The competition acts as a platform for artistic interface and trade of ideas among unbiased filmmakers and the global target audience. Festival goers have their personal share of a laugh with everything from Canadian and World film Premiers to shut gatherings and night time-lengthy parties. The pageant opens with a filmmaker reception and concludes with the Closing Awards Ceremony honoring the superb work via a number of ultra-modern first rate and maximum innovative artists.
Each yr, awards are given in all most important categories for top films, filmmakers, writers and actors. The coveted Grand Jury Award is presented to the quality movement photo in the competition decided on from among all of the collaborating movies.
Apart from the jury awards, the competition also gives out an annual Audience Award to the movie with the highest score as determined by means of the competition target audience.
Cash prizes are provided for the Grand Jury Prize, awarded to the satisfactory movie inside the opposition amongst all classes. The pinnacle three prize winners of the Screenplay Competition additionally receive handsome cash prizes.
This yr on the Canadian International Film Festival 2012, there are some of awards that have been provided in various classes. Grand Jury Award, Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short, Best of Canada, Best Foreign Feature, Best Foreign Short, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Short Film, Best Student Film, Best Experimental Film, Best Animation, Best Music Video, Best Environmental Film, Best Humanitarian Film, Best Comedy, Best Family Film, Best Television Pilot and Best "Made on Mobile" are the diverse categories in this yr's festival.
Toronto Film Festival - Full listing of winners 2012
This yr's Toronto International Film Festival, the thirty seventh of its kind, awards had been given to a number of films of various tastes. With a spread of awards at stake, Festival highlights together with "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Seven Psychopaths" took home eleven awards in a rite that happened on the Intercontinental Hotel in Toronto. The complete listing of winners is beneath:
Best Canadian Short Film: The award turned into provided to Deco Dawson for "Keep a Modest Head". The jury created from journalist and writer Matthew Hays, journalist Katrina Onstad and filmmaker Reginald Harkema. The film become selected over the others because the film "expands the limits of documentary and perfectly reflects its surreal challenge". The award become a $10,000 coins prize.
The City of Toronto plus Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film: Xavier Dolan's "Laurence Anyways". The jury constituted of manufacturer and filmmaker Jody Shapiro, CPH PIX Festival Director Jacob Neiiendam, actor and filmmaker Valerie Buhagiar and director, creator and producer Patricia Rozema. The film was chosen "For its breathless cinematic energy and its absolutely new love story, the jury felt honored to observe such unfettered genius at play." The award got here with a coins prize of $30,000.
The SKYY Vodka Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film: This class noticed a tie among Brandon Cronenberg's "Antiviral" and Jason Buxton's "Blackbird". The jury produced from manufacturer and filmmaker Jody Shapiro, CPH PIX Festival Director Jacob Neiiendam, actor and filmmaker Valerie Buhagiar and director, writer and manufacturer Patricia Rozema. The cash prize - which become at the start $15,000 -, become doubled this year and each Brandon and Jason received a coins prize of $15,000 every.
The BlackBerry People's Choice Award: The BlackBerry People's Choice Award turned into decided by using the Festival target audience. This 12 months's award changed into given to David O. Russell for "Silver Linings Playbook". According to Toronto International Film Festival or TIFF, "the film is an severe, loving, emotional and funny circle of relatives story from the director of The Fighter, David O. Russell, wherein Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence locate themselves companions in a secret association to rebuild their broken lives. Robert De Niro yearns to get towards his son (Cooper), as he tries to hold the family afloat along with his compulsive bookmaking."
The award was a $15,000 coins prize and a custom award which become subsidized by means of BlackBerry. The first and second runner-up became Ben Affleck's "Argo" and Eran Riklis' "Zaytoun".
The BlackBerry People's Choice Midnight Madness Award: This award changed into offered to Martin McDonagh for his film "Seven Psychopaths".. The first and 2d runner-up turned into Barry Levinson's "The Bay", and Don Coscarelli's "John Dies on the End".
The BlackBerry People's Choice Documentary Award: The award turned into given to Bartholomew Cubbins for his film "Artifact". The first runners-up were Christopher Nelius and Justin McMillan's "Storm Surfers 3D" and the second one runner-up become "Revolution" by way of Rob Stewart.
