For my first day of film viewing I checked out George A. Romero‘s Survival of the Dead, as well as a presentation called Origins of Factum. Survival of the Dead is, of course, the latest zombie film my Romero and loose follow-up to Diary of the Dead. The film centers around two feuding families on…
My shift started off with my first position inside the theatre. The screening was for the Canadian film A Gun to the Head, which I thought was decent enough that I didn’t mind standing through it. However, my busiest position today was manning the P&I screening for the film Lebanon, fresh from winning the Golden…
In what ended up being my longest shift in the history of my time volunteering for the festival, today I ended up changing locations halfway through my shift, from Varsity to Ryerson, to help out with the craziness happening at the screening for Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air. The screening had a big red…
Last year, I really thought I finished on a high note as a normal volunteer and I was ready to move up and become a captain. Sadly those captain ambitions never turned out and I was back in the peon role for my fourth year as a volunteer. It is probably fitting that this ended…
The 2009 Toronto International Film Festival began last night, however it begins for me this afternoon as I begin my first volunteer shift. From now until the 20th, it will be 100% TIFF coverage for me. This coverage will begin with my first volunteer log, which I will post this evening.
The Toronto International Film Festival begins on Thursday and I am taking a break for a few days before I officially go headfirst into the coverage. The coverage will begin on Thursday.
I changed things around for the first day of single ticket sales by heading to the box office bright and early in the morning. It was a good thing too, since I ended up waiting in the line from around 9:45 until just after 1:30. The long wait was worth it though, since I managed…
Tomorrow is the day single tickets go on sale for TIFF. Unlike previous years when they went on sale the day before the start of the festival, they are now on sale nearly a week before the festival. This may pose a problem later in the festival, since films will now go offsale sooner. However,…
The schedule for TIFF was posted yesterday and now I have the daunting task of seeing what films I can fit into my busy week. I already had to eliminate a few of my top film picks, since the screenings conflicted with either my volunteer shifts or my school schedule. However, I’m sure that after…
If I’m hard-pressed to find a film to see at TIFF, I always look towards the Special Presentations, since these films are already set for release and they are usually only at TIFF for their premiere. There have been many great special presentations announced over the last few weeks and I thought I would mention…
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