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Wide of fountain and Toronto street2. Zoom out on statue 3. Medium flags waving in breeze4. Zoom out Toronto International Film...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eNo re-use/re-sale of film/ TV clips without clearance\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eToronto, Canada, 4 September 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of fountain and Toronto street\u003cbr/\u003e2. Zoom out on statue \u003cbr/\u003e3. Medium flags waving in breeze\u003cbr/\u003e4. Zoom out Toronto International Film Festival sign \u003cbr/\u003e5. Setup shot Piers Handley, president of Toronto Film Festival \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Piers Handling, CEO, Toronto Film Festival: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Toronto festival is a big, big celebration of film. We run films from around the world, international and Canadian. And I think it's just a place where people can discover their passion for cinema. Find out what their passions are, see their passions in some of the movies we're showing, and can explore them further. We do year-round activities at the same time.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of woman looking at film list\u003cbr/\u003e8. Pan down film list\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Piers Handley/CEO, TIFF: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Jonathan Demme will be here with 'Rachel Getting Married.' 'The Duchess' is playing. We have 'One Week,' which is a Canadian film. We have 'Gene Spanley' with Peter O'Toole. There's a lot of very, very high-profile films. 'The Hurt Locker', from Kathryn Bigelow, Darren Aronofsky's film 'The Wrestler' with Mickey Rourke as a washed-out wrestler.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Medium of TIFF worker typing\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of workers helping others at administration office \u003cbr/\u003e13. Zoom out on film list\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Piers Handley, CEO, TIFF: \u003cbr/\u003e\"This year we've got about 350 films playing in the festival. About 250 feature films and another 100 shorts. And they un-spool in 35 cinemas around town.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Close Canadian flag\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide street scene\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Piers Handley/CEO, TIFF:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our big dream now, the next big step as an organisation is to actually create an institution home for the Toronto International Film Festival and all of our annual activities. We do many more things now than just the ten-day event itself.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Zoom out to wide of Bell Lightbox under construction \u003cbr/\u003e19. Zoom out from crane to wide of Bell Lightbox building \u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE (English) Piers Handley, CEO, TIFF: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's a funny story, actually. Because we were looking for a piece of land. We had no idea. We had a certain geographic area that we were looking in. And Ivan Reitman, who is a very well-known Hollywood director, who is actually Canadian, and his two sisters owned a piece of land in Toronto. And they were looking to develop it. It used to be a car wash. And it was actually a car park for many, many years. And they had had many offers from developers to come along and develop it. But the project was never right for them. And somebody put us together. It happened and it was like wonderful.\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide Roy Thomson Hall street scene\u003cbr/\u003e22. Medium Roy Thomson Hall sign advertising film festival \u003cbr/\u003e23. Close Roy Thomson Hall sign advertising film festival\u003cbr/\u003eIt's ten days of Pitt, Aniston, Knightley and other stars in Toronto. \u003cbr/\u003eThe city's international film festival kicked off with the premiere of Guy Ritchie's 'RockNRolla' and an influx of visitors. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Toronto festival is a big, big celebration of film. We run films from around the world, international and Canadian,\" film festival president and CEO Piers Handling said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"And I think it's just a place where people can discover their passion for cinema. Find out what their passions are, see their passions in some of the movies we're showing, and can explore them further. We do year-round activities at the same time.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAmong the highlights: Brad Pitt will be in town for 'Burn After Reading' and Paris Hilton may show for a documentary about her and the culture of celebrity.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Jonathan Demme will be here with 'Rachel Getting Married,'\" Handling said. \"'The Duchess' is playing. We have 'One Week,' which is a Canadian film. We have 'Gene Spanley' with Peter O'Toole. There's a lot of very, very high-profile films. 'The Hurt Locker', from Kathryn Bigelow, Darren Aronofsky's film 'The Wrestler' with Mickey Rourke as a washed-out wrestler.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe festival, unlike European fests, has no jury but it does have audience awards, and it takes all types of films. \u003cbr/\u003e\"This year we've got about 350 films playing in the festival. About 250 feature films and another 100 shorts. And they un-spool in 35 cinemas around town\" said Handling.\u003cbr/\u003eThe festival is now busy planning for the future. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Our big dream now, the next big step as an organisation is to actually create an institution home for the Toronto International Film Festival and all of our annual activities. We do many more things now than just the ten-day event itself.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe building is under construction now and should be ready in time for the 2010 Toronto Film Festival. The land it sits on came from an unlikely source. \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's a funny story, actually,\" Handling said.\"Because we were looking for a piece of land. We had no idea. We had a certain geographic area that we were looking in. And Ivan Reitman, who is a very well-known Hollywood director, who is actually Canadian, and his two sisters owned a piece of land in Toronto. And they were looking to develop it. It used to be a car wash. And it was actually a car park for many, many years. And they had had many offers from developers to come along and develop it. But the project was never right for them. And somebody put us together. 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