New voices at TIFF

This year's TIFF doc line-up had an interesting twist, with several big names normally associated with other genres screening non-fiction films. Why have these celebs moved towards docs? Thom Powers, TIFF's doc programmer, says it's partially because the immense success of An Inconvenient Truth was a wake-up call 'that documentaries are really now at the center of the culture.'
October 1, 2007

This year's TIFF doc line-up had an interesting twist, with several big names normally associated with other genres screening non-fiction films. Why have these celebs moved towards docs? Thom Powers, TIFF's doc programmer, says it's partially because the immense success of An Inconvenient Truth was a wake-up call 'that documentaries are really now at the center of the culture.'

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