TIFF organizers discuss plans for this year's festival
"It's exciting this year to challenge buyers, challenge voters, challenge audiences to have new films to contend," executive director Joana Vicente said of the the lineup for the 2020 edition.
Toronto has so far done well to tackle the spread of the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, but has only begun to fully return to some degree of normalcy after entering stage 3 of its pandemic recovery plan. Bailey: You would have seen the volatility in the release landscape — the calendar, what films were coming out when. Films were moving into next year, or just shifting a few weeks or months down the road. And that was a part of what we were dealing with while looking at films. Eventually that began to settle into place and we knew which films would be available to us. We still got thousands and thousands of submissions in the door.
Do you expect to have any American talent at TIFF, with travel bans and quarantine orders to possibly still be in place in September? Vicente: This year is obviously a different year as the fall festivals are earlier. But I actually feel there's an opportunity for some of the films that will be highlighted at the festival to be part of the awards conversation. That's a role we always played, but sometimes with more obvious titles. It's exciting this year to challenge buyers, challenge voters, challenge audiences to have new films to contend.Ammonite.
You have a long list of TIFF Ambassadors. How will that high profile talent be used this year if they don't attend the festival in person?
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