Announcing the recipient of the #TIFF20 Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film presented by @CanadaGoose: Michelle Latimer’s INCONVENIENT INDIAN pic.twitter.com/VJoCMCsDiw
— TIFF (@TIFF_NET) September 20, 2020
The 2020 Toronto International Film Festival had some drive-in film journeys, a few IRL screenings, and mostly a streaming experience.
Beans from Tracey Deer finished 2nd runner up for the People's Choice Award. Inconvenient Indian from Michelle Latimer won the Documentary Award and Best Canadian Feature Film. The last documentary to win Best Canadian Feature Film was When Jews Were Funny (2013).
The sad news is that there is no award given for Best Canadian First Feature Film, an award that had been handed out since 1997. There weren't enough films to have this be a category in 2020.
Latimer's new TV show got a sneak preview. Trickster airs on CBC and CBC Gem early next month.
Your #TIFF20 People’s Choice Award runners-up 👇
— TIFF (@TIFF_NET) September 20, 2020
1st runner-up: @ReginaKing’s ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI...
2nd runner-up: @TraceyDeer’s BEANS pic.twitter.com/fdLQEMcBS5
Tracey Deer was honoured with the TIFF Emerging Talent Award at the TIFF Tribute Awards that aired in Canada on CTV. Variety streamed the awards internationally.
Nomadland from Chloé Zhao won the People's Choice Award. One Night in Miami, the directorial debut from Regina King, was 1st runner up. Beans finished behind those film as 2nd runner up. All 3 directors are female.
Latimer said she would split the $10,000 cash prize for Best Canadian Feature Film/Amplify Voices award evenly between 5 emerging Indigenous artists.
Canadian actor Eli Goree portrays Cassius Clay in One Night in Miami.
2020 TIFF preview
2020 TIFF Canadian film preview
When TIFF concentrated on Canadian films for the opening night film
2020 TIFF Rising Stars
We should know soon which Canadian film will compete for the Best International Feature Film. The Oscars category should be a lot more intriguing this season with limited Hollywood film fare. As we noted earlier, that film choice almost certainly won't come from 2020 TIFF.
In a year of limited film choices, maybe the selection will come from a Canadian co-production.
Antigone was the Best Canadian Feature Film of 2019 and Canada's submission to the Academy Awards.
Canadian film notebook: TIFF offering a digital version of Bell Lightbox
Q with Tom Power does a great job at spotlighting TIFF coverage even in normal times. Power's interview with Tracey Deer is especially poignant.
Power talked with director Charles Officer and writer Motion on heir new film Akilla's Escape. Directors Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt discussed their documentary No Ordinary Man, about trans jazz musician Billy Tipton.
Power also talks with Eli Glasner on his take of the 2020 version of TIFF. Glasner had high praise for Shiva Baby, a Canada co-production.
Q airs on CBC Radio One at 10 am local time and is available in podcast form.
CanadianCrossing.com film reviews
CanadianCrossing.com film coverage
Rising Stars Alumni and #TIFF20 Ambassador @tatianamaslany sent us this lovely message to reminisce about her first TIFF experience and to thank the audiences that keep coming back for more. pic.twitter.com/eGG3h2qz45
— TIFF Industry (@TIFF_Industry) September 11, 2020
Celebrity sightings. Streets filled with tourists. People waiting in line outside hoping to get into a sold-out screening. Those are some of what was missing from the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.
The realisation that digital screenings were limited was intriguing. The limit is quite logical to give the festival prestige. This 2020 version of TIFF was about the films more than the outside factors. A 2019 highlight was Tom Hanks ending up in a random cafe in Toronto. That was definitely missing in Toronto in 2020.
2020 TIFF Rising Stars
TIFF Rising Stars
We profiled the 2020 class of TIFF Rising Stars here. Here is the list from all the years.
2011 Sarah Allen, Katie Boland, Sarah Gadon, Keon Mohajeri
2012 Tatiana Maslany, Connor Jessup, Charlotte Sullivan, Charlie Carrick
2013 Megan Park, Johnathan Sousa, Evelyne Brochu, Cara Gee
2014 Shannon Kook, Sophie Desmarais, Alexandre Landry, Julia Sarah Stone
2015 Deragh Campbell, Stephan James, Aliocha Schneider, Karelle Tremblay
2016 Jared Abrahamson, Grace Glowicki, Mylène Mackay, Sophie Nélisse
2017 Daniel Doheny, Mary Galloway, Théodore Pellerin, Ellen Wong
2018 Devery Jacobs, Lamar Johnson, Michaela Kurimsky, Jess Salgueiro
2019 Kacey Rohl, Mikhail Ahooja, Nahéma Ricci, Shamier Anderson
2020 Madeleine Sims-Fewer
Best Canadian Feature Film
I have added Kanehsatake: 270 Years Of Resistance and Cairo Time to the films I've seen from this list.
