Shortly after the film schedule for TIFF was released this year, one of our teams brought in the (uber colourful) programme. Lunch conversations inevitably steered towards which films were worth seeing but, more vocally, which would be torturous to have...
For directors and producers, a film's pitch (although just a succinct sentence or two) can pack the verbal punch needed to pique interest and sell their film to a quick-skimming festival goer. As we (ok, our guided robots) scoured through pitches for the 401 TIFF 2012 films, we spotted some compelling word choice and phrasing trends in the TIFF ’12 roster
TIFF blends talent, creativity, press and partiers from around the world. The cosmopolitan culture-clash is part of the TIFF charm of course, but how many, from where and who plays nice together? We looked a little closer at the films and the 142 country-combinations they hailed from; this is what we unearthed, along with an interesting tidbit about the polygamous France