2006 Toronto International Film Festival

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2006 Toronto International Film Festival
2006 Toronto International Film Festival poster.jpg
Festival poster
Opening filmThe Journals of Knud Rasmussen
Closing filmAmazing Grace[1]
LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted byToronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films352 films
Festival dateSeptember 7, 2006 (2006-09-07)–September 16, 2006 (2006-09-16)
LanguageEnglish
Websitetiff.net

The 31st Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 7 to September 16, 2006. Opening the festival was Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn's The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, a film that "explores the history of the Inuit people through the eyes of a father and daughter."[2][3][4][5][6]

In a press release dated June 27, 2006, twenty-six international film selections were announced which previously premiered at major film festivals worldwide. Of the films announced, twenty-five of them will receive their North American premiere.[7]

Among the many anticipated films were Babel by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Volver by Pedro Almodóvar, Election 2 (a.k.a. Triad Election) by Johnnie To, The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky and The Host by Bong Joon-ho.

Bella took top prize at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival by winning the highly coveted "People's Choice Award", a distinction which puts them in the company of such Oscar-winning films as Chariots of Fire, American Beauty, Life Is Beautiful, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hotel Rwanda. Last year's winner of the "People's Choice" Award, Tsotsi, won an Oscar for best foreign-language film.

Bella marks the feature directorial debut for Alejandro Monteverde, who also co-wrote its original screenplay with Patrick Million. Bella features Manuel Perez, Angélica Aragón, Jaime Terelli and Ali Landry. Bella was produced by Sean Wolfington, Eduardo Verastegui, Leo Severino, Alejandro Monteverde and Denise Pinckley and executive produced by J. Eustace Wolfington, Ana Wolfington and Stephen McEveety. The film was financed by producers Sean Wolfingtonand Eustace Wolfington. McEveety (Braveheart, We Were Soldiers, Passion of the Christ) consulted on the script and signed on as an Executive Producer to help market the movie. Bella is McEveety's first release under his nascent Mpower Films moniker and marks his first feature since ankling Mel Gibson's Icon productions.

Awards[]

Awards presented during the film festival included:[8][9]

  • The People's Choice Award, presented to Alejandro Gomez Monteverde's Bella.
  • The Diesel Discovery Award, presented to Joachim Trier's Reprise.
  • The Fipresci Prize, presented to Gabriel Range's Death of a President.
  • The Citytv Award for Best Canadian First Feature, presented to Noël Mitrani's On the Trail of Igor Rizzi (Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi).
  • The Toronto – City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film, presented to Jennifer Baichwal's documentary Manufactured Landscapes.
  • The Short Cuts Canada Award, presented to Maxime Giroux for his short film Les Jours.
  • The Swarovski Cultural Innovation Award, presented to Özer Kýzýltan's TAKVA - A Man's Fear of God.

Gala Presentations[]

Special Presentations[]

Masters[]

Real to Reel[]

Discovery[]

Visions[]

Contemporary World Cinema[]

Midnight Madness[]

[10]

Vanguard[]

Canada First![]

Short Cuts[]

  • À l’ombre, Simon Lavoie
  • L’Air de rien, Frédérick Pelletier
  • Aruba, Hubert Davis
  • The Broken Hearted, Antoinette Karuna
  • By the Hour,
  • Christ in Wood, Alexander Winfield
  • Cloudbreaker, Adam Garnet Jones
  • Couldn't Be Happier, Jackie May
  • The Days (Les Jours), Maxime Giroux
  • (Les Eaux mortes), Guy Édoin
  • The Double Woman, Carla B. Guttmann
  • Down Payment on a Dead Horse, Jason Britski
  • The Ecstasy Note, Geoffrey Uloth
  • Elizabeth, Deco Dawson
  • The Eyes of Edward James, Rodrigo Gudiño
  • If I See Randy Again Do You Want Me to Hit Him with the Axe?, Vivieno Caldinelli
  • Intolerable, Alison Maclean
  • The Last Bang, Emmanuel Shirinian
  • A Life of Errors, Nicholas Pye and Sheila Pye
  • Love Seat, Kris Elgstrand
  • The Man Who Waited (L’Homme qui attendait), Theodore Ushev
  • Ninth Street Chronicles, Megan Martin
  • Nude Caboose, Guy Maddin
  • Où est Maurice?, Alek Rzeszowski and Matthew Rankin
  • Patterns 2, Jamie Travis
  • Patterns 3, Jamie Travis
  • Plume, Chelsea McMullan
  • Pretty Broken, Cline Mayo
  • The Runner, Robert Delaskie
  • The Saddest Boy in the World, Jamie Travis
  • Saskatchewan Part 3, Brian Stockton
  • Screening, Anthony Green
  • Starlight Tour, Evan Crowe
  • Supposed To, Aleesa Cohene
  • Suspect, Patricia Rozema
  • Tell Me Everything, Brian D. Johnson
  • La Tête haute, Ivan Grbovic
  • The Tragic Story of Nling, Jeffrey St. Jules
  • True Love, Adam Brodie and Dave Derewlany
  • The Wait, Ann Verrall

References[]

  1. ^ "Abolitionist tale closes Toronto film festival". CBC News. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  2. ^ "Toronto International Film Festival 2006 Annual report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-07. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  3. ^ "Toronto International Film Festival 2006: Everything Announced". Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  4. ^ "2006 TIFF Update #1: "Seein' in the Rain"". Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  5. ^ "2006 TIFF Update #2: "First Fruits"". Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  6. ^ "Festival Focus: The 2006 Toronto International Film Festival". Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  7. ^ TIFF.net | Home Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine. Tiffg.ca. Retrieved on 2014-05-22.
  8. ^ "2006 Toronto International Film Festival Winners". Archived from the original on 2013-11-12. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  9. ^ "TIFF 2006: Awards Announced". Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  10. ^ "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2013.

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