film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theater, cinemas or screening venues, usually annually and in a single city or region. Some film festivals show films outdoors or online.
Films may be of recent ...
in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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, Canada, which presents a weeklong program of both Canadian and international
French language
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films.
History
The festival was established in 1997 by Marcelle Lean, a former chair of the Ontario Film Development Corporation, and was staged for the first time in February 1998."Festival opens a door to French film". ''
The Globe and Mail
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'', February 27, 1998. Lean remained the event's executive director as of 2015.
Unlike larger events such as the
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organi ...
, all films throughout the week were screened in a single theatre venue."Bringing more than l'amour to the English". ''
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'', March 26, 2010. To establish broader audience appeal beyond the city's francophone community alone, all films were screened with
English language
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subtitles.
Separately from the main festival, an annual youth program of films for children and teenagers is also staged each year. The separate youth program was launched for the first time in 2007.
The festival presented an annual award, the
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Audience Award, to the film voted by festival attendees as the best film in that year's program.
TFO
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also formerly sponsored an award for the most popular film in the youth program.
In 2015, Lean told '' L'Express de Toronto'' that the festival was in financial trouble and may be forced to cease operations if it could not renegotiate its operational support and sponsorship agreements."Cinéfranco pourrait disparaître" '' L'Express de Toronto'', June 9, 2015. The main festival was initially cancelled in 2016,"Cinefranco makes a belated return..." ''
Now
Now most commonly refers
to the present time.
Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to:
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* National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization
* Na ...
Now
Now most commonly refers
to the present time.
Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to:
Organizations
* Natal Organisation of Women, a South African women's organization
* National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization
* Na ...
'', October 27, 2016. instead,
Tournée Québec Cinéma
The Tournée Québec Cinéma is an annual touring film festival, organized by Québec Cinéma to promote and distribute French language films from Quebec in cities in English Canada where such films would not ordinarily receive theatrical distribut ...
, a program of
Québec Cinéma
Québec Cinéma is a Canadian organization based in Quebec, whose mission is to promote and develop the Cinema of Quebec.
The organization's programs include the Prix Iris, the annual film awards for Quebec films; the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, ...
which presents a touring minifestival of Quebec films in various locations across Canada, added an event in Toronto to its schedule. The event was later revived, however, with a smaller-scale Cinéfranco presented in October 2016 at the Alliance Française de Toronto.
Audience Award
* 2009: ''
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Cédric Klapisch
Cédric Klapisch ( ; born 4 September 1961) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.
Life and career
Klapisch was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were
deported to ...
Jean-Paul Salomé
Jean-Paul Salomé (; born 14 September 1960) is a French director and screenwriter.
Filmography
References
External links
*
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1960 births
Living people
Film directors from Paris
French male screenw ...
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(Les Hommes libres)'',
Ismaël Ferroukhi
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and
Alexandre de La Patellière Alexandre may refer to:
* Alexandre (given name)
* Alexandre (surname)
* Alexandre (film)
See also
* Alexander
* Alexandra (disambiguation)
* Xano (disambiguation), a Portuguese hypocoristic of the name "Alexandre"
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Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar (born 26 January 1963) is a French film director, producer and screenwriter. She is most noted for her 2016 film '' Heaven Will Wait (Le Ciel attendra)'', for which she was a nominee for the Lumière Award for Best Sc ...
* 2016-2017: ''no award presented''
* 2018: ''
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Ricardo Trogi
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Career
Trogi was born in Quebec City, Quebec. He began his filmmaking career as a contestant in the 1994-95 edition of ''La Course destination monde'', ty ...
TFO Prize for Best Youth Film
*2009: ''
The Necessities of Life
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'' (''Ce qu'il faut pour vivre''),
Benoît Pilon
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*2010: ''
Little Nicholas
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'' (''Le Petit Nicolas''),
Laurent Tirard
Laurent Tirard (18 February 1967 – 5 September 2024) was a French film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Laurent Tirard was born on 18 February 1967 in Roubaix, France. He grew up admiring American films, such as those by Steven Spie ...
*2011: ''
Trouble at Timpetill
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The film won the TFO Prize for Best Youth Film at the 2011 edition of the Cinéfra ...
'' (''Les Enfants de Timpelbach''),
Nicolas Bary
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Mononym
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Surname Nicolas
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