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The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, stylized as tiff.) is a publicly attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2012, 372 films from 72 countries were screened at 34 screens in downtown Toronto venues, welcoming an estimated 400,000 attendees, over 4000 of whom were industry professionals.〔http://s3.amazonaws.com/tiff-prod/press_releases/155/Festival%202013%20dates_original.pdf?1352499259〕 TIFF starts the Thursday night after Labour Day (the first Monday in September in Canada) and lasts for eleven days. 2015 saw approximately 473,000 attendees, 5,400 industry professionals, and 1,200 journalists.〔http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2015/09/20/tiff-2015-closes-with-love-for-best-audience-in-the-world.html〕 Founded in 1976, TIFF is now one of the most prestigious events of its kind in the world. In 1998, ''Variety'' magazine acknowledged that TIFF "is second only to Cannes in terms of high-profile pics, stars and market activity." In 2007, ''Time'' noted that TIFF had "grown from its place as the most influential fall film festival to the most influential film festival, period." This is partially the result of TIFF's ability and reputation for generating "Oscar buzz". Notable films to have had their world or North American premiere at Toronto include ''Chariots of Fire'', ''The Big Chill'', ''Husbands and Wives'', ''Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould'', ''Downfall'', ''Sideways'', ''Crash'', ''The King's Speech'', ''Moneyball'', ''Silver Linings Playbook'', ''Argo'', and ''Dallas Buyers Club''. ==Background== The Toronto International Film Festival, originally known as The Festival of Festivals, was founded by William Marshall, Henk van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl.〔()〕 Piers Handling has been the festival's director and CEO since 1994, while Noah Cowan became co-director of TIFF in 2004. In late 2007, Cowan became the artistic director of TIFF Bell Lightbox, while long-time programmer Cameron Bailey succeeded as co-director; as of 2013, Bailey also holds the position of artistic director.〔("Cameron Bailey named artistic director of Toronto International Film Festival" ). ''National Post'', March 14, 2012.〕 TIFF was once centered on the Yorkville neighbourhood, but the Toronto Entertainment District later gained a greater level of prominence. As of 2013, TIFF's primary focus is independent cinema, and the festival features retrospectives of national cinemas and individual directors, highlights of Canadian cinema, and a variety of African, South American, and Asian films. In particular, the world premieres of a number of Indian films have occurred at TIFF. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Toronto International Film Festival」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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