TIFF taps programmers
Hays, Mullen set for Toronto gigs
Ingrid Betancourt invited to be guest of honor
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Toronto festival expands its services
Sales and industry office pacts with Cinando
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Roth, Breslin head for Giffoni
Meg Ryan also to attend film festival
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'Ocean Flame' to open Summer IFF
Event spins off Hong Kong Film Festival
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Steven Gaydos gets Karlovy honor
Editor recognized for 11 years of contributions
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Hays, who has written on film for the weekly Montreal Mirror since 1993 and on popular culture and politics for a broad range of dailies and periodicals, teaches film studies at Concordia U and is the author of "The View From Here: Conversations With Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers."He joins associate director of Canadian programming Steve Gravestock and Jesse Wente. Canadian features are now slotted throughout TIFF's array of programming windows rather than having their own separate category.
Mullen has programmed for the Provincetown Film Festival, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Film Program and the Vancouver Film Festival. She was the director of programming at Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival from 2000-05.
The Toronto Film Festival runs Sept. 4-13.
The Los Angeles Film Festival has been able to corral major studio pics to anchor a 10-day program dedicated to new American and foreign indie films.
The name still has an ungainly ring to it, but the Festival Paris Cinema recently underwent a successful makeover.
Central Euro film boards use presence at festivals to strike deals and raise profiles.
The lives of a foreman, a doctor and a high school prof touch tangentially during the frantic run-up to Chinese New Year in "The End of Year," a wry multicharacter ensembler that builds into an involving, very human portrait of everyday life in contempo Beijing.
End of the Rainbow
Memorial Day
Finally, Lillian and Dan
