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2007 Toronto Film Festival

June 28th, 2013 |

Author: davidrwalker

2007 Toronto International Film Festival Winners

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) takes place every year in September in Toronto, Canada.
Films which premiere at Toronto are often nominated for Academy Awards the following year.

TIFF does not hand out individual prizes for Best Actor or Actress but focuses on amongst others the following awards:
People’s Choice Award & Best Canadian Feature Film

Opening Night Film: Fugitive Pieces directed by Jeremy Podeswa, starring Robbie Kay, Monika Schurmann, Nina Dobrev, Stephen Dillane, Rosamund Pike & Rade Serbedzija

People’s Choice Award: Eastern Promises directed by David Cronenberg starring Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl & Sinead Cusack

Best Canadian Feature Film: My Winnipeg A Documentary directed by Guy Maddin, starring Ann Savage, Louis Negin, Amy Stewart

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Toronto_International_Film_Festival

Posted in David Cronenberg, Guy Maddin, Jeremy Podeswa, Toronto |

Tags: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Monika Schurmann, Naomi Watts, Nina Dobrev, Rade Serbedzija, Robbie Kay, Rosamund Pike, Sinead Cusack, Stephen Dillane, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel |

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