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Now that the Toronto International Film Festival 2007, is past, a look at some independent films, has won major awards, and immersed in the center of attention and visibility. As usual, there were a lot of movies with Hollywood stars and big budgets attached to them has been great publicity. But there were also some small independent films that manages to win several awards in one of three major film festivals in the world.
TorontoInternational Film Festival for the film industry people in Hollywood as a starting point for the long term, fixed price, just to be with the largest festival of films for the Oscars. Many major studios and independent filmmakers make their movies stars in Toronto at the beginning of the season for advertising in the hope that the Oscar buzz has been created for the film and the star said in disguise.
first film by Sean Penn in The Wild ', aA student film about Chris McCandles the civilized world behind and embarks on a journey through nature leaves the Alaska wilderness by name. There's a man against nature with the history of cinema, narrative and character McCandles Emile Hirsch, and talk in the air at a better price possible interpretation of how this actor.
Cate Blanchett has two films at the Toronto International Film Festival. A film about Elizabeth I and the other about Bob Dylan. Veteranthe festival circuit and was nominated for an Oscar, she and her film studios to do well once again, the value of publicity generated at the start of the film festival.
Tommy Lee Jones is also in two films at the Toronto International Film Festival. This is a film by Joel and Ethan Cohen No Country for Old Men was summoned, in which he plays a sheriff hunting a murderess. This is a thriller based on the face after the novel by Cormac McCarthy. His otherFilm In the Valley of Elah, a film against war on a retired military policeman, whose son is leaving after serving in Iraq with the title. The film was directed by Paul Haggis, who also wrote the screenplay for the recent Academy Award-winning image writing Billion Dollar Baby by Clint Eastwood. Haggis also produced the Best Picture Oscar winner Crash movie.
Although the Toronto International Film Festival is one of the largest film festivals in the world and most publicizedCannes and Sundance Film Festival manages to be friendly, independent filmmakers, small independent film with unique stories and exciting to do.
Chris Chong Chan won the award for best short film in Canada with its swimming pool, a movie about the underestimation increases over the traumatic experiences of life. The main character of this film is a water tank, hence the title. These aspiring young filmmakers have wonthe prize money of $ 10,000 for this independent film.
The prize for best first Canadian film went to a movie called Continental, a film without Rifle Stéphane Lafleur. This film is about the interaction of four people have died after a man lost in a forest. The price of this prize was $ 15,000.
A movie called Space Rodrigo Pius won the Prix de la Critique. This award is presented annually to the festival, an independentThe director whose career is beginning to emerge, the scene of the film.
One of the best things about the Toronto International Film Festival is the fact that allowing public participation in the selection process for the award. And 'one of the few film festivals in the world do this sort of thing. The largest award of its kind is the price the people's choice of Cadillac. This year the prize was awarded to independent film director David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises. This is aA film about a Russian mobster with ties to one of the mafia families in London. Cronenberg is a true independent filmmaker who has had a successful career working outside the traditional industry of Hollywood. His film is unique and strange as The Fly, Dead Ringers and A History of Violence has received numerous awards and earned great things in the world of independent cinema.
While Hollywood stars like Sean Penn, Cate Blanchett and Tommy LeeJones has received much attention in 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, went to smaller independent filmmakers like Chris Chong Chan I was, Stéphane Lafleur and Rodrigo Pius ten days very well in this event. This is true independent filmmakers who made films on subjects that most studios are not willing to invest in the fear of failure. They made the film, the essence of independent cinema and managers to share the podium withdirectors and movie stars.
For players in Hollywood, Toronto is a car that your chances of winning a prize for the largest advertising and the rise of the career of the creator of all, can the Academy Awards. Irreducible for independent filmmakers, is an opportunity to show his film, the public and JumpStart his career as an independent director.
Although many believe that the Toronto International Film Festival offers primarily to the starsUnderstand that sometimes you must do something to make the publicity machine of the media. This is not so bad though, because while the big stars of the main grandstand with particular attention to their looks there is always a small independent filmmaker was on the edge of the scenes in the bathroom the bathroom is enough light to make them happy. There will be a strange mix of celebrities who stayed at the top or the games industry from Hollywood movies and the blackdeserve independent filmmakers, the films of his life, but especially want to say unique, creative and interesting stories.
