2010 Toronto International Film Festival

2010 Toronto International Film Festival
Festival poster
Opening filmScore: A Hockey Musical[1]
Closing filmLast Night
LocationToronto, Canada
AwardsThe King's Speech (People's Choice Award)
Hosted byToronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films258 features, 81 shorts
Festival dateSeptember 9, 2010 (2010-09-09)–September 19, 2010 (2010-09-19)
LanguageEnglish
Websitehttp://www.tiff.net/

The 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival, (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 19, 2010.[2] The opening night gala presented Score: A Hockey Musical, a Canadian comedy-drama musical film. Last Night closed the festival on September 19.

The TIFF Bell Lightbox had its formal opening on September 12, 2010, during the festival. This shot was taken the day before the opening.

2010 TIFF included 258 feature films, down from 264 in 2009. However, the number of short films at the 2010 festival increased to 81 (compared to 70 in 2009), making the total number of films 339, five more than in 2009.[3][4]

Of the feature films, TIFF claims that 112 are world premieres, 24 are international premieres (i.e. the first screening outside the film's home country), and 98 are North American premieres.[3] (In fact, some of the so-called premieres screened at the Telluride Film Festival before TIFF.[5])

Awards

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Award[6][7] Film Director
People's Choice Award The King's Speech Tom Hooper
People's Choice Award Runner Up The First Grader Justin Chadwick
People's Choice Midnight Madness Stake Land Jim Mickle
People's Choice Midnight Madness Runner Up Fubar 2 Michael Dowse
People's Choice Documentary Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie Sturla Gunnarsson
People's Choice Documentary Runner Up Nostalgia for the Light Patricio Guzmán
Best Canadian Short Film Little Flowers (Les Fleurs de l'âge) Vincent Biron
Best Canadian First Feature Film High Cost of Living Deborah Chow
City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian Feature Film Incendies Denis Villeneuve
FIPRESCI Prize for the Discovery Beautiful Boy Shawn Ku
FIPRESCI for Special Presentations L'Amour Fou Pierre Thoretton

Programmes

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Gala Presentations

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
The Bang Bang Club Steven Silver Canada, South Africa
Barney's Version Richard J. Lewis Canada, Italy
A Beginner's Guide to Endings Jonathan Sobol Canada
Black Swan Darren Aronofsky United States
Casino Jack George Hickenlooper Canada
The Conspirator Robert Redford United States
The Debt John Madden United States
The Housemaid Im Sang-soo South Korea
Janie Jones David M. Rosenthal United States
The King's Speech Tom Hooper United Kingdom, Australia
Last Night Massy Tadjedin United States, France
Little White Lies Les Petits Mouchoirs Guillaume Canet France
Peep World Barry Blaustein United States
Potiche François Ozon France
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town Thom Zimny United States
Sarah's Key Elle s'appelait Sarah Gilles Paquet Brenner France
Score: A Hockey Musical Michael McGowan Canada
The Town Ben Affleck United States
The Way Emilio Estevez United States
West is West Andy De Emmony United Kingdom

