’The way [Tiff] grew was a surprise to everyone.’
Recently retired Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) head honcho Piers Handling reflected on the origins of the festival, discussed the impact of 9/11 and Sars, and admitted Green Book‘s audience award win this year “surprised us all”, in a wide-ranging talk at the Los Cabos International Film Festival on Thursday (8).
“That was certainly a huge challenge,” Handling said of the September 11 attacks that occurred several days into the festival’s 2001 iteration. “There’s no training that prepares you for that… We inched our way through the day.”
Handling and his staff cancelled press conferences on the day,...
Recently retired Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) head honcho Piers Handling reflected on the origins of the festival, discussed the impact of 9/11 and Sars, and admitted Green Book‘s audience award win this year “surprised us all”, in a wide-ranging talk at the Los Cabos International Film Festival on Thursday (8).
“That was certainly a huge challenge,” Handling said of the September 11 attacks that occurred several days into the festival’s 2001 iteration. “There’s no training that prepares you for that… We inched our way through the day.”
Handling and his staff cancelled press conferences on the day,...
- 11/9/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
’The way [Tiff] grew was a surprise to everyone.’
Recently retired Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) head honcho Piers Handling reflected on the origins of the festival, discussed the impact of 9/11 and Sars, and admitted Green Book‘s audience award win this year “surprised us all”, in a wide-ranging talk at the Los Cabos International Film Festival on Thursday (8).
“That was certainly a huge challenge,” Handling said of the September 11 attacks that occurred several days into the festival’s 2001 iteration. “There’s no training that prepares you for that… We inched our way through the day.”
Handling and his staff cancelled press conferences on the day,...
Recently retired Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) head honcho Piers Handling reflected on the origins of the festival, discussed the impact of 9/11 and Sars, and admitted Green Book‘s audience award win this year “surprised us all”, in a wide-ranging talk at the Los Cabos International Film Festival on Thursday (8).
“That was certainly a huge challenge,” Handling said of the September 11 attacks that occurred several days into the festival’s 2001 iteration. “There’s no training that prepares you for that… We inched our way through the day.”
Handling and his staff cancelled press conferences on the day,...
- 11/9/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Los Cabos, Mexico — September’s 43rd Toronto Intl. Film Festival was Piers Handling’s 37th and final edition, the director and CEO since 1994 stepping down after the event following 23 years at its helm and an association running back to 1982.
Honored at Mexico’s Los Cabos Festival, Handling reflected in a conversation with Mexican journalist Leonardo García Tsao about the extraordinary evolution of Toronto and the film festival scene at large.
Handling commented at one point during the talk that he will finally get a summer holiday. For how long is another matter. He is already preparing to write a history of film festivals. His comments at Los Cabos indeed already carried the weight of long thought-through reflection. Here are just three points from a highly entertaining one-hour conversation, which took in how the Oscar race has hugely affected fall festivals, the challenges to independent production, what makes a festival click:...
Honored at Mexico’s Los Cabos Festival, Handling reflected in a conversation with Mexican journalist Leonardo García Tsao about the extraordinary evolution of Toronto and the film festival scene at large.
Handling commented at one point during the talk that he will finally get a summer holiday. For how long is another matter. He is already preparing to write a history of film festivals. His comments at Los Cabos indeed already carried the weight of long thought-through reflection. Here are just three points from a highly entertaining one-hour conversation, which took in how the Oscar race has hugely affected fall festivals, the challenges to independent production, what makes a festival click:...
- 11/9/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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