Hey there, Paris, London, Los Angeles, and New York! Some of Canada’s hottest upcoming films are coming for you! This August 22 (New York, Paris) and 23 (Los Angeles, London), Telefilm Canada’s Eye on TIFF events will offer coveted sneak peeks of anticipated Canadian releases making their world premieres at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
Best of all, this Eye on TIFF content is brand new and ripe for the taking. All of the initiative’s featured films are world premieres that have not yet sold their exploitation rights in the four important territories where we’ve organized these exclusive preview screenings. So if you’re an international distributor, sales agent, or exhibitor who’s been invited to one of our private Eye on TIFF networking events, consider yourself among the first in line.
Which brings us to Telefilm Canada’s Export Assistance Program, which aims to support the promotion and international marketing of Canadian productions by providing financial support to distribution companies with exploitation rights to certain Canadian movies in foreign territories, all according to eligibility conditions. For more info and to see if you might be eligible to apply, click here for a brief rundown!
Aligned with this program’s vision, Eye on TIFF is a pre-festival screening initiative that aims to support the promotion and international marketing strategy of Canadian productions abroad. It’s been turning heads in New York since 2011, Los Angeles since 2013, and expanded to Europe last year. Here are the 14 new titles!
- Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky’s Anthropocene
- Akash Sherman’s Clara
- Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown’s Edge of the Knife
- Darlene Naponse’s Falls Around Her
Jasmin Mozaffari’s Firecrackers
- Keith Behrman’s Giant Little Ones
- Bruce Sweeney’s Kingsway
- Renée Beaulieu’s Les Salopes or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin (Les salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau)
- Patricia Rozema’s Mouthpiece
- Rob Stewart’s Sharkwater Extinction
- Thom Fitzgerald’s Splinters
- Maxime Giroux’s The Great Darkened Days (La grande noirceur)
- Igor Drljaca’s The Stone Speakers
- Don McKellar’s Through Black Spruce
