Toronto Fest Tips Industry Titles
Indiewire.com
August 9, 2006
Organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled another
20 titles that will screen at this year’s festival, highlighting movies that
may be of interest to distributors, exhibitors and insiders, according to
the announcement. World premieres added to the fest’s roster include: Werner
Herzog’s "Rescue Dawn" (US), Margarethe von Trotta’s "I Am The Other Woman"
(Germany), Hal Hartley’s "Fay Grim" (US/Germany), Tarsem Singh’s "The Fall",
Ari Sandel’s "Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show" (US), Alek Keshishian’s
"Love and Other Disasters" (France/UK), Scott Caan’s "The Dog Problem" (US),
Shane Meadows’ "This Is England" (UK), Brad Silberling’s "10 Items Or Less"
(US), Laurent Herbiet’s "Mon Colonel" (France/Algeria/Belgium), and Zabou
Breitman’s "L’Homme De Sa Vie" (France/Italy), Sang-il Lee’s "Hula Girls"
(Japan), John Jeffcoat’s "Outsourced" (US), Larry Fessenden’s "The Last
Winter" (US/Iceland), Alex van Warmerdam’s "Waiter" (The Netherlands).
International premieres tipped as biz-worthy include Agustin Diaz Yanes’
"Alatriste" (Spain), Eytan Fox’s "The Bubble" (Israel), Manuel Pradal’s "Un
Crime" (France), Hirokazu Kore-eda’s "Hana" (Japan), and Ana Kokkinos’ "The
Book of Revelation" (Australia). They join the three previously announced
potenetial acquisition titles: Michael Ian Black’s "The Pleasure of Your
Company", Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s "The Prisoner Or: How I
Planned to Kill Tony Blair" and Pascal Arnold and Jean-Marc Barr’s "Chacun
Sa Nuit." [Eugene Hernandez]