I hope 30 years later that we have kept the spirit of the founders, kept to the tone of what they set out to accomplish.
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American Beauty' really reinforced in Hollywood's eyes the idea that Toronto could actually break a film that was very important. They came here and gathered acclaim and critical support that lasted through the Oscars. Subsequent to that, virtually every year, we've had a significant number of films here that later came out with nominations and Oscars.Piers Handling
I like the fact that we're running so many good films from around the world and the size of it gives us the opportunity to do that, to run both the big-budget films as well as the young, first-time filmmakers, the discovery films,
Piers Handling
We've been through some pretty major crises over the last little while. Air strikes and postal strikes, projectionists' strikes, we went through 911 in the middle of our festival. I think we'll roll with the punches.
Piers Handling
Business was brisk for a large number of titles, with distribution deals worldwide coming from most of our world premiere participants.
Piers Handling
French films are increasingly taking pride of place. The number of French films at the Festival is second only to the US and Canada.
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