Special Presentations

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
127 Hours Danny Boyle United States
AMIGO John Sayles United States
L'Amour fou Pierre Thoretton France
Another Year Mike Leigh United Kingdom
Beginners Mike Mills United States
The Big Picture L'Homme qui voulait vivre sa vie Éric Lartigau France
Biutiful Alejandro González Iñárritu Mexico, Spain
Blue Valentine Derek Cianfrance United States
Bombay Diaries Dhobi Ghat Kiran Rao India
Brighton Rock Rowan Joffé United Kingdom
Buried Rodrigo Cortés Spain
Conviction Tony Goldwyn United States
Cirkus Columbia Danis Tanović Bosnia and Herzegovina
Deep in the Woods Promenons-nous dans les bois Benoît Jacquot France
Easy A Will Gluck United States
Everything Must Go Dan Rush United States
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie Sturla Gunnarsson Canada
Good Neighbours Jacob Tierney Canada
Gorbaciof Stefano Incerti Italy
Heartbeats Les Amours imaginaires Xavier Dolan Canada
Henry's Crime Malcolm Venville United States
Hereafter Clint Eastwood United States
The House by the Medlar Tree Malavoglia Pasquale Scimeca Italy
I'm Still Here Casey Affleck United States
I Saw the Devil 악마를 보았다 Kim Jee-woon South Korea
The Illusionist L'Illusioniste Sylvain Chomet France, United Kingdom
In a Better World Hævnen Anders Thomas Jensen Denmark
Incendies Denis Villeneuve Canada
It's Kind of a Funny Story Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck United States
Jack Goes Boating Philip Seymour Hoffman United States
Julia's Eyes Los ojos de Julia Guillem Morales Spain
The Last Circus Balada triste de trompeta Álex de la Iglesia Spain, France
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen Andrew Lau Hong Kong
Let Me In Matt Reeves United Kingdom, United States
Lope Andrucha Waddington Spain, Brazil
Love Crime Crime d'amour Alain Corneau France
Made in Dagenham Nigel Cole United Kingdom
Miral Julian Schnabel France, India, Israel, Italy, Palestine, United States
Mothers Majki Milcho Manchevski Macedonia, France, Bulgaria
Never Let Me Go Mark Romanek United Kingdom
Norwegian Wood Noruwei no Mori Tran Anh Hung Japan
Outside the Law Hors-la-loi Rachid Bouchareb France, Algeria, Tunisia, Belgium
Passione John Turturro Italy
Passion Play Mitch Glazer United States
The Poll Diaries Poll Chris Kraus Germany
Rabbit Hole John Cameron Mitchell United States
Repeaters Carl Bessai Canada
Rio Sex Comedy Jonathan Nossiter France, Brazil
A Screaming Man Un homme qui crie Mahamat-Saleh Haroun France, Belgium, Chad
Special Treatment Sans queue ni tête Jeanne Labrune France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Stone John Curran United States
Submarine Richard Ayoade United Kingdom
Tamara Drewe Stephen Frears United Kingdom
That Girl in Yellow Boots Anurag Kashyap India
Trigger Bruce McDonald Canada
The Trip Michael Winterbottom United Kingdom
Trust David Schwimmer United States
What's Wrong With Virginia Dustin Lance Black United States
The Whistleblower Larysa Kondracki Canada, Germany
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Woody Allen United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Masters

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
13 Assassins Jūsannin no Shikaku Takashi Miike Japan
Erotic Man Jørgen Leth Denmark
Essential Killing Jerzy Skolimowski Poland
Film Socialisme Jean-Luc Godard France
I Wish I Knew 海上传奇 Jia Zhang-ke China
Mysteries of Lisbon Mistérios de Lisboa Raúl Ruiz Portugal, France
Nostalgia for the Light Nostalgia de la luz Patricio Guzmán France, Germany, Chile
Poetry Si Lee Chang-dong South Korea, France
Roses à crédit Amos Gitai France
Route Irish Ken Loach United Kingdom, France, Belgium
The Sleeping Beauty La belle endormie Catherine Breillat France
The Strange Case of Angelica O Estranho Caso de Angélica Manoel de Oliveira Portugal
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Lung Bunmi Raluek Chat Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand

Midnight Madness

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Bunraku Guy Moshe United States
The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman Dāo Jiàn Xiào Wuershan China, Hong Kong, United States
Fire of Conscience 火龍 Dante Lam Hong Kong, China
Fubar II Michael Dowse Canada
Insidious James Wan Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Red Nights Les Nuits rouges du Bourreau de Jade Julien Carbon, Laurent Courtiaud France, Hong Kong
Stake Land Jim Mickle United States
Super James Gunn United States
Vanishing on 7th Street Brad Anderson United States
The Ward John Carpenter United States

Canada First!

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Amazon Falls Katrin Bowen Canada
Daydream Nation Mike Goldbach
High Cost of Living Deborah Chow
Oliver Sherman Ryan Redford
Suspicions Jaloux Patrick Demers
You Are Here Daniel Cockburn

Canadian Open Vault

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
A Married Couple Allan King Canada

City to City

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
10 to 11 11'e 10 kala Pelin Esmer Turkey, France, Germany
40 Emre Sahin Turkey
Block-C Zeki Demirkubuz Turkey
Dark Cloud Theron Patterson Turkey
Distant Uzak Nuri Bilge Ceylan Turkey
Hair Tayfun Pirselimoğlu Turkey
The Majority Seren Yüce Turkey
My Only Sunshine Reha Erdem Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria
September 12 Özlem Sulak Turkey, Germany
Somersault in a Coffin Tabutta Rövaşata Dervis Zaim Turkey