Year | Film | Director | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020 | Inconvenient Indian | Michelle Latimer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 | Antigone | Sophie Deraspe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018 | The Fireflies Are Gone | Sebastien Pilote | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017 | Les Affamés | Robin Aubert | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016 | Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves |
Mathieu Denis, Simon Lavoie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015 | Closet Monster | Stephen Dunn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014 | Felix and Meira | Maxime Giroux | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 | When Jews Were Funny | Alan Zweig | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012 | Laurence Anyways | Xavier Dolan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011 | Monsieur Lazhar | Philippe Falardeau | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010 | Incendies | Denis Villeneuve | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009 | Cairo Time | Ruba Nadda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008 | Lost Song | Rodrigue Jean | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007 | My Winnipeg | Guy Maddin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006 | Manufactured Landscapes | Jennifer Baichwal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005 | C.R.A.Z.Y. | Jean-Marc Vallée | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2004 | It's All Gone Pete Tong | Michael Dowse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2003 | Les Invasions Barbares | Denys Arcand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2002 | Spider | David Cronenberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2001 | Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) | Zacharias Kunuk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2000 | Waydowntown | Gary Burns | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1999 | The Five Senses | Jeremy Podeswa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1998 | Nô | Robert Lepage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1997 | The Sweet Hereafter | Atom Egoyan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Hanging Garden | Thom Fitzgerald | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1996 | Long's Day Journey Into The Night | David Wellington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1995 | Live Bait | Bruce Sweeney | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1994 | Exotica | Atom Egoyan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1993 | Kanehsatake: 270 Years Of Resistance | Alanis Obomsawin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1992 | Requiem Pour Un Beau Sans-Coeur | Robert Morin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1991 | The Adjuster | Atom Egoyan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1990 | H | Darrell Wasyk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1989 | Roadkill | Bruce McDonald | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1988 | The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick | Allan Goldstein | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1987 | Family Viewing | Atom Egoyan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1986 | Le Déclin De L'empire Américain | Denys Arcand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1985 | Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga Of Hal C. Banks | Donald Brittain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1984 | La Femme De L'hôtel | Léa Pool | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best Canadian Feature Film (1991-present); Excellence in Canadian Production (1984-1990). |
Best Canadian First Feature Film
I've added Luk' Luk'l and Bang Bang Baby. Would love to find Love, Sex and Eating The Bones. Films are much harder to find in this category. Sad that we don't have a 2020 entry but not enough films to qualify in this category.
Year | Film | Director | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020 | no award given | no award given | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 | The Twentieth Century | Matthew Rankin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018 | Roads in February | Katherine Jerkovic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017 | Luk' Luk'l | Wayne Wapeemukwa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016 | Old Stone | Johnny Ma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015 | Sleeping Giant | Andrew Cividino | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014 | Bang Bang Baby | Jeffrey St. Jules | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 | Asphalt Watches | Shayne Ehman, Seth Scriver | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012 | Antiviral | Brandon Cronenberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blackbird | Jason Buxton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011 | Edwin Boyd | Nathan Morlando | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010 | The High Cost of Living | Deborah Chow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009 | The Wild Hunt | Alexandre Franchi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008 | Before Tomorrow | Marie-Hélène Cousineau | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Madeline Piujuq Ivalu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007 | Un Film Sans Fusil Continental | Stéphane Lafleur | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006 | Sur La Trace D'igor Rizzi | Nöel Mitrani | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005 | The Life And Hard Times Of Guy Terrifico | Louise Archambault, Michael Mabbott | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2004 | La Peau Blanche | Daniel Roby | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2003 | Love, Sex and Eating The Bones | Sudz Sutherland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2002 | Marion Bridge | Wiebke Von Carolsfeld | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2001 | Inertia | Sean Garrity | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2000 | La Moitié Gauche Du Frigo | Philippe Falardeau | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1999 | Just Watch Me: | Catherine Annau | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trudeau and The 70's Generation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1998 | Last Night | Don McKellar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1997 | Cube Vincenzo | Natali | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
As determined by the Toronto International Film Festival. |
You can check out all the award winners. The 46th Toronto International Film Festival will hopefully be relatively normal in September 2021.
Twitter captures: @TIFF_net (x2); @TIFF_Industry
photo credit: Inconvenient Indian filmm
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