephen Dunn,
Kirsten Dunst, Sophie
Dupuis, Ava DuVernay, Mona Eldaief, Jeroen Elsinga, Heinz Emigholz,
Bernard Émond, Pelin Esmer, Habib Faisal, Sophie Fiennes,
Mahdi Fleifel, Fantavious Fritz, Stephen Fung, Zézé Gamboa, Anand Gandhi, Jesper Ganslandt, Liz Garbus, José Luis García,
Adrían Garcia Bogliano, Matteo Garrone, Connor Gaston, Costa-Gavras, Ernie Gehr, Bahman Ghobadi, John Gianvito, Alex Gibney,
Tess Girard, Marcelo Gomes, Miguel Gomes, Michel Gondry, Dan Gordon, Danis Goulet, Sophie Goyette, Joana Hadjithomas ,
Asoka Handagama, Michael Haneke, Toke Constantin Hebbeln, Shai Heredia, Julio Hernández Cordón, Jorge Hinojosa, Dustin
Hoffman, Toomas Hussar, Luu Huynh, Markus Imhoof, Annemarie Jacir, Andrzej Jakimowski, Sophie Jarvis, Jim Jennings, Hur Jin-Ho,
Sara Johnsen, Rian Johnson, Bill Jones, Neil Jordan, Khalil Joreige, Jon Jost, Marie-Ève Juste, Chen Kaige, Girish Kasaravalli,
Anurag Kashyap, Shambhavi Kaul, Mika Kaurismäki, Jean-Paul Kelly, Ryuhei Kitamura, Harmony Korine, Baltasar Kormákur, Tony
Krawitz, Amit Kumar, Kiyoshi Kurosawa , Susan Lacy, Jun Robles Lana, Pablo Larraín, Elizabeth Lazebnik, Jeanne Leblanc, Grace
Lee, Spike Lee, Barry Levinson, Ben Lewin, Ying Liang, Tobias Lindholm, Álvaro Longoria, Nicolás López, Chuan Lu, Frieda Luk,
Johann Lurf, Ektoras Lygizos, Shola Lynch, Johnny Ma, Catriona MacKenzie, Dusty Mancinelli, Juan Carlos Maneglia, Mikael
Marcimain, Minda Martin, Anna Marziano, Michael Mayer, Martin McDonagh, Scott McGehee, Michael McGowan, Ashley McKenzie,
David McMahon, Justin McMillan, Hansal Mehta, Deepa Mehta, Brillante Mendoza, Sylvie Michel, Roger Michell, Maja Milos, Dror
Moreh, Evan Morgan, Reem Morsi, Ramaa Mosley, Cristian Mungiu, Ruba Nadda, Mira Nair, Rola Nashef, Yousry Nasrallah,
Christopher Nelius, Mike Newell, Kim Nguyen, Miwa Nishikawa, Bahar Noorizadeh, Aleksander Nordaas, Jehane Noujaim, Seán Ó
Cualáin, David O. Russell, Charles Officer, Joshua Oppenheimer, Sakay Ottawa, Rafaël Ouellet, Saïd Ould-Khelifa, Damien Ounouri,
Véréna Paravel,
Francois Ozon, Goran Paskaljevic, Vincent Patar, Peaches, JT Petty, Aaron Phelan, Gabriela Pichler, Matias Piñeiro,
Ana Piterbarg, Sarah Polley, James Ponsoldt, Sally Potter, Luis Prieto, Robert Pulcini, Robert Redford, Kelvin Redvers, Dylan
Reibling, Benjamin Renner, Nicholas Rey, Eran Riklis, Chloe Robichaud, João Pedro Rodrigues, Joachim Roenning, Kasia
Roslaniec, João Rui Guerra da Mata, Li Ruijun, Javier Ruiz Caldera, Evgeny Ruman, Dror Sabo, Matt Austin Sadowski, Walter Salles,
Espen Sandberg, Valeria Sarmiento, Tana Schémbori, Ulrich Seidl, Dan Setton, Nik Sexton, Graydon Sheppard, Gauri Shinde, Ben
Shirinian, Cate Shortland, David Siegel, Fern Silva, Jeff Simpson, Manjeet Singh, Sion Sono, Patrick Sisam, Iannis Smaragdis, Josh
Solondz, Eva Sørhaug, Carlos Sorin, Shari Springer Berman, Jeffrey St. Jules, Andrew Stanton,
Kristen Stewart, Pablo Stoll Ward,
Peter Strickland, Barbara Sukowa, Jo Sung-hee, Carla Susanto, Bruce Sweeney, Mohit Takalkar, Yuki Tanada, Peng Tao, Genny
Tartakovsky, Julien Temple, Michiel ten Horn, Martin Thibaudeau, Ben Timlett, Janet Tobias, Jose Torregrossa, Pablo Trapero, Pete
Travis, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Tom Tykwer, Kenji Uchida, Theodore Ushev, William Vega, Nacho Vigalondo, Thomas Vinterberg,
Friedl Vom Groeller, Margarethe von Trotta, Arien Vromen, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Marc-Henri Wajnberg, Kieron J.