Contemporary World Cinema

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
22nd of May Tweeëntwintig mei Koen Mortier Belgium
Africa United Debs Gardner-Paterson United Kingdom
Aftershock Feng Xiaogang China
All About Love De xian chao fan Ann Hui Hong Kong
Anything You Want Todo lo que tú quieras Achero Mañas Spain
Bad Faith Ond tro Kristian Petri Sweden
Behind Blue Skies Himlen är oskyldigt blå Hannes Holm Sweden
Black Ocean Noir océan Marion Hänsel Belgium, France, Germany
Blessed Events [fr] Glückliche Fügung Isabelle Stever [de] Germany
Break Up Club 分手說愛你 Barbara Wong Hong Kong
Carancho Pablo Trapero Argentina, Chile, Spain, France, South Korea
Chico & Rita Chico y Rita Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal, Tono Errando Spain, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Hungary, Philippines
Crying Out À l'origine d'un cri Robin Aubert Canada
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame 狄仁傑之通天帝國 Tsui Hark China, Hong Kong
The Edge Kray Alexei Uchitel Russia
Even the Rain También la lluvia Icíar Bollaín Spain, Mexico, France
The First Grader Justin Chadwick United Kingdom, United States, Kenya
The Fourth Portrait 第四張畫 Chung Mong-Hong Taiwan
Home for Christmas Hjem til jul Bent Hamer Norway
How I Ended This Summer Kak ya provyol etim letom Alexei Popogrebsky Russia
The Human Resources Manager hliḥuto shel Ha'Memuneh al Mash'abey Enosh Eran Riklis Israel
The Hunter Shekarchi Rafi Pitts Iran
I Am Slave Gabriel Range United Kingdom
Jucy Louise Alston Australia
Lapland Odyssey Napapiirin sankarit Dome Karukoski Finland
Late Autumn Manchu Kim Tae-yong South Korea
Leap Year Año bisiesto Michael Rowe Mexico
Life, Above All Oliver Schmitz South Africa
The Light Thief Svet-Ake Aktan Arym Kubat Kyrgyzstan
Mamma Gógó Fridrik Thor Fridriksson Iceland
Matariki Michael Bennett New Zealand
The Matchmaker פעם הייתי Avi Nesher Israel
Meek's Cutoff Kelly Reichardt United States
Modra Ingrid Veninger Canada
My Joy Счастье моё Sergei Loznitsa Germany, Netherlands, Ukraine
Neds Peter Mullan United Kingdom, France, Italy
A Night for Dying Tigers Terry Miles Canada
Of Gods and Men Des hommes et des dieux Xavier Beauvois France
Oki's Movie Ok-hi-eui Yeonghwa Hong Sangsoo South Korea
Outbound Periferic Bogdan George Apetri Romania
Route 132 Louis Bélanger Canada
Sensation Tom Hall Ireland
Silent Souls Овся́нки Aleksei Fedorchenko Russia
Small Town Murder Songs Ed Gass-Donnelly Canada
The Solitude of Prime Numbers La solitudine dei numeri primi Saverio Constanzo Italy
State of Violence Khalo Matabane South Africa, France
Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project Szelíd teremtés: A Frankenstein-terv Kornél Mundruczó Hungary
Tracker Ian Sharp United Kingdom, New Zealand
Three Drei Tom Tykwer Germany
White Irish Drinkers John Gray United States
Womb Benedek Fliegauf Germany, Hungary, France

Vanguard

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
At Ellen's Age [de] In Alter von Ellen Pia Marais Germany
The Christening Chrzest Marcin Wrona Poland
Cold Fish Tsumetai Nettaigyo Sion Sono Japan
Confessions Kokuhaku Tetsuya Nakashima Japan
Easy Money Snabba cash Daniel Espinosa Sweden
A Horrible Way to Die Adam Wingard United States
Kaboom Gregg Araki United States, France
L.A. Zombie Bruce LaBruce Germany, United States
Microphone ميكروفون Ahmad Abdalla Egypt
Monsters Gareth Edwards United Kingdom
Our Day Will Come Notre jour viendra Romain Gavras France

