Consider that last year’s event barely happened. TIFF 2020 pivoted mightily, delivering a bare-bones 50-film line-up and showing most of those through a new digital streaming platform, in addition to a handful of outdoor, drive-in and Lightbox screenings.
“I think if this year has taught us anything it’s that nobody can predict normal,” says festival artistic director and co-head Cameron Bailey. “We started this year not being sure what the festival would be looking like by September, but thinking that we might still be under lockdown and we might have to prepare for that. We had success with our digital platform last year. We know we can do drive-ins now; that was a brand new thing for us last year.
“We believe that digital is a great tool to be more accessible to audiences across Canada, to people who cannot make it to festival,” says Joana Vicente, the festival’s executive director and co-head. “We hope that it doesn’t replace the in-person experience, but it allows us to reach more people.”Article content
Some of this year’s offerings are tailor-made for the big screen, in some cases the biggest screen possible. Canadian director Denis Villeneuve, who has been vocal in his disappointment over the decision by Warner Bros. to release its 2021 slate on the HBO Max streaming service as well as theatres, will bring his new movieto the city’s Cinesphere, with a simultaneous satellite screening at Montreal’s Cinéma Banque Scotia.
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