The 2012 Toronto International Film Festival often helps to raise the profile of small independent films and gives wider exposure to higher-profile projects that may be in the running to compete for Oscars.
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This year the Indies did well winning some critical acclaim in the festival’s main prize sections:
- Blackberry Peoples’ Award:
- Silver Linings Playbook
- First runner-up: Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’
- Second runner-up: Eran Riklis’ ‘Zaytoun’
- Documentary: Bartholomew Cubbins’ ‘Artifact’
- Second runner-up: Rob Stewart’s ‘Revolution’
- Midnight Madness: Martin McDonagh’s ‘Seven Psychopaths’
- First runner-up: Barry Levinson’s ‘The Bay’
- The prize of the international critics (Fipresci prize)
- Francois Ozon for ‘Dans la maison’ in the Special Presentations category
- Mikael Marcimain for ‘Call Girl’ in the Discovery Program, which spotlights feature films by new and emerging directors
- The city of Toronto and Canada goose award for best Canadian feature film
- Xavier Dolan’s ‘Laurence Anyways’
- The Skyy Vodka Award for best Canadian first feature film
- A tie between Brandon Cronenberg’s ‘Antiviral’ and Jason Buxton’s ‘Blackbird’
We looked at a selection of films that seemed to be creating buzz at this year’s festival, read our reviews:
La Sirga (The Towrope) 2012 William Vega’s second feature, from Colombia
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7 Cajas (7 Boxes) 2012 Paraguayan directors Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schembori’s first feature
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Satellite Boy (2012 Australian director Catriona McKenzie’s fourth feature.
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