Discovery

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
As If I Am Not There Kao da me nema Juanita Wilson Ireland, Macedonia, Sweden
Attenberg Athina Rachel Tsangari Greece
Autumn Harud Aamir Bashir India
Beautiful Boy Shawn Ku United States
Blame Michael Henry Australia
The Call Il richiamo Stefano Pasetto Italy, Argentina
Ceremony Max Winkler United States
Dirty Girl Abe Sylvia United States
Girlfriend Justin Lerner United States
Griff the Invisible Leon Ford Australia
Half of Oscar La mitad de Oscar Manuel Martin Cuenca Spain, Cuba
Inside America Barbara Eder Austria
Look, Stranger Arielle Javitch United States
Mandoo Ebrahim Saeedi Iraq
Marimbas from Hell Marimbas del Infierno Julio Hernández Cordón Guatemala, France, Mexico
Norberto's Deadline Norberto apenas tarde Daniel Hendler Uruguay, Argentina
October Octubre Diego Vega, Daniel Vega Peru
The Piano in a Factory Gang de qin Zhang Meng China
Pinoy Sunday Táiběi Xīngqítiān Wei-Ting Ho Taiwan
The Place in Between Notre Étrangère Sarah Bouyain Burkina Faso
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale Jalmari Helander Finland
Sandcastle Boo Junfeng Singapore
Soul of Sand Pairon Talle Sidharth Srinivasan India
Viva Riva! Djo Tunda Wa Munga Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wasted on the Young Ben C. Lucas Australia
What I Most Want Lo que más quiero Delfina Castagnino Argentina
Zephyr Zefir Belma Bas Turkey

Future Projections

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro Douglas Gordon United Kingdom
Angst Essen/Eat Fear Ming Wong Germany
HEAVENHELL Chris Chong Chan Fui, Yasuhiro Morinaga Malaysia
In Love for the Mood Ming Wong Singapore
Jeanne Martin Arnold Austria
Journey to the Moon William Kentridge South Africa
Klatsassin Stan Douglas Canada
Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake Perry Bard United States
Nyman with a Movie Camera Michael Nyman United Kingdom
Otolith III The Otolith Group United Kingdom
Slidelength Michael Snow Canada
Soft Rains#6: Suburban Horror (part 1) Jennifer McCoy, Kevin McCoy United States
Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades Harun Farocki Germany

Real to Reel

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
ANPO: Art X War Linda Hoaglund United States
Armadillo Janus Metz Denmark
Boxing Gym Frederick Wiseman United States
Cave of Forgotten Dreams Werner Herzog United States
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Alex Gibney United States
Cool It Ondi Timoner United States
The Game of Death Le Jeu de la mort Christophe Nick, Thomas Bornot France, Switzerland
Genpin Naomi Kawase Japan
Guest Jose Luis Guerin Spain
How to Start Your Own Country Jody Shapiro Canada
Inside Job Charles Ferguson United States
Machete Maidens Unleashed! Mark Hartley Australia
The Man of a Thousand Songs William D. MacGillivray Canada
Mother of Rock: Lillian Roxon Paul Clarke Australia
Pink Saris Kim Longinotto United Kingdom
The Pipe An Piopa Risteard Ó Domhnaill Ireland
Precious Life Shlomi Eldar Israel
The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical Sarah McCarthy United Kingdom
Tabloid Errol Morris United States
Tears of Gaza Vibeke Løkkeberg Norway
When My Child is Born Guo Jing, Ke Dingding China
Windfall Laura Israel United States
!Women Art Revolution: A Secret History Lynn Hershman Leeson United States

Sprockets Family Zone

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Karla and Jonas Charlotte Sachs Bostrup Denmark
Little Sister Richard Bowen China, United States
Make Believe J. Clay Tweel United States
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures Ben Stassen Belgium

Visions

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceaușescu Andrei Ujică Romania
Brownian Movement Nanouk Leopold Netherlands, Germany, Belgium
Curling Denis Côté Canada
The Ditch Wang Bing France, Belgium
The Four Times Le quattro volte Michelangelo Frammartino Italy, Germany, Switzerland
K.364 A Journey by Train Douglas Gordon United Kingdom, Germany, France
Moscow 11:19:31 Michael Nyman United Kingdom
Mourning for Anna Trois temps après la mort d'Anna Catherine Martin Canada
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow Sophie Fiennes France
Promises Written in Water Vincent Gallo United States
Summer of Goliath Verano de Goliat Nicolás Pereda Canada, Mexico, Netherlands
A Useful Life La vida útil Federico Veiroj Uruguay

