2017: TIFF unveils programmes, programmers
Organisers of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have announced its line up of programmes and programmers for this year’s edition, “with a renewed commitment to bold, discerning curation.”
A release emailed to Weekend Magazine which quoted Director and CEO of TIF, Piers Handling, said: “As we look forward to this year’s Festival, we’re finding new ways to select the best of the year for our audiences and enhance the experience for our industry and media delegates.”
This year’s edition will feature the unveiling of 14 diverse programmes and a programming team of 22, including two new additions.
The release also mentioned plans to retire the Vanguard and City to City sections and reduce the overall number of films in the 2017 line up by 20 percent.
According to the release, TIFF’s Artistic Director, Cameron Bailey said: “As we build on the success of the Festival’s past four decades, we’re challenged to balance providing a generous choice of movies for over 400,000 festivalgoers with maintaining strong curatorial focus.
“For 2017 we’re offering a refreshed, more tightly curated edition. In addition to trimming the lineup, we’re excited to introduce two new Festival programmers to the TIFF team.”
Kiva Reardon, a programmer at the Miami Film Festival, the founding editor of ‘Cléo’ journal who has previously worked at the Doha Film Institute in Qatar, the release said, will program Africa and the Middle East.
It said Reardon’s writing, has been published in Hazlitt, The Globe and Mail, Maisonneuve, the National Post, Filmmaker Magazine, and others. For the past two years she worked as the Programming Associate to Cameron Bailey.
Others are Peter Kuplowsky who will program Midnight Madness, taking the reins from veteran programmer Colin Geddes and Jason Anderson and Danis Goulet who will program Short Cuts taking over from Kathleen McInnis who after three years helped to build the Festival’s international shorts selection.