Toronto: As part of its commitment to Share Her Journey, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2024 is reportedly celebrating women in cinema throughout March with a spotlight on a diverse lineup of woman-identifying filmmakers.
TIFF 2024 women filmmakers to be celebrated include historical and contemporary in a series of TIFF Cinematheque screenings, Q&As, special events, and New Releases.
In its celebration TIFF 2024 also welcomes special guests Patricia Rozema, Liv McNeil, and Meredith Hama-Brown to TIFF Lightbox.
TIFF’s month-long International Women’s Day celebration is generously supported by the RBC Foundation.
TIFF Cinematheque is honouring Patricia Rozema in a special series, A Certain Slant of Light: The Films of Patricia Rozema.
Rozema’s films have been lauded for their complex, sympathetically rendered characters, often portraits of artists in crisis ― particularly women reckoning with conflicting aspects of their personalities or familial obligations, as in Mouthpiece and Into the Forest.
Her Mouthpiece and Into the Forest reckon with conflicting aspects of their personalities or familial obligations.
Presented in brand new restorations, both White Room and When Night Is Falling Rozema portray artists in crisis.
Robyn Citizen, Director of Programming, Festival and TIFF Cinematheque have curated Rozema series and Rozema would be attending a number of screenings and Q& throughout its run.
Rebel Yell: Girlhood in the 1980s, pays homage to punk girls featuring films such as Lou Adler’s Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains and Marisa Silver’s Old Enough.
Curated by guest curator Alicia Fletcher, this series Ignored initially, were an early call to action as these works today nevertheless burn bright for their frankness and at times depicting deeply troubling issues.
“On March 8, International Women’s Day, TIFF will be showing Carla Gutiérrez’s debut documentary Frida in a limited screening hot off the heels of Sundance and ahead of its Amazon premiere ― an intimate portrait of one of the world’s most celebrated artists; and Tautuktavuk (What We See), a 2023 Canada’s Top Ten film from directors Carol Kunnuk and Lucy Tulugarjuk, an evocative, drawn-from-life tale about two siblings’ attempts to heal and overcome trauma during the pandemic. Meredith Hama-Brown’s debut feature Seagrass, a Canada’s Top Ten film, about an unconventional couples’ therapy retreat that exposes the fractures in a biracial family is also playing, with the filmmaker in attendance for a post-screening Q&A on February 25″, TIFF news release has said.
Curated by Anita Lee, TIFF’s Chief Programming Officer; Robyn Citizen, Director of Programming, Festival and Cinematheque; and Jessica Smith, Producer, TIFF Lightbox Programming and Projects, a new marquee series, Women in Action, an international survey of some of the most culturally significant and influential action films helmed by women being introduced by TIFF, is coming to TIFF Lightbox this summer.
Featuring more than 20 films, inspired by Michelle Yeoh’s 2023 Oscar triumph, this major series will will be accompanied by free public events.
Curated by Anita Lee, TIFF’s Chief Programming Officer; Robyn Citizen, Director of Programming, Festival and Cinematheque; and Jessica Smith, Producer, TIFF Lightbox Programming and Projects. the full lineup and tickets for this series will be available in May.
TIFF’s Share Her Journey campaign has been supporting women including non-binary creators since 2017 in cultivating their skills and networks, developing their projects from ideation to completion,
