Toronto -- Piers Handling, Director & CEO of TIFF, tonight announced special programming taking place during the 2015 summer and fall seasons in celebration of the organization's 40th anniversary. The announcements were made at a free community party held in David Pecaut Square in downtown Toronto, prior to this season's first TIFF in the Park event, a screening of the 1992 Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award-winner Strictly Ballroom.
"The free programming we're offering will revisit and commemorate TIFF's history, and allow us to thank our audiences for their dedication and support over the last four decades," said Handling. "This is a milestone year for the organization. Not only are we looking back and celebrating 40 years of bringing the world to Toronto, but we're looking ahead to the next 40 years, with a FOCUS on taking our programming to cultural centres around the world." TIFF in the Park: TIFF 40 and the new TIFF in Your Park programme - a series of free pop-up screenings throughout the GTA all summer long, in partnership with Park People and local community partners - mark the first of 40 free public screenings. All of the films featured at both TIFF in the Park and TIFF in Your Park are highlights from TIFF's programming over the last 40 years. Other free films include TIFF 40: Your Favourites, a dozen crowd-sourced films screening during the fall season at TIFF Bell Lightbox on Tuesday evenings between October 6 and December 8 (the public can vote online at tiff.net/yourfavourites, now through August 8, for a film from TIFF's history that they'd most like to see again); seven restorations of past Festival and TIFF Cinematheque films from the organization's 40-year history, screened in the TIFF Cinematheque programme at the Festival; and a free screening of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo with a live performance of Bernard Herrmann's brilliant film score by members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, to take place on September 20 at Roy Thomson Hall, the final day of the Festival.TIFF 40: Your Favourites - Voting open now until August 8 at tiff.net/yourfavourites.
TIFF in Your Park - July 3 to September 25 at venues across the GTA. More information available at tiff.net/tiffinyourpark
TIFF in the Park: TIFF 40 - July 8 to September 2 at David Pecaut Square. More information available at tiff.net/tiffinthepark
In Love With The Stars - September 8, 2015 to April 3, 2016 at TIFF Bell Lightbox
TIFF Cinematheque - September 10 to 20 at the Toronto International Film Festival
Vertigo with live score, co-presented with the TSO - September 20 at Roy Thomson Hall
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world, through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.
Pictured: Piers Handling, Director and CEO of TIFF; Lisa de Wilde, Chair, TIFF Board of Directors; Henk Van der Kolk, Co-Founder, TIFF; Bill Marshall, Founder, TIFF. Credit: Courtesy of TIFF.
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