Sridevi to join world cinema's who's who at Toronto red carpet
August 22, 2012 11:09:32 AM IST
By Rajesh Kumar Singh, Glamsham Editorial
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The 37th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced its guest list that includes top-line Hollywood stars and filmmakers who will be walking the red carpet as well as presenting their films to the TIFF audience. Quite a few Indian names are in the list including Sridevi, Salman Rushdie, Gauri Shinde, Deepa Mehta, Girish Kasaravalli, Anurag Kashyap, and Shambhavi Kaul. There are reports that Shabana Aazmi will also be walking the red carpet at the TIFF as part of the star cast of THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST by Mira Nair. The festival runs through 6-16th September, 2012.
It looks like a list of 'Who's Who' of world cinema. It includes Rian Johnson, Noah Baumbach, Deepa Mehta, Derek Cianfrance, Sion Sono, Joss Whedon, Neil Jordan, Lu Chuan, Shola Lynch, Barry Levinson, Yvan Attal, Ben Affleck, Marina Zenovich, Costa-Gavras, Laurent Cantet, Sally Potter, Dustin Hoffman, Francois Ozon, David O. Russell, David Ayer, Pelin Esmer, Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, Andrew Adamson, Michael McGowan, Bahman Ghobadi, Ziad Doueiri, Alex Gibney, Stephen Chbosky, Eran Riklis, Edward Burns, Bernard Émond, Zhang Yuan, Michael Winterbottom, Mike Newell, Miwa Nishikawa, Margarethe Von Trotta, David Siegel, Scott McGehee, Gauri Shinde, Goran Paskaljevic, Baltasar Kormákur, J.A. Bayona, Rob Zombie, Peaches and Paul Andrew Williams.
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Actors expected to attend include: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jackie Chan, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Bill Murray, Robert Redford, Riz Ahmed, Ryan Gosling, Robert De Niro, Stephen Dorff, Dennis Quaid, Jennifer Connelly, Billy Bob Thornton, Bradley Cooper, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Colin Firth, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland,Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Hiroshi Abe, Elle Fanning, Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Zhang Ziyi, Greta Gerwig, Helen Hunt, Laura Linney, Logan Lerman, Keira Knightley, Mads Mikkelsen, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zhang Ziyi, Jennifer Lawrence, Julianne Moore, Greg Kinnear, Gael García Bernal, Sridevi, Saoirse Ronan, Selena Gomez, Salman Rushdie, Sam Rockwell, Naomi Watts, Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Terence Stamp and Vanessa Redgrave. Speakers and documentary subjects: Ice-T, Thelma Houston, Janice Stein, Michael Ignatieff, Angela Davis, Slavoj Žižek and Snoop Lion.
Apart from the above names, the following filmmakers will also be present during the festival - Lenny Abrahamson, Gabriel Abrantes, Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, Ashim Ahluwalia, John Akomfrah, Hala Alabdalla, Henry Alex Rubin, Dan Algrant, Paul Thomas Anderson, Nicolaj Arcel, Dante Ariola, Rodney Ascher, Olivier Assayas, Rowan Athale, Yvan Attal, Stephane Aubier, Jacques Audiard, Benjamín Ávila, David Ayer, Licínio Azevedo, Ramin Bahrani, Vincent Bal, Vasan Bala, Jeremy Ball, Dibakar Banerjee, Philip Barker, Noah Baumbach, J.A. Bayona, Marco Bellocchio, Lewis Bennett, Amy Berg, Pablo Berger, Barry Berk, Brad Bernstein, Sébastien Betbeder, Antoinette Beumer, Susanne Bier, Wang Bing, Vincent Biron, Wayne Blair, Stuart Blumberg, Billy Bob Thornton, Nicholas Bonner, Josh Boone, Patrick Bouchard, Maxence Bradley, Manon Briand, Stéphane Brizé, Edward Burns, Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, Rama Burshtein, Jason Buxton, Laurent Cantet, Andrew Capper, Juan Carlos Medina, Nick Cassavetes, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Sergio Castellitto, Stephen Chbosky, Soi Cheang, Ali Cherri, Nenad Cicin-Sain, Daniele Ciprì, Abdoul Aziz Cissé, Mary Helena Clark, Mike Clattenburg, Joe Cobden, Jem Cohen, Robert Connolly, Matthew Cooke, Catherine Corsini, Don Coscarelli, Brandon Cronenberg, Jonas D'Adesky, Lee Daniels, Nina Davenport, Deco Dawson, Brian De Palma, Leonardo di Costanzo, Xavier Dolan, Tom Donahue, Choi Dong-hoon, Ziad Doueiri, Ben Drew, Stephen Dunn, Sophie Dupuis, Ava DuVernay, Mona Eldaief, Jeroen Elsinga, Heinz Emigholz, Bernard Émond, Pelin Esmer, Habib Faisal, Sophie Fiennes, Mahdi Fleifel, Fantavious Fritz, Stephen Fung, Zézé Gamboa, Anand Gandhi, Jesper Ganslandt, Liz Garbus, José Luis García, Adrían Garcia Bogliano, Matteo Garrone, Connor Gaston, Costa-Gavras, Ernie Gehr, Bahman Ghobadi, John Gianvito, Alex Gibney, Tess Girard, Marcelo Gomes, Miguel Gomes, Michel Gondry, Dan Gordon, Danis Goulet, Sophie Goyette, Joana Hadjithomas , Asoka Handagama, Michael Haneke, Toke Constantin Hebbeln, Shai Heredia, Julio Hernández Cordón, Jorge Hinojosa, Dustin Hoffman, Toomas Hussar, Luu Huynh, Markus Imhoof, Annemarie Jacir, Andrzej Jakimowski, Sophie Jarvis, Jim Jennings, Hur Jin-Ho, Sara Johnsen, Rian Johnson, Bill Jones, Neil Jordan, Khalil Joreige, Jon Jost, Marie-Ève Juste, Chen Kaige, Girish Kasaravalli, Anurag Kashyap, Shambhavi Kaul, Mika Kaurismäki, Jean-Paul Kelly, Ryuhei Kitamura, Harmony Korine, Baltasar Kormákur and Tony Krawitz.
(Rajesh Kumar Singh is Editorial Consultant for Festivals and Markets for BollywoodTrade.com. He is a filmmaker, critic and market analyst)
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