TIFF UNCUT

Ridley Scott and Yaphey Kotto from our 2003 TIFF Dialogues event screening the director's cut. We bring his film back to the big screen April 7th at TIFF Bell Lightbox. For tickets visit http://tiff.net/winter2016-cinematheque/tiff-cinematheque-special-screenings-winter-2016/alien

Film scholar Sara Saljoughi discusses the role of women in Kiarostami's oeuvre and the film’s confrontation with "the look" in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema. For more information on TIFF Cinemathque saluting the Iranian master with this deluxe retrospective, check out The Wind Will Carry Us: The Films of Abbas Kiarostami. http://tiff.net/winter2016-cinematheque/the-wind-will-carry-us-the-films-of-abbas-kiarostami

Tatiana Maslany, TIFF Rising Stars alumna and critically acclaimed star of television's Orphan Black, joins Toronto International Film Festival Artistic Director Cameron Bailey for an onstage conversation about her diverse film career and rapid rise to stardom. Tatiana Maslany was born in Regina. Her starring role in Grown Up Movie Star (10) won her the World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival. Selected as a TIFF Rising Star at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, Maslany went on to earn best performance awards at the 2012 Whistler International Film Festival and the 2013 ACTRA Awards for her role as a troubled teenager in Picture Day (12). Her feature credits also include Violet & Daisy (11), The Vow (12), Blood Pressure (12), Cas and Dylan (14), and Woman in Gold (15). She has garnered numerous accolades for her role on the critically acclaimed Canadian sci-fi series Orphan Black (13–), including Critics' Choice Television Awards and Canadian Screen Awards for best lead actress in a drama series, as well as Golden Globe, Emmy, and SAG Award nominations. Maslany's upcoming feature work includes a starring role opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in Stronger (16), based on a memoir by a Boston Marathon bombing survivor; Oscar-nominated director Kim Nguyen's Two Lovers and a Bear (16) alongside Dane DeHaan; and The Other Half (16).

Irish-Canadian co-production Room, the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival’s People's Choice Award winner, has been building momentum as one of the strong award contenders of the year. Find out from the team behind the powerful film on the road to bring this novel to life and how Canada played an important role in its success.

Kiefer Sutherland joins Festival Artistic Director Cameron Bailey for an intimate discussion about his stellar career, from his formative years in Toronto and his breakout role in Daniel Petrie's acclaimed Canadian film The Bay Boy, through Hollywood stardom and his Golden Globe-, Emmy- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning work on television's 24, to his acclaimed performance in Forsaken, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September. Kiefer Sutherland was born in England and raised in Toronto. A film star since the 1980s, he gained his most recent international acclaim for his lead role as Jack Bauer on television’s 24 (06-10), winning a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for best actor in a drama series. He reprised the role in the miniseries 24: Live Another Day (14). Sutherland has been acting professionally since he was a teenager and made his lead debut in Daniel Petrie’s feature The Bay Boy (84), which earned him a Genie Award nomination for best actor. His many other film credits include Stand By Me (86), The Lost Boys (87), Young Guns (88), 1969 (88), Flatliners (90), A Few Good Men (92), The Vanishing (93), The Three Musketeers (93), A Time to Kill (95), Phone Booth (03), The Sentinel (06), Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (11), Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (12), and, alongside Donald Sutherland, Forsaken (15), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. His extensive voice work includes the English version of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (14) and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (15), from the bestselling videogame franchise. Category

Chef David Chang of the restaurant Momofuku sits down with us to talk about Ang Lee's 1994 film Eat Drink Man Woman and discuss all things food, film, and culture. Now in its fifth season, Food on Film brings together chefs, food experts and film lovers to enjoy the best in culinary cinema and conversation. Host Naomi Duguid welcomes celebrated guests from the culinary world to discuss the intersections of cinema, culture and gastronomy. Check it out at http://tiff.net/winter2016-series/food-on-film-1

