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TIFF ’15: Producers pull Aretha Franklin doc from fest
The Toronto International Film Festival has cancelled screenings of a documentary about Aretha Franklin's 1972 album Amazing Grace in the wake of a legal dispute between the Queen of Soul and the...
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TIFF ’15: Cinephil takes global rights to “The Hard Stop”
The Tel Aviv-based sales company has acquired George Amponsah's documentary about Londoner Mark Duggan, whose shooting death in 2011 sparked England's worst rioting in decades.Read More
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TIFF ’15: Taking “Guantanamo’s Child” from script to screen
The team behind White Pine Pictures' Guantanamo's Child, including Toronto Star reporter Michelle Shephard, on what it took to finally land an interview with Omar Khadr. Read More
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TIFF ’15: Haar searches for Princess Shaw in “Thru You”
Director Ido Haar discusses his cross-continental music doc that follows Princess Shaw (right), an American singer carving out a career via her YouTube channel, and the Israeli musician, Kutiman...
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TIFF ’15: Guggenheim’s “Malala” finds the girl behind the icon
Director Davis Guggenheim discusses He Named Me Malala, a detailed portrait of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai looking to empower girls worldwide through education. (Pictured, L-R:...
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TIFF ’15: Kapadia kicks off Doc Conference with “Amy” talk
Amy director Asif Kapadia kicked off the TIFF Doc Conference on Wednesday (September 16) with a conversation with documentary programmer Thom Powers on his top-grossing documentary on the late British...
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TIFF ’15: Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis meditate on impact financing
The intersection of impact financing and climate change was discussed at the TIFF Doc Conference on Wednesday (September 16) in a talk by This Changes Everything director Avi Lewis (pictured, left) and...
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TIFF ’15: Kopple captures Sharon Jones’ turbulent year
Forty years after Barbara Kopple debuted the Oscar-winning Harlan County USA at the inaugural edition of TIFF in 1976, the veteran director is in Toronto again with Miss Sharon Jones!, a profile of the...
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TIFF ’15: Marrying documentary with philanthropy
The Documentary Organization of Canada revealed its research findings on the role the philanthropic sector can play in documentary making during the TIFF Doc Conference on September 16. (Pictured:...
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Oscars ’16: 124 feature docs submitted for consideration
Asif Kapadia's Amy (pictured) and Amy Berg's Janis: Little Girl Blue are among the 124 feature-length documentaries submitted for consideration for the 88th Academy Awards.Read More
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TIFF to showcase virtual reality projects
The Toronto International Film Festival will spotlight virtual reality over three days during this year's event. (Pictured: 6x9: An Immersive Experience of Solitary Confinement)Read More
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Steve James to give keynote talk at TIFF Doc Conference
The Toronto International Film Festival's annual industry conference will also include sessions devoted to the Brexit vote fall-out and equity for women in film.Read More
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Rolling Stones, Justin Timberlake docs to bow at TIFF
The Toronto International Film Festival will host Paul Dugdale's The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America (pictured) as well as Jonathan Demme's JT & the Tennessee Kids. Read More
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Herzog, Morris, James, DiCaprio docs headed to TIFF
This year's TIFF Docs program includes Werner Herzog's volcano doc Into The Inferno and the climate change film The Turning Point (pictured) featuring Leonardo DiCaprio.Read More
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TIFF ’16: “Voyage of Time,”“Fire at Sea” join roster
Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time: Life's Journey (pictured), Gianfranco Rosi's Berlinale winner Fire at Sea and Ulrich Seidl's Safari will screen at the 41st annual Toronto International Film...
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TIFF ’16: Peck, Demme and Bini join Doc Conference
This year's Doc Conference will include a keynote talk on race and history by Raoul Peck, director of I Am Not Your Negro (pictured), as well as conversations with Jonathan Demme and Joe Bini.Read More
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TIFF ’16: “Gringo,”“Terry Kath” join doc roster
Documentaries from Nanette Burstein (pictured, center), Michelle Sinclair (right) and Mohanad Yaqubi (left) are among the films set to have world premieres at the 41st Toronto International Film...
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TIFF ’16: IMAX version of “Voyage of Time” joins line-up
The 45-minute giant-screen version of Terrence Malick's doc debut will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.Read More
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TIFF ’16: Doc trailer round-up, part two
Realscreen presents the second installment of our TIFF trailer round-up, featuring Paul Dugdale's The Rolling Stones Ole Ole Ole!, Alanis Obomsawin's We Can't Make The Same Mistake Twice and Ulrich...
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TIFF ’16: Steve James heads to court in “ABACUS”
The Life Itself director talks to realscreen ahead of the world premiere of his 'Frontline'-backed doc on a Chinese community bank ensnared in the fallout from the 2008 financial crisis.Read More
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