Th International Financing Forum (Iff) will be held at this year's Tiff by the Ontario Media Development Corporation (Omdc), now in its 8th edition the annual event will bring the best Canadian and international producers to an expectant group of industry executives, sales agents, financiers, and distributors.
During the two-day networking program, taking place September 8tha and 9th, 40 feature film projects will be get this invaluable exposure. Twenty-one of these potential works are Canadian, the rest represent 15 international markets from around the globe which include Australia, Bulgaria, England, Germany, India, Finland, France, Israel, Japan, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, and The United State.
Via more than 682 meetings scheduled for Iff 2013 the selected projects will have the chance to be connected with over 30 international companies :
Bankside Films, Big Beach Films,
Cinetic Media, eOne Entertainment, Film4, FilmNation,
IFC Films/Sundance Selects, K5 Media Group,
ICM Partners, Kickstarter,
Magnolia, The Match Factory, Nordisk, Participant Films, Parts & Labor Films, Protagonist Pictures, River Road Entertainment, See-Saw Films, TF1, Voltage,
Wild Bunch, and William Morris Endeavor, among other top film companies.
Canadian producers/projects include:
• Toronto producer
David Cormican of
Don Carmody Productions with romantic comedy,
The Jane Austen Marriage Manual, written by internationally best-selling novelist
Kim Izzo (The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Decorum)
• Vancouver’s
Trish Dolman and
Christine Haebler (Hector and The Search For Happiness starring Simon Pegg) with
Nick Broomfield’s ( Kurt and Courtney) fiction feature film directorial debut,
The Catastrophist, to star
Freida Pinto,
John C. Reilly, and
Dana Stevens• Toronto producer,
Frank Siracusa with murder-mystery, The Bird Artist, with
Baltasar Kormákur (2 Guns with
Denzel Washington and
Mark Wahlberg) at the helm, written by Malcolm McRury (
The Man Without A Face, Deadwood)
• International projects include:
• Award-winning Iranian director, novelist, human rights activist,
Mohsen Makhmalbaf (award-winning
Gabbeh, Iran’s submission for 70th Academy Awards®) with The President from U.K. producers,
Mike Downey (
Deathwatch) and Sam Taylor (
Before The Rain)
• Netherlands producers
Pierre Spengler and
Laurence Lamers (1995 Palme d’Or Winner –
Underground;
Superman I and II) with historical-drama, Orestes, with
Freddie Highmore,
Susan Lynch and
Alan Cumming attached to star
• Finnish producer,
Tero Kaukomaa (2000 Palme d’Or winner,
Dancer in the Dark and award-winning
Iron Sky) with Deadrise, a Timo Vuerensola (
Iron Sky) horror/zombie project
• U.S. producers Mona Panchal (former Paramount executive) and
Priya Swaminathan (head of development,
George Clooney’s Smoke House Pictures) with psychological thriller, The Incident (2013 Sundance Screenwriting and Directing labs), written and to be directed by
Jan Kwiecinski (Vice Films distributed,
Fawns).
Some of the recent successful projects supported in previous years by the Iff include the 2011 Academy Award nominated film
Incendies by
Denis Villeneuve who returns to Toronto with two films
Prisoners and
Enemy , David Michod's Animal Kingdom, and more recently Wadjda, the first Saudi Arabian feature film from a female director, which opens in the U.S on September 13th.
