The Toronto Movie Competition on Tuesday introduced the primary six titles set to make their world premieres on the forty ninth version, within the Gala and Particular Presentation program, additionally naming this 12 months’s TIFF Tribute Award recipients.
Movies chosen to this point embrace R.J. Cutler and David Furnish’s Disney+ doc Elton John: By no means Too Late, Woo Min-ho’s Harbin, Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation The Lifetime of Chuck, Marielle Heller’s Amy Adams-led darkish comedy Nightbitch, Netflix’s Indigenous coming-of-age basketball movie Rez Ball from Sydney Freeland, and DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robotic.
“We all know the TIFF viewers has been eagerly anticipating what movies will probably be coming to Toronto this September, and right now’s announcement is a snapshot of what’s to come back this 12 months: a splendidly wide selection of titles that span genres and generations, with discoveries for everybody,” stated the pageant’s Chief Programming Officer, Anita Lee. “TIFF is famend for locating and showcasing works from each rising and established filmmakers from all around the globe, and for creating an unmatched groundswell of pleasure, usually paving the way in which for awards season, due to the a whole lot of 1000’s of trade delegates and public filmgoers that attend annually. As we method our fiftieth Competition, we’re proud to evolve and increase our choices to fulfill the wants of the trade and our audiences whereas at all times remaining true to what TIFF stands for — reworking the way in which folks see the world via movie.”
At this years TIFF Tribute Awards Gala, happening on September 8 at Fairmont Royal York Lodge, Amy Adams will obtain the TIFF Tribute Performer Award, with The Shrouds filmmaker David Cronenberg accepting the Norman Jewison Profession Achievement Award. Sandra Oh will function the inaugural Tribute Awards Honorary Chair.
Stated TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey of the Gala, serving as TIFF’s largest annual fundraiser, “Within the 5 years that TIFF has been honouring such standout expertise as Joaquin Phoenix, Michelle Yeoh, Jessica Chastain, Chloe Zhao, Taika Waititi, and Ari Wegner on their highway to additional awards success, we’ve been impressed to observe our Tribute Awards gala develop right into a must-attend occasion. This 12 months, we’re thrilled to welcome the incomparable Sandra Oh because the inaugural honorary Chair of the 2024 Tribute Awards. She joins our first-announced honourees, Amy Adams and David Cronenberg, in what guarantees to be one other singular, glowing evening in the course of the Competition. We’re grateful that artists of this stature will collect in Toronto to assist TIFF flip the highlight on growing inclusion all through our trade.”
Acknowledged Oh, “Returning to TIFF looks like coming residence and I’m excited to function Honorary Chair for this 12 months’s Tribute Awards. Elevating funds and consciousness for illustration and nice storytelling is a ardour of mine and why I’m so proud that the proceeds will go on to Each Story Fund. Their mission to empower numerous voices aligns completely with my very own, and I’m thrilled to be part of this.”
Happening from September 5–15, the 2024 Toronto Movie Competition will characteristic not solely screenings, however different distinctive in-person alternatives as effectively, together with reside post-screening Q&As, the In Dialog With… sequence, a five-day trade convention, and Competition Avenue, which returns for opening weekend alongside King Avenue West, from Peter Avenue to College Avenue, celebrating all issues movie. The free, family-friendly road pageant will happen September 5–8, and can characteristic reside performances, accomplice activations, and outside screenings.
Extra particulars with regard to this 12 months’s pageant will probably be introduced within the coming weeks, with the total schedule being launched on August 13.
