Articles Tagged ‘Toronto International Film Festival’
Mixing the real and the surreal in “The Act of Killing”
FILMIn time for its presentation as the Copenhangen International Documentary Film Festival’s opening film, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer (pictured) tells realscreen about his “observational documentary of the imagination.”
TIFF 2012: The documentary wrap
FILM / PEOPLE NEWSWith the 37th annual Toronto International Film Festival now behind us, realscreen offers a wrap-up of all of the key documentary news from the event’s 11 days, from the red carpets and parties, to the directors and the deal-making.
TIFF ’12: “Artifact” picks up People’s Choice Doc Award
FILMArtifact (pictured), a documentary following actor Jared Leto and his rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, has picked up the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
TIFF ’12: HBO buys U.S. TV rights for “Love, Marilyn”
FILM / TVHBO Documentary Films completed its second deal at the Toronto International Film Festival, acquiring U.S. TV rights to Liz Garbus’s hit TIFF doc Love, Marilyn (pictured).
TIFF ’12: From 30 Seconds LP to $30m lawsuit
FILMActor and rocker Jared Leto (pictured) tells realscreen how a US$30 million lawsuit turned what was supposed to be a ‘making of’ about his band 30 Seconds to Mars’s third album into Artifact, a feature documentary about the decline of the music industry.
TIFF ’12: Magnolia picks up “No Place on Earth”
FILMNo Place on Earth (pictured), a documentary about a group of Ukrainian Jews who survived World War Two by hiding in caves for 18 months, will get a theatrical run in the U.S. in 2013 via distributor Magnolia Pictures.
TIFF ’12: Tribeca Film picks up “How to Make Money”
DIGITAL / FILMTribeca Film has acquired the U.S. rights to Matthew Cooke’s doc How to Make Money Selling Drugs (pictured), which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last week.
TIFF ’12: Gibney on truth and justice in “Mea Maxima Culpa”
FILMAcademy Award-winning doc director Alex Gibney (pictured) returns to the Toronto International Film Festival this year, with a film telling the story of a group of deaf men who launched one of the first clerical sex abuse protests in the U.S.
TIFF ’12: Int’l deals inked for Mettler’s “End of Time”
FILMSwiss-Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler’s documentary The End of Time (pictured) has been picked up by First Run Features for U.S. distribution, with deals also penned with distributors in Poland and Australia.
TIFF ’12: HBO picks up “Casting By”
FILM / TVHBO Documentary Films has acquired the U.S. TV rights to Tom Donahue’s feature documentary Casting By (pictured), which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this week.
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Realscreen Summit 2013 - 495 Productions\' Sallyann Salsano speaks at the Monsters of Factual session