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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL |
| Jeremy Podeswa |
Interview with Jeremy Podeswa, whose film The Five Senses won Best Canadian Feature at Toronto 99. |
| E. Levy & C. O Hara |
Interview with Eugene Levy and Catherine O Hara talking about the Gala Film, Best in Show by Christopher Guest. |
| M. Gorris director of The Luzhin Defence |
We met up with Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris at the Edinburgh Festival just before her latest film, The Luzhin Defence, arrived in Toronto for its Gala screening. |
| David Cronenberg |
David Cronenberg talked to us about Camera, one of the Prelude short films made by Canada's favorite filmmakers in honor of the 25th edtion of the festival. |
| David Kelly |
Interview with David Kelly, actor in Greenfingers by Joel Hershman, who also was the naked motorcycle driver in Waking Ned Devine. |
| Clive Owen |
Interview with Clive Owen, actor in Joel Hershman’s Greenfingers, an intelligent and heart-warming story about inmates turned gardeners. |
| Joel |
Joel Hershman reveals his approach to Greenfingers and the influence of his theatre background on making films. |
| Trudy Styler |
Trudy Styler (Stings’s wife) produced Greenfingers that she considers a highly character-driven piece. |
| Warren Clark |
Warren Clark, another actor playing an inmate in Greenfingers. |
| Jennifer Coolidge |
Interview with Jennifer Coolidge and Jane Lynch talking about Best in Show by Christopher Guest. |
| Mark Jonathan Harris |
Mark Jonathan Harris relates his choices in the making of Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, a moving documentary about a rescue operation of children escaping captivity by the Nazi regime. In on the interview, Ms Rosenfeld relates the moving experience it was for her to be in this film. |
| Debra Oppenheimer and Curt Fuchel |
Also speaking about this personal story Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, the producer Debra Oppenheimer and Curt Fuchel from the Kindertransport Association. |
| Trevor Wood |
Trevor Wood is the director of the oddly named Dry Hump Tilt, an independent Canadian feature that had some trouble getting into the Perspectives Canada section of the Toronto Film Festival. Wood blames this on what he perceives as a quota system for entrants, as all provinces have to be represented. In typically Canadian fashion however, his work was appreciated elsewhere, and the London Raindance Festival accepted his fim into the Canadian section of their program. Here he talks about his first feature film before he heads off to England to attend the festival. |
| Scott Smith |
Rollercoaster Director. Born in Alberta and raised in British Columbia, Canada, Smith is a cinematographer, editor and director. He is a graduate of Simon Fraser University and attended Norman Jewison s Canadian Film Centre as Director resident. Rollercoaster is his first feature. It is a film shot in 1998 which has toured the world festivals to critical acclaim and awards but\ndid not land a distributor. Hence Smith is releasing the film himself. Here he discusses coming to terms with the industry and the making of this exciting and brash movie about a teenage wasteland.\n |
| Jonathan Glazer |
This UK director, coming from a music video background, presented his first feature, Sexy Beast, at a Gala Screening in Toronto. The film is a thriller where action takes second place to a good old-fashioned battle of two immovable wills: Oscar-award winning actor Ben Kingsley and British stalwart Ray Winstone. Jonathan talks openly about working with Ben Kingsley and a number of projects in the works. |
| Ben Kingsley |
Arriving for the Gala Screening of Sexy Beast, Kingsley related how he had to « find the Demon within » for his role as Gary in this psychological thriller. |
| Rob Sitch |
This Australian director brings to the screen an immensely funny spin on the events surrounding man’s first steps on the moon on July 20, 1969. Rob believes that we have much to learn from this monumental event and the film is based on a true story focusing on the scientists who struggled to make the historic broadcast possible. |
| Mahamet-Saleh Haroun |
Mahamet-Saleh Haroun was born in Chad and now lives in France. His funny
yet telling docu-drama Bye Bye Africa chronicles his journey through his
native land, investigating ruined cinemas and discovering a film community
trying to recover from brutal war. Bye Bye Africa is part of Toronto's
Planet Africa series, a term which Haroun takes on scathingly during his
short film for the 25X25 serie. In 25X25, twenty-five filmmakers from around the world were given digital cameras by The Toronto Film Festival,
to create tiny vignettes of their experiences in Toronto. Here he discusses
his film and the Planet Africa series. |
| Renny Bartlett |
Renny Bartlett is the Canadian born director of Eisenstein, a
German/Canadian film about the life of famed Russian director Sergei
Eisenstein. Shot in the Ukraine and starring English actor Simon McBurney,
Eisenstein faced many unusual challenges, the least of which was working
with Russian film crews who had not worked for ten years. |
| John Greyson |
John Greyson is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker known for his famous gay musical Zero Patience and the lovely film Lilies. Here he discusses
The Law of Enclosures, about a couple who have been together since
adolescence, based on the book by Dale Peck. This film also stars Sarah
Polley (Go) one of Canada's most promising stars. |
| Raymond De Felitta |
Raymond de Feliita is the director and Michael Risopi the star of Two
Family House, a 1950's period piece about a hapless man Budddy (Rispoli),
who refuses to stop trying for success. His latest scheme is to rent a
dilapited house and convert half of it into a bar. His Irish tenant, an old
man and a very pregnant young wife have other ideas. Here De Felitta and
Rispoli discuss the film, it's history and the theme of culture and
Identity. |
| Michael Rispoli |
Raymond del Feliita is the director and Michael Risopi the star of Two
Family House, a 1950's period piece about a hapless man Budddy (Rispoli),
who refuses to stop trying for success. His latest scheme is to rent a
dilapited house and convert half of it into a bar. His Irish tenant, an old
man and a very pregnant young wife have other ideas. Here De Felitta and
Rispoli discuss the film, it's history and the theme of culture and
Identity. |
| Michael Kalesniko |
Canadian born Kalesniko discusses his Gala film How to Kill Your
Neighbour's Dog, starring Kenneth Branagh as the curmudgeonly playwright
Peter McGowan and Robin Wright-Penn as his luminous wife Melanie. Peter,
haunted by his failing success, insomnia and a barking dog, works on his
new play as his wife frets about having children. They befriend the little
girl next door and the growing relationship enriches both their lives.
Here, Kalesniko talks about working with Branagh and Wright-Penn and the
plight of a writer who lives in LA. |
