![]() ![]() “The strong representation of women, Black people, Indigenous people, and people of colour among TIFF’s selection reflects the organization’s continuing commitment to normalizing gender parity and racial equality for future generations,” the festival said in its press release. ![]() Additional special presentations and events will be announced in August. ![]() It’s a nifty way of turning a limitation into a novelty: COVID may have forced TIFF to stream its programming to audiences watching from home, but that means it’s possible to offer them a six-hour experience that can be paused and restarted at their convenience.Īnd A Suitable Boy isn’t the only television programming playing TIFF 2020: at least some portion of The Third Day, an HBO anthology series that stars Jude Law and Naomie Harris, will premiere at the festival in advance of its September 14 bow on Crave, and CBC is launching Michelle Latimer’s much-anticipated Trickster, an adaptation of author Eden Robinson’s Indigenous supernatural trilogy starring newcomer Joel Oullette, at TIFF.Īs of today’s announcement, 46% of the films announced for TIFF 2020 are directed or co-directed by women. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the feature film lineup for this year’s edition today – and made history by announcing Mira Nair’s BBC adaptation of A Suitable Boy as the closing-night presentation of TIFF 2020.Ĭurrently airing on consecutive Sundays in the United Kingdom, Nair’s six-part production – written by Andrew Davies and featuring an all-Asian cast that includes Ishaan Khatter (Dhadak), Tabu (The Namesake, Life of Pi) and Tanya Maniktala – will be the first miniseries to close the festival. ![]()
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