2004 Toronto International Film Festival
2004 Toronto International Film Festival Festival poster
Opening film Being Julia [ 1] Closing film 5x2 Location Toronto , Ontario , Canada Hosted by Toronto International Film Festival Group No. of films328 films Festival date September 9, 2004 (2004-09-09 ) –September 18, 2004 (2004-09-18 ) Language English Website tiff .net
The 29th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 9 through September 18. The festival screened 328 films of which 253 were features and 75 were shorts (148 of the films screened were in a language other than English).[ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
Awards
No first or second runners-up were officially named for the People's Choice Award; however, festival director Piers Handling did provide the media with a list of numerous other films that had been in the running, including Crash , Gunner Palace , I, Claudia , Up and Down , 3-Iron , Ma Mère , The Holy Girl , Red Dust , Brides , Saving Face and Sideways .[ 8]
Programmes
Canada First
Canadian Open Vault
Canadian Retrospective
Contemporary World Cinema
Dialogues: Talking with Pictures
Discovery
Masters
Midnight Madness
[ 9]
National Cinema Program
Planet Africa
Real to Reel
Short Cuts Canada
Special Presentations
Special events
Viacom Galas
Visions
Wavelengths
Canada's Top Ten
The festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list was announced in December.[ 10]
Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time
In 2004 a new Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time list was made, an exercise previously carried out in 1984 and 1993.[ 11]
References
^ "2004 TIFF Update #1: "Laying to Rest the Summer of Discontent" " . Retrieved October 19, 2013 .
^ "2004 Toronto International Film Festival Annual report" (PDF) . Retrieved October 11, 2013 .
^ "Impressive line-up for Toronto Film Festival" . The Sydney Morning Herald . August 27, 2004. Retrieved October 11, 2013 .
^ "29th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage" . Retrieved October 11, 2013 .
^ "2004 Toronto International Film Festival Winners" Archived 2013-11-12 at the Wayback Machine . tiff.net , October 11, 2013.
^ "Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine . tiff.net , October 11, 2013.
^ "TIFF Awards" Archived 2013-11-12 at the Wayback Machine . movies.about , October 11, 2013.
^ Liam Lacey, "Hotel Rwanda wins top festival prize" . The Globe and Mail , September 20, 2004.
^ "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme" . Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved October 19, 2013 .
^ "Best films tells diverse stories; Top Ten Canadian movies honoured New filmmakers being recognized". Toronto Star , December 15, 2004.
^ "Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time Archived 2013-10-12 at the Wayback Machine ," The Canadian Encyclopedia , 2012, URL accessed 28 April 2013.
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