Canadian Cinematographer October 2012 Vol. 4, No.5 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Joan Hutton csc EDITOR EMERITUS Donald Angus EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Susan Saranchuk admin@csc.ca EDITOR
From The PRESIDENT Joan Hutton csc
Fanen Chiahemen editor@csc.ca COPY EDITOR Karen Longland Editorial Intern Kayla-Jane Barrie ART DIRECTION
M
y love affair with the Toronto International Film Festival began from the moment the first film flickered through the projector gates in 1976. I was a student at the time, and TIFF was then called The Festival of Festivals because it collected the best films from festivals around the world.
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It was much more of a folksy event in the ‘70s, but it was every bit as exciting and wondrous as it is today. With my festival book in hand, I’d be running from morning till after midnight attending one movie after another. If the theatre was filled, you just checked the schedule and ran off to the next one. You could still do that back then. I even managed to squeeze in the odd industry session as well. Ultimately, the festival was an incredibly rewarding experience that ran the gamut from mind-expanding to simply being loads of fun.
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While the moniker Festival of Festivals may have been grandiose for a new film fest, it did foreshadow the importance of TIFF and the position it holds in the world of cinema. What started as a local phenomenon grew quickly to North American significance, then to an international tour de force, attracting the best in cinematic delights from around the world. I’ve read that TIFF is only second to Cannes. I would venture to say that they are now on the same level, spoken together in the same breath. TIFF like the Golden Globe Awards has become a harbinger of what to expect at the Academy Awards. TIFF has the eyes of the world watching! For anyone, being the director of photography on a film chosen for TIFF is a feat in itself. I am pleased to report that 17 CSC members were the DOPs on 18 films shown at this year’s festival. Luc Montpellier csc and his film Inescapable was one of the festival’s Gala presentations. The CSC is very proud of all of its members who had films in TIFF and congratulates them on their accomplishment. A full list of CSC members in TIFF can be found in this magazine issue. To all our members, if you have garnered an accolade, have a film in a festival,
or are simply working on an extraordinary project, we want to know about it, so we can tell everyone about it. Please, no modesty, let us know! To everyone, good shooting!
