On the heels of the city of Toronto cancelling events through June 30, the TIFF Bell Lighbox continues its shutdown through Canada Day on July 1.
The video update above from TIFF co-heads — Executive Director Joana Vicente and Artistic Director Cameron Bailey — goes into planning preparation for what would be TIFF 2020. While so much is unknown thanks to the COVID-19 coronavirus, creative solutions are high on anyone's priority. That will likely include some online events, no matter what the world looks like in early September.
There is the question about Canadian films that were scheduled to debut at TIFF in the recent weeks. Stay tuned for some solution involving those new Canadian films, hopefully.
TIFF's Stay-at-Home Cinema is doing online talks before showing films on Crave in Canada. That included a talk with Sarah Polley on Wednesday before Crave streamed Away From Her.
COVID-19 forces TIFF Bell Lightbox to close for a month, cancel Canadian Screen Awards
The Bell Lightbox has been closed since 5 pm on March 14.
Toronto is such a vibrant city during special occasions such as Pride and TIFF. We may return to that notion at some point.
CBC is showing Canadian films to fill time on Hockey Night in Canada
2019 WIFF Canadian films in review: Documentaries
2019 WIFF Canadian films in review
Pipe Dreams, which we saw last November at the Windsor International Film Festival, draws the April 8 primetime slot on CBC television in lieu of the Stanley Cup playoffs that normally would have started that night. The pace of the documentary is a far cry from the pace of the normal checking and cross-checking action.
We ran the schedule for Saturday nights a few weeks back. There is one substitution on April 11: Window Horses will be in the late slot instead of Dr. Cabbie. Window Horses is a really great film, an animated film most of the family can enjoy (a brief theme of death might be the only concern).
Most Stanley Cup playoff evenings will have special programming. Made You Look: A True Story of Fake Art is a documentary that will air April 16.
We will track Canadian films on Saturday nights as we get more information. The films should also be available on CBC Gem in Canada.
Tom Power, whose show Q has disappeared in the short-term, has been contributing to The Current with Matt Galloway. Power has taken some of that Q magic to a new TV show called What're You At? on CBC television. The show looks to have elements from Q, including an interview with Daniel Levy (Schitt’s Creek) in the show's debut tomorrow night. The show runs Sunday nights at 8 pm local time and also is available on CBC Gem.
CanadianCrossing.com film coverage
CanadianCrossing.com CBC coverage
Johanna Schneller weighed in on the state of Canadian film with all the cancellations and postponements thanks to the COVID-19 coronavirus. Schneller writes for The Globe and Mail and was the co-host of The Filmmakers on CBC.
The film world, streaming, the Cineworld takeover of Cineplex affecting Canadian films and other films in Canadian theatres, Disney taking over 20th Century Fox pictures: there already was bad news for films and theatres even before the pandemic.
Cannes, TIFF, WIFF, Hot Docs: countless festivals that will either be limited or not have a 2020 next to their name. We will try and cover this world and its many changes, few for the better.
video credit: YouTube/TIFF
photo credit: TIFF
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