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2006 Toronto International Film Festival

{{Short description|Film festival}}

{{Infobox film festival

| name = 2006 Toronto International Film Festival

| image = 2006 Toronto International Film Festival poster.jpg

| caption = Festival poster

| host = Toronto International Film Festival Group

| number = 352 films

| opening = The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

| closing = Amazing Grace{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/abolitionist-tale-closes-toronto-film-festival-1.595299|title=Abolitionist tale closes Toronto film festival|access-date=20 October 2013 | work=CBC News}}

| location = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

| language = English

| date = {{Start date|2006|09|07}}–{{End date|2006|09|16}}

| website = {{URL|tiff.net}}

| previous = 2005

| next = 2007

}}

The 31st Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 7 to September 16, 2006. Opening the festival was Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn's The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, a film that "explores the history of the {{sic|Inuit people}} through the eyes of a father and daughter."{{cite web|url=http://tiff.net/pdfs/TIFF2006AnnualReport.pdf|title=Toronto International Film Festival 2006 Annual report|access-date=11 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507165712/http://tiff.net/pdfs/TIFF2006AnnualReport.pdf|archive-date=2012-05-07|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://torontoist.com/2006/08/toronto_international_film_festival_2006_everything_announced/|title=Toronto International Film Festival 2006: Everything Announced|access-date=11 October 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.reelviews.net/tiff2006/tiff2006_1.html|title=2006 TIFF Update #1: "Seein' in the Rain"|access-date=11 October 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.reelviews.net/tiff2006/tiff2006_2.html|title=2006 TIFF Update #2: "First Fruits"|access-date=11 October 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.documentary.org/magazine/festival-focus-2006-toronto-international-film-festival|title=Festival Focus: The 2006 Toronto International Film Festival|access-date=11 October 2013}}

In a press release dated June 27, 2006, twenty-six international film selections were announced which previously premiered at major film festivals worldwide. Of the films announced, twenty-five of them will receive their North American premiere.[http://www.tiffg.ca/content/mediacentre/viewrelease.asp?recordId=334 TIFF.net | Home] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930193931/http://www.tiffg.ca/content/mediacentre/viewrelease.asp?recordId=334 |date=2007-09-30 }}. Tiffg.ca. Retrieved on 2014-05-22.

Among the many anticipated films were Babel by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Volver by Pedro Almodóvar, Election 2 (a.k.a. Triad Election) by Johnnie To, The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky and The Host by Bong Joon-ho.

Bella took top prize at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival by winning the highly coveted "People's Choice Award", a distinction which puts them in the company of such Oscar-winning films as Chariots of Fire, American Beauty, Life Is Beautiful, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hotel Rwanda. Last year's winner of the "People's Choice" Award, Tsotsi, won an Oscar for best foreign-language film.

Bella marks the feature directorial debut for Alejandro Monteverde, who also co-wrote its original screenplay with Patrick Million. Bella features Manuel Perez, Angélica Aragón, Jaime Terelli and Ali Landry. Bella was produced by Sean Wolfington, Eduardo Verastegui, Leo Severino, Alejandro Monteverde and Denise Pinckley and executive produced by J. Eustace Wolfington, Ana Wolfington and Stephen McEveety. The film was financed by producers Sean Wolfingtonand Eustace Wolfington. McEveety (Braveheart, We Were Soldiers, Passion of the Christ) consulted on the script and signed on as an Executive Producer to help market the movie. Bella is McEveety's first release under his nascent Mpower Films moniker and marks his first feature since ankling Mel Gibson's Icon productions.

Awards

Awards presented during the film festival included:{{cite web|url=http://tiff.net/thefestival/about/awards/awards2006|title=2006 Toronto International Film Festival Winners|access-date=11 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112202744/http://tiff.net/thefestival/about/awards/awards2006|archive-date=2013-11-12|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://torontoist.com/2006/09/tiff_2006_awards_announced/|title=TIFF 2006: Awards Announced|access-date=11 October 2013}}

Gala Presentations

Special Presentations

Masters

Real to Reel

Discovery

Visions

Contemporary World Cinema

Midnight Madness

{{cite web|url=http://www.ultra8.ca/content2/mmhistory.html|title=History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme|access-date=October 19, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019173241/http://www.ultra8.ca/content2/mmhistory.html|archive-date=October 19, 2013}}

Vanguard

Canada First!

Short Cuts

Canada's Top Ten

TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list, its national critics and festival programmers poll of the ten best feature and short films of the year, was released in December 2006."'Away From Her' makes list of Top 10 Canadian films of 2006". Times & Transcript, December 15, 2006.

References

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External links

{{Wikinews|Film from Nunavut in Canada's north to open TIFF | Toronto International Film Festival starts tonight | Dixie Chicks show documentary at TIFF}}

{{Commons category|2006 Toronto International Film Festival}}

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070217091011/http://archives.torontointernationalfilmfestival.ca/home/default.asp Official website]
  • [http://www.tiffreviews.com/ tiffreviews.com]
  • [http://www.thegate.ca/tag/tiff-06/ TIFF 2006 coverage] at TheGATE.ca
  • [https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000659/2006 2006 Toronto International Film Festival] at IMDb

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2006

Category:2006 film festivals

Category:2006 in Toronto

Category:2006 in Canadian cinema

Category:2006 festivals in North America

Category:September 2006 in Canada