Stars Shine at Toronto’s 29th International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival now in its 29th year, brings the biggest and brightest stars of Hollywood, the film industry and the world to this prestigious Film Festival.
TIFF takes place from September 9th to the 18th and is known and the largest and best Film Festival worldwide. The list of visitors who will be on hand in Toronto will be meeting greeting and highlighting there newest films and projects to best promote the magic of cinema. It’s evident as you walk about the city that fans and onlookers are seeing for the first time someone who’ve they only seen on the big screen walking on the streets sipping a latte’.
One of the most traveled destinations for start citing is the Four Seasons Hotel. Not only because of the four star caliber of the facilities but the on going Press Conferences for the films screening during the Festival. With over 300 films from all over the world and with over 250 premieres most all of the films have some type of representation of cast and crew. Given the high criteria of selection of the films the star, guest list is most exclusive and the promotions of the soon to be blockbusters are sure to be at Toronto, Canada. The list of over 400 accredited guest is made up of filmmakers, actors, industry insiders, and special guests, connected to Festival films and other Festival events.

Filmmakers for whom the festival is most grateful for their talent, creativity and drive are not as recognizable but some well known a just as popular.

Confirmed to attend the Toronto International Film Festival: Chris Abraham, Maren Ade, Chantal Akerman, René Alberta, Lisandro Alonso, Alejandro Amenábar, Santi Amodeo, Thom Andersen, Brad Anderson, Theo Angelopoulos, Dominic Angerame, Gregg Araki, Zev Asher, Olivier Assayas, Greg Atkins, Yvan Attal, Shona Auerbach, Bille August, Ian Gabriel, Cameron Bailey, Mark Bamford, Mike Barker, Christophe Barratier, Christopher Behnisch, Liu Bingjian, Katrin Bowen, Don Boyd, Danny Boyle, Catherine Breillat, Margaret Brown, Jim Brown, Ken Burns, Robin Campillo, Jonathan Caouette, Xan Cassavetes, Semi Chellas, Deborah Chow, Jerry Ciccoritti, Bill Condon, Sebastian Cordero, Michele Cournoyer, Paul Cox, Jay Dahl, Charles Dance, Mick Davis, Alex de la Iglesia, Claire Denis, Raymond Depardon, Arnaud Desplachin, Saul Dibb, Mélanie Dion, Anita Doron, Ziad Doueiri, Mike Dowse, Fabrice du Welz, Mickey Madoda Dube, Félix Dufour-LaperriPre, John Duigan, Juan Manuel Echavarría, Guy Edoin, Kelly Egan, Fernando Eimbcke, Petra Epperlein, Michael Epstein, Marc Evans, Éléanore Faucher, Debra Felstead, Ismaël Ferroukhi, Jay Field, Fabrizio Filippo, Morgan Fisher, Frank E. Flowers, Frédéric Fonteyne, André Forcier, Sarah Fortin, Eytan Fox, Antoine Fuqua, Florian Gallenberger, Janie Geiser, Terry George, Robert Guédiguian, Bahman Ghobadi, Hugh Gibson, Terry Gilliam, Amos Gitai, Anais Granofsky, Anthony Green, David Gordon Green, Patricio Guzman, Taylor Hackford, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Paul Haggis, Liu Hao, Dan Harris, Pierre Hébert, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Hendrik Hölzemann, Christophe Honoré, Tom Hooper, Jan Hrebejk, David Hyde, Attila Janisch, Vadim Jean, Norman Jewison, Xiao Jiang, Lawrence Jordan, Buboo Kakati, Susan Kaplan, Nicole Kassell, Lodge Kerrigan, Dylan Kidd, Lewis Klahr, Carl Knutson, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Panos Koutras, Marco Kreuzpaintner, John L'Écuyer, Bruce LaBruce, Chris Landreth, Carole Laure, Simon Lavoie, Clara Law, Sook-yin Lee, André Lehmann, Alex Levine, Mark A. Lewis, Philippe Lioret, Peter Lynch, Daniel MacIvor, Guy Maddin, Alexi Manis, Caroline Martel, Zola Maseko, Teddy Mattera, Bruce McDonald, Carlo Mazzacurati, Brad McGann, Ra'up McGee, Michael McGowan, Don McKellar, Wrik Mead, Shane Meadows, Julia Meltzer, Josué Méndez, María Victoria Menis, Dmitry Meskhiyev, Marziyeh Meshkini, Peter Mettler, Amanda Micheli, Su Qing, Mina, Roger Michell, Luis Mondoki, Wajdi Mouawad, Lúcia Murat, Safy Nebbou, Gail Noonan, Andrew Noren, Jonathan Nossiter, Guka Omarova, Joaquín Oristrell, David Ostry, François Ozon, Chazz Palminteri, Davina Pardo, Goran Paskaljevic, Pawel Pawlikowski, Alexander Payne, Brad Peyton, Enrique Piñeyro, Sally Potter, Charlotte Pryce, Michael Radford, Atiq Rahimi, Joseph Raso, Peter Raymont, Marina Razbehkina, Juan Pablo Rebella, Anna Reeves, Jacques Richard, Thomas Riedelsheimer, Velcrow Ripper, Svetozar Ristovki, Daniel Roby, Françoise