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2000 Toronto International Film Festival

2000 Toronto International Film Festival

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The 2000 Toronto International Film Festival, the 25th annual festival, ran from September 7 to September 16, 2000. Along with special events to commemorate the anniversary, there were a total of 330 films screened. There was a special screening of Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky featuring musical accompaniment by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Also, 25 digital video shorts were made by attending filmmakers.[2][3][4]

Quick Facts Opening film, Location ...

Awards

More information Film, Director ...

Programmes

Gala Presentations

Special Presentations

Masters

Perspective Canada

Contemporary World Cinema

Discovery

Planet Africa

Real to Reel

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

25th Anniversary Special Events

The Bloomberg Tribute to Stephen Frears

Year 1

Beckett on Film

Preludes

Preludes was a special one-off program of ten short films by Canadian film directors, commissioned by TIFF to celebrate its 25th anniversary.[9] The Preludes films were also subsequently screened on the web separately from their screenings at TIFF, on a platform funded by Bell Canada.[10]

Spotlight: Robert Beavers

Canadian Open Vault

Midnight Madness

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References

  1. "2000 TIFF Festival Daily Update #1: "The Fall Through Summer's Back Door: An Overview of the 2000 TIFF"". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  2. "2000 Awards" (Press release). Toronto International Film Festival. 2000-09-17. Archived from the original on 2001-05-28. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
  3. "Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 11, 2013.
  4. Tamsen Tillson (2000-09-18). "'Tiger' takes Toronto aud kudos". Variety. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
  5. Marc Glassman, "Preludes". Take One, Vol. 30 (Winter 2001). pp. 43-44.
  6. Peter Howell, "Downstreaming without a paddle; Fest shorts on the Web ain't nothing like the real thing". Toronto Star, November 15, 2000.

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