Walsh, Peter Webber, Ben Wheatley, Joss Whedon, Marc Wiese, Travis Wilkerson, Blake Williams, Jonathan Williams, Andrew
Williamson, Adam Wingard, Alice Winocour, Michael Winterbottom, Jeff Wong, Jessica Woodworth, Joe Wright, Treva Wurmfeld, Kang
Yi-kwan, Soon-Mi Yoo,
Zhang Yuan, Marina Zenovich, Yaron Zilberman and Rob Zombie.
The following guests are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:
Konate Abdoul Karim, Hiroshi Abe, Ben Affleck, Riz Ahmed, Michael Angarano, Angelababy, Onata Aprile, Carlos Areces, Alan Arkin,
Gemma Arterton, Penn Badgley, Doona Bae, Javier Bardem, Jason Bateman, Monica Bellucci, Imad Benchenni, Halle Berry,
Magdalena Berus, Ruba Blal, Billy Bob Thornton, Park Bo-Young, Stéphane Breton, Jim Broadbent, Pierce Brosnan, Nichola Burley,
Edward Burns,
Jackie Chan, Jonas Chernick, Lily Collins, Jennifer Connelly, Bradley Cooper, Marion Cotillard, Bryan Cranston, Darren
Criss, James Cromwell, Penelope Cruz, James D'Arcy, Johnny Dark, Keith David, Angela Davis,
Robert De Niro, Andrea del Campo,
Catherine Deneuve, Johnny Depp, Stephen Dorff, Fran Drescher, Patrice Dubois, Robert Duvall, Trine Dyrholm, Zac Efron, Mary
Elizabeth Winstead, Gad Elmaleh, Alice Englert, Nilay Erdonmez, Elle Fanning, Colin Farrell, Alexia Fast, Alexander Fehling, America
Ferrara, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Matthew Fox, James Franco, Patrick Fugit, Josh Gad, Sarah Gadon, Victor Garber, José Luis
García, Gael García Bernal, Greta Gerwig, Alex Gibney, Selena Gomez, John Goodman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ryan Gosling,
Holliday Grainger, Martina Gusman, David Gyasi, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emily Hampshire, Tom Hanks, John Hawkes, Garrett Hedlund,
Christina Hendricks, Emile Hirsch, Chen Hong, Pedro Hossi, Thelma Houston, Kate Hudson, Helen Hunt, Adil Hussain, Ice-T, Jeremy
Irvine, Toby Irvine, Connor Jessup, Terry Jones, Neeraj Kabi, Catherine Keener, Anna Kendrick, Greg Kinnear, Keira Knightley,
Sebastian Koch, Olga Kurylenko, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicolas Lea, Tommy Lee Jones, Logan Lerman, Jared
Leto, Liano Liberato, Laura Linney, Snoop Lion, Ray Liotta, William H. Macy, Deborah Mailman, Makinov, Sarah Manninen, Tatiana
Maslany, Jessica Mauboy, Rachel McAdams, Callan McAullife, Martin McCann, Ewan McGregor, Eva Mendes, Mads Mikkelson,
Ezra Miller, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Bill Murray, Mehdi Nebbou, Alessandro Nivola, Chris O'Dowd, Gwyneth Paltrow, Paula
Patton, Michael Pena, Marija Pikic, Oliver Platt, Julien Poulin, Dennis Quaid, Aida Radwan Mostafa Elkashef, Lázaro Ramos,
Vanessa
Redgrave,
Joely Richardson, Tim Robbins, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Gabrielle Rose, Saskia Rosendahl, Eli Roth, Mark Ruffalo,
Salman Rushdie,
Winona Ryder, Vik Sahay, Andy Samberg, Adam Sandler, Shriya Saran, Susan Sarandon, Matthias Schoenaerts,
Liev Schreiber, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Shari Sebbens, Suresh Shah, Michael Shannon, Molly Shannon, Siddarth, Alexander Siddig,
Olgun Simsek, Saleem Sinai, Alexander Skarsgård, Maggie Smith, Will Smith, David Spade, Timothy Spall, Sridevi,
Terence Stamp,
Janice Stein,
Jim Sturgess, Mickey Sumner, Kiefer Sutherland, Miranda Tapsell, Audrey Tautou, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Juno Temple,
Marisa Tomei, Nele Trebs, Aya Ueto, Karl Urban, Carice Van Houten, Jelka Van Houten, Emma Watson, Naomi Watts, Hugo
Weaving, Ben Whishaw, Kristen Wiig, Alex Williams, Bruce Willis, Jane Edith Wilson, Nat Wolff, Zhou Xun, Ronald Zehrfield,
Zhang
Ziyi and Slavoj Žižek.
The Festival’s Official Film Schedule was released today, and is available at the Festival Box Office or by visiting
tiff.net/festival.
Copies will also be distributed in
The Grid on Thursday, August 23. Thursday’s issue of the Toronto Star will contain a 24-page section
on the Festival, which includes the full film schedule.
Festival single tickets go on sale September 2. Purchase tickets online at
tiff.net/festival, by phone Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to
7 p.m. ET at 416.599.TIFF or 1.888.599.8433, and in person at the Festival Box Office located at 225 King St West. The 37
th Toronto
International Film Festival runs September 6 to 16, 2012.
About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international
leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which
features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film
Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $170 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by
contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman
family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit
tiff.net.
The Toronto International Film Festival is generously supported by Lead Sponsor Bell, Major Sponsors RBC, L'Oréal Paris,
Visa and Audi, and Major Supporters the Government of Ontario, Telefilm Canada and the City of Toronto.

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