2 months ago 05th Sep 11:09
Some of cinemas biggest names are heading to the Toronto Film Festival, after a lack luster Venice, as the thirty third festival got underway last night.
Founded in 1976 Toronto has become one of the top festivals on the film calendar attracting big named stars and directors, but unlike Venice, Cannes and Berlin Toronto do not award any jury prizes.
This year Toronto will screen 312 film from sixty four different countries with 116 of those screenings being world premieres, but opening night belonged to Canadian filmmaker Paul Goss.
His new film Passchendaele opened the festival keeping the tradition of shining the spotlight on Canada on the opening night.
The romance/war picture follows a sergeant from the 10th Battalion wounded in Calgary during the First World War who becomes involved with a nurse of half-German origin.
When he rejoins his Battalion he promises to look out for the nurse's younger brother who has been sent to France to fight.
But Canada won't have it all their own way as Hollywood, in form of Brad Pitt and George Clooney amongst others, will descend on the festival.
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by J Smith - 12:19:42 5th Sep 2008
George said weeks ago he wasn't going.