2000 Toronto International Film Festival

The 2000 Toronto International Film Festival, the 25th annual festival, ran from September 7 to September 16, 2000. Along with special events to commemorate the anniversary, there were a total of 330 films screened. There was a special screening of Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky featuring musical accompaniment by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Also, 25 digital video shorts were made by attending filmmakers.[2][3][4]

2000 Toronto International Film Festival
Festival poster
Opening filmStardom[1]
LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted byToronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films330 films and 25 shorts
Festival dateSeptember 7, 2000 (2000-09-07)–September 16, 2000 (2000-09-16)
LanguageEnglish
Websiteweb.archive.org/web/20010203223900/http://e.bell.ca/filmfest/2000/index.asp

Awards edit

Award[5][6][7][8] Film Director
People's Choice Award Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ang Lee
Discovery Award (tie) George Washington David Gordon Green
Discovery Award (tie) 101 Reykjavík Baltasar Kormákur
Best Canadian Feature Film Waydowntown Gary Burns
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation Maelström Denis Villeneuve
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation Ginger Snaps Karen Walton (writer)
Best Canadian First Feature Film The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge Philippe Falardeau
Best Canadian First Feature Film - Special Jury Citation Red Deer Anthony Couture
Best Canadian Short Film The Hat (Le Chapeau) Michèle Cournoyer
Best Canadian Short Film - Special Mention Ernest Keith Behrman
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award Bangkok Dangerous Pang Fat & Oxide Pang Chun

Programmes edit

Gala Presentations edit

Special Presentations edit

Masters edit

Perspective Canada edit

Contemporary World Cinema edit

Discovery edit

Planet Africa edit

Real to Reel edit

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures edit

25th Anniversary Special Events edit

The Bloomberg Tribute to Stephen Frears

Year 1 edit

Beckett on Film edit

Preludes edit

Preludes was a special one-off program of ten short films by Canadian film directors, commissioned by TIFF to celebrate its 25th anniversary.[9] The Preludes films were also subsequently screened on the web separately from their screenings at TIFF, on a platform funded by Bell Canada.[10]

Spotlight: Robert Beavers edit

Canadian Open Vault edit

Midnight Madness edit

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References edit

  1. ^ "2000 TIFF Festival Daily Update #1: "The Fall Through Summer's Back Door: An Overview of the 2000 TIFF"". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  2. ^ "TORONTO 2000: 25th Toronto Fest Announces Lineup: Bigger, Longer and Uncut". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  3. ^ "25th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  4. ^ "25th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  5. ^ "2000 Awards" (Press release). Toronto International Film Festival. 2000-09-17. Archived from the original on 2001-05-28. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
  6. ^ "Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 11, 2013.
  7. ^ Tamsen Tillson (2000-09-18). "'Tiger' takes Toronto aud kudos". Variety. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
  8. ^ "TORONTO 2000 UPDATE: 25th Toronto International Film Festival Award Winners". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  9. ^ Marc Glassman, "Preludes". Take One, Vol. 30 (Winter 2001). pp. 43-44.
  10. ^ Peter Howell, "Downstreaming without a paddle; Fest shorts on the Web ain't nothing like the real thing". Toronto Star, November 15, 2000.
  11. ^ "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved October 19, 2013.

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