TIFF 2011: Festival Opening Press Conference
Sneak Peek attended the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival Opening Press Conference @ Toronto's Hyatt Regency Hotel King Street West, July 26. This year, the 36th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), runs for 10 days, from September 8 - 18, 2011. In typical classy fashion, TIFF organizers provided the early morning media with smoked salmon, kiwis, pineapples, melons, croissants and fruit juices, in The Hyatt Mezzanine ballroom, before making their professional podium presentation. Highlights of the conference: For the first time in 36 years, TIFF will open with a documentary, screening David Guggenheim's U2 rock band feature "From The Sky Down"; Canadian director Sarah Polley will debut her new comedy "Take This Waltz"; Galas will include "Moneyball"" starring Brad Pitt. TIFF will also premier "The Descendants, starring George Clooney, directed by Alexander Payne ("Sideways"); "Pearl Jam Twenty" wi