Wavelengths

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
753 Macpherson Avenue Kevin Jerome Everson United States
Anne Truitt Working Jem Cohen United States
Atlantiques Mati Diop Senegal, France
Aubade Nathaniel Dorsky United States
Bits and Pieces EYE Film Institute Netherlands Netherlands
Blow-Ups: Portrait, Tea Time, Red Curtain Helga Fanderl Germany
Blue Mantle Rebecca Meyers United States
Burning Bush Vincent Grenier Canada, United States
Cinematographie Philipp Fleischmann Austria
Color Films 1 & 2 Madison Brookshire United States
Coming Attractions Peter Tscherkassky Austria
Compline Nathaniel Dorsky United States
The Day Was a Scorcher Ken Jacobs United States
Delphine de Oliveira Friedl vom Gröller Austria
Get Out of the Car Thom Andersen United States
Hell Roaring Creek Lucien Castaing-Taylor United States
Home Movie John Price Canada
Kodachrome Days Jonas Mekas United States
Landscape, Semi-Surround Eriko Sonoda Japan
Leona Alone Oliver Husain Canada
One Eve Heller Austria
Ouverture Christopher Becks Canada, France
Pastourelle Nathaniel Dorsky United States
Photo Finish Figures Il finish delle figure Paolo Gioli Italy
Ruhr James Benning Germany, United States
Slaveship T. Marie United States
The Soul of Things Dominic Angerame United States
Tokyo-Ebisu Tomonari Nishikawa Japan
Victoria, George, Edward & Thatcher Callum Cooper United Kingdom
Water Lilies T. Marie United States

Short Cuts

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Above the Knee Greg Atkins Canada
The Adder's Bite Firas Momani
Animal Control Kire Paputts
The Camera and Christopher Merk Brandon Cronenberg
Champagne Hans Olson
The Closer You Get to Canada John Bolton
Eggcellent Martin Sokol
File Under Miscellaneous Jeff Barnaby
A Fine Young Man Kevan Funk
Green Crayons Kazik Radwanski
The High Level Bridge Trevor Anderson
Home: Life Advice Aaron Phelan
How to Rid Your Lover of a Negative Emotion Caused by You Nadia Litz
Interregnum Nick Fox-Gieg
The Legend of Beaver Dam Jerome Sable
Lipsett Diaries Theodore Ushev
Little Flowers Les Fleurs de l'âge Vincent Biron
Living History Isaac Cravit
Love. Marriage. Miscarriage. Darragh McDonald
Marius Borodine Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais
Manèges Sophie Goyette
La Métropolitaine Dan Popa
Mokhtar Halima Ouardiri
Negativipeg Matthew Rankin
The Old Ways Michael Vass
On the Way to the Sea Tao Gu
The Open Window Cam Woykin
Poudre Ky Nam Le Duc
Le Projet Sapporo Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
Sad Bear Liz Cairns, Joe LoBianco
Les Softies Emmanuel Shirinian, Russell Bennett
Sophie Lavoie Anne Émond
The Trenches La Tranchée Claude Cloutier
Tsunami, Horses and Civilization Carla Susanto
Turkey Sara St. Onge
Vapor Kaveh Nabatian
Wapawekka Danis Goulet
Warchild Caroline Monnet
Woman Waiting Antoine Bourges
yesno Brian D. Johnson

Canada's Top Ten

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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 on December 15, 2010.[8]

Feature films

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Short films

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References

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  1. ^ "TIFF: A history of opening nights". CBC News. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  2. ^ "2010 Toronto International Film Festival Annual report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 21, 2012. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Fact Sheet" (Press release). 1 September 2010. Archived from the original on 4 September 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
  4. ^ "TIFF List 2010: The Complete Toronto Film Festival Lineup". Retrieved 2013-10-10.
  5. ^ Peter Sciretta (2010-09-03). "TFF Blog: Welcome to the 37th Telluride Film Festival". /Film. Archived from the original on 7 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-08. And even then, most of the bigger films are hidden in TBA "Sneak Preview Screening" slots. This allows Telluride to secretly premiere films that are already set to "officially premiere" at other festivals like Venice, Toronto, New York and Fantastic Fest.
  6. ^ "2010 Toronto International Film Festival Winners". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
  7. ^ "TIFF Wrap-Up: The Winners, Losers, And Weirdos Of Toronto 2010". Retrieved 2013-10-10.
  8. ^ "Canada's Top Ten for 2010". Now, December 15, 2010.
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