NETPAC Award for the Best First or Second Feature World or International Asian Film Premiere: Sion Sono's "The Land of Hope" turned into the recipient of this award. The jury became made from Laurice Guillen (Philippines), Shelly Kraicer (Toronto/Beijing) and Azize Tan (Istanbul). The movie turned into selected for its "diffused, complicated and clever account of the social and political aspects of a country wide trauma that ends in wish and love".
Grolsch Film Works Discovery Award: This inaugural award was offered to Rola Nashef for "Detroit Unleaded".
Top activities at the Canada Film Festival - India in Focus this yr
For the twenty first successive yr, the Toronto International Film Festival gathered an global FIPRESCI jury for the opposition. The jury members consisted of jury president Peter Keough (United States), Jon Asp (Sweden), Ashok Rane (India), Louis-Paul Rioux (Canada), Juan Manuel Dominguez (Argentina) and Brian McKechnie from Canada. The following award winners had been decided by the jury:
The Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) for Special Presentations: this award become supplied to Francois Ozon's "Dans los angeles maison". According to the jury, the movie become presented "for attaining an exquisitely crafted leisure that blurs the distinction among the storyteller and the story advised, and that assuages with playful complexity the tragedies of existence with the consolations of artwork".
Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI) for the Discovery Program: Mikael Marcimain's "Call Girl" became presented this prestigious award by using the FIPRESCI jury. According to them, the film changed into "an intense feel of cinema reminiscent of the American thrillers of the Nineteen Seventies... Achieves a portrait of an obscure global concerning girls's rights and political corruption. Marcimain offers along with his sensitive difficulty with giant ease and craftsmanship".
This year on the thirty seventh version of the Toronto International Film Festival, the target audience got a heavy dose of Indian Cinema at its very exceptional. The films ranged from mainstream Bollywood movies to off-beat cinema made via each famend and upcoming administrators and film-makers. The Indian contingent kicked off the Festival with Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta's film "Midnight Children". This become accompanied by way of famed director Meera Nair's movie "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" and Gauri Shinde's "English Vinglish". The latter is the story about the conflict and problems faced with the aid of an Indian center-aged girl (played via Sridevi), who has no information approximately the English language. Sridevi changed into seen at the silver screen after a gap of just about 15 years. The movie "English Vinglish" additionally marks the debut of famed director R Balki's spouse Gauri Shinde.
Deepa Mehta's "Midnight's Children" is based totally on Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-prevailing novel of the identical name. Salman Rushdie has also written the screenplay for the movie and this was his first stint as a screenplay creator. This multi-starrer film is a fantasy wherein kids born on the point of India's independence from Britain are gifted with ordinary, magical powers.
Another noteworthy Indian movie in this 12 months's line-up become Meera Nair's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist". This film is based totally on Mohsin Hamid's global pleasant-promoting novel and stars Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland and Liev Schreiber.
The Toronto International Film Festival even hosted 10 movies from Mumbai as part of its City-to-City initiative. Some of the films had been Vasan Bala's "Peddlers", Hansal Mehta's "Shahid", Dibakar Banerjee's "Shanghai" and Habib Faisal's "Ishaqzaade".
There were several award winners from India on this 12 months's edition of TIFF. Koushik K.R.'s "An Human", Rohit Gupta's "Life! Camera Action... " and "The View" via Tanveer Goyal acquired the 2012 Golden Reel Award at this 12 months's Toronto International Film Festival.
Manan Singh Katohora acquired the 2012 Rising Star Award for his movie "9 Eleven". "nine Eleven", a Bollywood-styled mystery also gained the first-class narrative award on the 2012 Third World Independent Film Festival (TWIFF). Written and directed by means of Katohora, the film rapid-paced mystery with undertones of terrorism and questions that truth as to how will one continue to exist in meeting the growing phenomenon of terrorism face-to-face. "9 Eleven", which had in advance gained the Best Feature Film and Best Director awards on the 2012 World Music & Independent Film Festival (WMIFF) in Washington, is scheduled for a West coast top-rated on September 22nd.
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