As part of the fourth national poll for Canadian Open Vault: The All-Time Top Ten, Guy Maddin provided an introduction to his film My Winnipeg, and disscused a desire to mythologize his prairie hometown through a blurring of fact and fiction. This event was held on July 19, 2015 at TIFF Bell Lightbox and was hosted by Steve Gravestock, Senior Programmer, Festival Programming, TIFF. To learn more about our upcoming events at TIFF Bell Lightbox and to access the Higher Learning Digital Resource Hub, including bibliographies, filmographies, and additional resources associated with this event, visit http://www.tiff.net/higherlearning

Following a screening of his Cannes-winning film The Missing Picture, Rithy Panh discussed his approach to the representation of suffering under the Khmer Rouge regime. Co-presented with Visible Evidence, with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Consulate General of France in Toronto, the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto, the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies and the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, this Higher Learning event was held on August 20, 2015 at TIFF Bell Lightbox and was hosted by Deirdre Boyle, Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School in New York. To learn more about our upcoming events at TIFF Bell Lightbox and to access the Higher Learning Digital Resource Hub, including bibliographies, filmographies, and additional resources associated with this event, visit http://www.tiff.net/higherlearning

Digital Is So Fragile | RICK PRELINGER on the future of film by TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival)

John Landis (director of National Lampoon's Animal House, The Blues Brothers, and An American Werewolf in London) joins us for an extended introduction and post-screening discussion of this Harryhausen classic, which includes some of the stop-motion master's greatest creations.

GUILLERMO DEL TORO Interview by TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival)

http://tiff.net/education/events/robe... Following a screening of Johnny Stecchino, Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi discussed their shared lifetime of work for the Higher Learning audience of postsecondary students and faculty. Co-presented with the Italian Contemporary Film Festival and in partnership with the University of Toronto, this Higher Learning event was held on June 5, 2015 at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Visit the Higher Learning Digital Resource Hub to learn more about our upcoming events at TIFF Bell Lightbox and to access bibliographies, filmographies and additional resources associated with this event. http://www.tiff.net/education/events

In this talk, Rick Prelinger, Founder of the Prelinger Archives and Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, sets out a number of possible visions for the future of archives, and discusses some of the innovations that many cultural heritage institutions have already begun to experiment with today.

http://tiff.net/education/events/past-present-future-visualization Chris Edwards, CEO of The Third Floor, described the humble beginnings of previsualization, a digital form of storyboarding that renders lighting, camera placement and movement to allow filmmakers to visually experiment and conceptualize complex effects. Panelists included: CEO of The Third Floor Chris Edwards; visual effect supervisor at Spin VFX Wes Sewell; and John Helliker, director of SIRT (Screen Industries Research and Training Centre) and Film and Television professor at Sheridan College, who moderated. In partnership with Sheridan College, Ryerson University, CILECT, and Adobe, this Higher Learning event was held on February 15, 2015 at TIFF Bell Lightbox. To learn more about our upcoming events at TIFF Bell Lightbox and to access the Higher Learning Digital Resource Hub visithttp://www.tiff.net/higherlearning

Following the screening of short films directed by each panelist, the discussion explored the processes behind the work of three Cuban women filmmakers as they navigate their experiences as immigrants while trying to maintain a sense of collective Cuban identity. Panelists included: cinematographer, photographer and director Heidi Hassan; award winning actress Yanay Penalba,; and director Tamara Segura. The panel was moderated by Zaira Zarza, a cultural studies doctoral candidate at Queen’s University whose current research focuses on post-2000 Cuban diasporic cinemas. In collaboration with Zarza’s Roots and Routes: Cuban Diasporic Cinemas of the 21st Century project, this Higher Learning event was held on April 2, 2015 at TIFF Bell Lightbox. To learn more about our upcoming events at TIFF Bell Lightbox and to access the Higher Learning Digital Resource Hub visithttp://www.tiff.net/higherlearning