TIFF Announces Guestlist for Canada's Top Ten

We are the City, the band behind Violent (pictured), performs at Canada's Top Ten.
Photo courtesy of TIFF.

The guest list is out for this year’s Canada’s Top Ten. In short, pretty much every filmmaker represented in the annual kudos from the Toronto International Film Festival will be on hand at TIFF Bell Lightbox during CTT expect for Canada’s Oscar contender and Canadian Screen Award frontrunner Xavier Dolan. David Cronenberg will be in the house (as if he ever leaves!) as will Keanu Reeves for an In Conversation chit chat. (Bring all your burning questions about John Wick!) Other points of interest include a free doc talk and a free retrospective screening of Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography. Hobnobbers will especially want to take note of the Canada Cocktail Party, which boast a performance by We Are the City, the band behind the CTT selection Violent, and an art installation by CTT alumni Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver, the minds behind last year’s cracked-out CTT selection Asphalt Watches.

The Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival schedule and expected guests: 

Friday, January 2
7 p.m. Monsoon—in person: director Sturla Gunnarsson

Saturday, January 3
3 p.m.  Monsoon—in person: director Sturla Gunnarsson
6 p.m.  Félix et Meira (Felix & Meira)—in person: director Maxime Giroux
8:45 p.m. Mommy

Sunday, January 4
4 p.m. Félix et Meira (Felix & Meira)—in person: director Maxime Giroux
6:45 p.m. Sol
9 p.m  Mommy

Monday, January 5
6 p.m.   Sol—in person: director Marie-Hélène Cousineau
8:30 p.m.  Tu dors Nicole—in person: director Stéphane Lafleur

Tuesday, January 6
3 p.m. Tu dors Nicole—in person: director Stéphane Lafleur
6 p.m.  Violent—in person: director Andrew Huculiak
8:45 p.m  In Her Place—in person: director Albert Shin

Wednesday, January 7
3 p.m. Violent—in person: director Andrew Huculiak
7 p.m. Canada Cocktail Party—in person: Canada’s Top Ten filmmakers and special guests. The party includes a performance by We Are the City (the band behind the Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival selection Violent), and an installation by Canada’s Top Ten alumni Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver (Asphalt Watches).

Thursday, January 8
3 p.m. In Her Place—in person: director Albert Shin

Friday, January 9
12 p.m. Higher Learning panel discussion | FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
     -The Rules of Engagement: Documentary Filmmaking in Canada

     -panelists: directors Bonnie Sherr Klein (Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography), Harold Crooks (The Price We Pay), Elle Máijá Tailfeathers (Bihttoš) and Candy Fox (Backroads), and producer Ina Fichman (Monsoon); moderator: Rebecca Sullivan, director of the Institute for Gender Research at the University of Calgary and author of a new monograph on Klein's film.

2:30 p.m. Canadian Open Vault: Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography | FREE
                     in person: director Bonnie Sherr Klein and author Rebecca Sullivan

6 p.m. Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival Student Shorts Programme
                     Backroads—in person: director Candy Fox
                     Dinner Time—in person: director Alexander Mainwaring
                     Elpis—in person: director Akreta Saim
                     Fallow—in person: director Breanna Cheek
                     La dernière danse sur la Main (Last Dance on the Main)—in person: director Aristofanis Soulikias
                     Lifers—in person: director Joel Salaysay
                     Light—in person: director Yassmina Karajah
                     Never Stop Cycling—in person: director Colin Lepper
                     Running Season—in person: director Grayson Moore
                    Tomonster—in person: director Pui Ka Wong

9 p.m.          Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival Shorts Programme
                    Bihttoš (Rebel)—in person: director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
                    Bison—in person: director Kevan Funk
                    La Coupe (The Cut)—in person: director Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
                    Cutaway—in person: director Kazik Radwanski            
                    Day 40—in person: director Sol Friedman       
                    Kajutaijuq: The Spirit That Comes—in person: director Scott Brachmayer           
                    Mynarski Death Plummet—in person: director Matthew Rankin
                    Sleeping Giant—in person: director Andrew Cividino  
                    Still—in person: director Slater Jewell-Kemker
                    The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer—in person: director Randall Lloyd Okita

Saturday, January 10
12 p.m.   The Price We Pay—in person: director Harold Crooks
3 p.m.  In Conversation With... Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis—in person: Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis and Cameron Bailey
6 p.m.   Maps to the Stars
9 p.m.  Corbo—in person: director Mathieu Denis

Sunday, January 11
12 p.m. Corbo—in person: director Mathieu Denis
3 p.m.  In Conversation With... Keanu Reeves—in person: Keanu Reeves and Cameron Bailey
6 p.m.  The Price We Pay—in person: director Harold Crooks
9:15 p.m.  Maps to the Stars—in person: director David Cronenberg. This screening is co-presented by
                    the Directors Guild of Canada

The Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival expected guests at The Cinematheque in Vancouver:

Sunday, January 18
6 p.m.  In Conversation With... Sandra Oh—in person: Sandra Oh, director Ann Marie Fleming
                  (Window Horses) and Cameron Bailey.

Please visit http://tiff.net/festivals/ctt14 for more information