Freida Pinto

“You put yourself in this horrible position, and you’re not being paid anything, to please this guy”

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Unlike Cannes, Berlin and Venice, TIFF does not have an official competition, but there’s a passel of sponsored prizes given out, the most significant being those for best Canadian feature and feature debut, and the audience award for most popular feature. You’ll notice I’m leaving out the sponsors’ names. By now we’re all very bored with sponsors’ names, which are repeated liturgically at the start of every public screening. TIFF should try to convince the corporate angels that having the festival saturated with their logos and trailers is ample enough exposure, and that the screenings would gain a touch of class benefiting all concerned, if they were introduced without the long list of corporate names. As in Cannes. But any one at TIFF would probably tell you that this is no time to jeopardize sponsorship, given that the organization that still needs another $50 million to build its new HQ, the Bell Lightbox theatre. Oops, I broke my no sponsor name rule.