Romand, Darrell James Roodt, Patricia Rozema, David O. Russell, Jean-Paul Salomé, Gus Van Sant, Hubert Sauper, Simon Sauvé, John Sayles, Volker Schlöndorff, Elida Schogt, Patricia Harris Seeley, Ousmane Sembene, Cate Shortland, Lori Silverbush, Matt Sinclair-Foreman, Yuthlert Sippapak, Michael Skolnik, Christopher Smith, Dylan Akio Smith, Carlos Sorin, Kevin Spacey, Jeffrey St. Jules, Rob Stefaniuk, John Stephenson, James D. Stern, Pablo Stoll, Deborah Stratman, Ramadan Suleman, István Szabó, David Thorne, Blaine Thurier, Johnny To, Pablo Trapero, Toni Strasburg, Michael Tucker, Alex Turner, Erik Van Looy, Agnes Varda, Alexander Voulgaris, Pantelis Voulgaris, James Wan, John Waters, David Weaver, Bruce Weber, Wim Wenders, Mark S. Wexler, Alice Wu, Xelinda Yancy, Gary Yates, Zhang Yimou, Pjer Žalica, Jia Zhang-ke, and Vilmos Zsigmond.
The Toronto International Film Festival also welcomes the best international stars.
The list of actors and special guests of the Festival, including documentary subjects, are: Joan Allen, Devon Allen, Jim Allodi, Kevin Bacon, Liane Balaban, Maria Bello, Gil Bellows, Annette Bening, Zachary Bennett, Gael García Bernal, Selma Blair, Orlando Bloom, Lindy Booth, Kate Bosworth, Benjamin Bratt, Sandra Bullock, Adam Butcher, Bill Buxton, Alex Campbell, Robin Cass, Viktoria Charalabidou, Maury Chaykin, Don Cheadle, Joan Chen, Jonas Chernick, Maggie Cheung, Thomas Haden Church, Tony Cianciotta, Michael Cohl, Joely Collins, Lynn Collins, Paddy Considine, Chris Cooper, Daniel Craig, Wendy Crewson, Billy Crudup, Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire, Timothy Daly, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Robert Dayton, Mos Def, Stephen Dillane, Emmanuelle Devos, Taye Diggs, Andrea Dorfman, Matt Dillon, Doug E. Doug, Romain Duris, Roger Ebert, Ted East, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aunjanue Ellis, Jennifer Esposito, Eve, Niv Fichman , Joseph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Joe Flaherty, Jamie Foxx, Roger Frappier, Brendan Fraser, Patrick Fugit, Allegra Fulton, Clara Furey, Bruno Ganz, Andy Garcia, Paul Giamatti, Sharon Gless, Danny Glover, John Goodman, Topher Grace, Bruce Greenwood, Paul Gross, Emily Hampshire, Martha Henry, Eva Herzigova, Emile Hirsch, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hoskins, Danny Huston, Helen Hunt, Isabelle Huppert, Michael Imperioli, Jeremy Irons, Stephanie James, Rebecca Jenkins, Clark Johnson, Gérard Jugnot, Jeffery Katzenberg, Michael Kennedy, Leleti Khumalo, Regina King, John Kirk, Johnny Knoxville, David Koh, Robert Lantos, Alexandra Maria Lara, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Damian Lewis, Laura Linney, Josh Lucas, Anthony Mackie, Virginia Madsen, Michel Maillot, Ziggy Marley, Fele Martínez, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Tom McCamus, Patrick McKenna, Emily Mortimer, Dermot Mulroney, Liam Neeson, Connie Nielsen, Nick Nolte, Charles Officer, Sandra Oh, Sophie Okonedo, Michael Ondaatje, Peter Outerbridge, Al Pacino, Ellen Page, Vincent Pastori, Bill Paxton, Sean Penn, Yolande Perrault, Gordon Pinsent, Kevin Pollack, Sydney Pollack, Sarah Polley, Franka Potente, Kelly Preston, Lucy Punch, Mark Rendall, Callum Keith Rennie, Lazar Ristovski, Joan Rivers, Jesse Rosensweet, Scott Rudin, Paul and Tatiana Rusesabagina, Zoe Saldana, Maya Sansa, Susan Sarandon, Peter Sarsgaard, Jason Schwartzman, Kyra Sedgewick, Pete Seeger, Martin Short/Jiminy Glick, Sonja Smits, Robert Stadlober, Peter Stebbings, Hilary Swank, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Charlize Theron, Henry Thomas, Kristin Scott Thomas, Kristen Thomson, Jacob Tierney, Lily Tomlin, Luis Tosar, Stuart Townsend, Tracey Ullman, Kostja Ullmann, Simone Urdl, Federico Veiroj, Ingrid Veninger, Wiebke von Carolsfeld, Mark Wahlberg, Paul Walker, Leigh Wannell, Kerry Washington, Sigourney Weaver, The Weavers, Jimmy Weber, Jennifer Weiss, Michelle Williams, Cindy Wolfe, Ziyi Zhang, and Elsa Zylberstein.

Galas with stars on hand BEING JULIA, Jeremy Irons, Annette Bening, KINSEY Liam Nelson, Laura Linney, STAGE BEAUTY Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Billy Crup, MOTERCYCLES DIARIES, HOTEL RWANDA Don Chetels, Nick Nolte, RED DUST, Hillary Swank, SILVER CITY, Chris Cooper, RAY, Jamie Foxx just to name a few. So, walk the streets of this lovely city and you may never know whom you may meet at the Toronto International Film Festival.

For more information, please go to the website at www.bell.ca/filmfest.
Keiko Beatie