2005 Toronto International Film Festival

2005 Toronto International Film Festival
Festival poster
Opening filmWater[1]
Closing filmEdison
LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted byToronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films335 films
Festival dateSeptember 8, 2005 (2005-09-08)–September 17, 2005 (2005-09-17)
LanguageEnglish
Websitetiff.net

The 30th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 8–17 and screened 335 films from 52 countries - 109 of these films were world premieres, and 78 were North American premieres.[2][3][4][5][6]

Awards

At the Festival's closing event, the following prizes were awarded:[7]

Because the vote for the People's Choice Award was so close, at the awards ceremony Piers Handling (festival co-director) announced four runners-up.[8] However, in the subsequent reporting there was confusion about the order of the runners-up. As reported by ScreenDaily, the results of the People's Choice Award voting was as follows:[9]

Certain other publications indicated (probably erroneously) that the order of the runners-up was reversed, with Mother of Mine finishing second to Tsotsi.[10][11][12]

Screenings

Canada First

Canadian Open Vault

Canadian Retrospective

Featuring Don Owen

Contemporary World Cinema

Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

Discovery

Masters

Mavericks

Midnight Madness

[13]

Real To Reel

Short Cuts Canada

Special Presentations

Viacom Galas

Visions

Wavelengths

Canada's Top Ten

In December, TIFF released its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the films programmers had selected as the ten best Canadian films of the year.[14] These were screened as a followup "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in early 2006, with public screenings in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver.

References

  1. ^ "TIFF: A history of opening nights". CBC News. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  2. ^ "2005 Toronto International Film Festival Annual report" (PDF). Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  3. ^ "335 Films On Tap for 2005 Toronto International Film Festival". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  4. ^ "Complete List of Toronto International Film Festival Films". Archived from the original on June 10, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  5. ^ "More films line up for Toronto competition". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  6. ^ "2005 Toronto International Film Festival Wrap-up - 36 Films". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  7. ^ "International and Canadian Films Honoured at Closing Awards Event" (Press release). Toronto International Film Festival Group. 2005-09-17. Archived from the original on 2006-07-10. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  8. ^ Bruce Kirkland (2005-09-18). "'Tsotsi' wins TIFF's People's Choice Award". Toronto Sun. Jam! Showbiz. Archived from the original on January 15, 2015. Retrieved 2015-01-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  9. ^ Mike Goodridge (2005-09-18). "Tsotsi, Look Both Ways win top prizes at Toronto". ScreenDaily. Screen International. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  10. ^ Garth Franklin (2005-09-19). "Toronto 2005 Winners Announced". Dark Horizons. Archived from the original on 2015-01-09. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  11. ^ "Toronto Film Festival honors 'Tsotsi'". The New York Times. 2005-09-19. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  12. ^ "Aussie film wins top Toronto award". The Sydney Morning Herald. Reuters. 2005-09-18. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  13. ^ "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  14. ^ "Topping the list: Canada's cinematic achievements". National Post, December 14, 2005.
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